Trajetória do crime: Caminhos E Descaminhos De Jovens Infratores Belo Horizonte (Regional Metropolitana De Belo Horizonte/Rmbh)

Abstract

The aim of this investigation was to present an analytical discussion on the initial moment of the life-course of deviant behavior at the end of childhood or beginning of adolescence, more specifically at the ages of 13-14, based on the model by Sampson and Laub (1993;2003). It also sought to expand the knowledge of how protection occurs in the life history of each actor, intertwined by interfering social, cultural and political factors, the contexts in which these criminal actions are designed. At some moments this life-course becomes more visible as it gains publicity by the media, as a source of information of these behaviors, so disconnected from the socially accepted standard. This distancing from a desirable symbolic asset, interspersed by the different occurrences that master this new form of sociability, is rooted in individualism, in the emptying of alterity (otherness) and absence of identifying parameters, laxity of social bonds, besides the result of the association between crime and violence, which brings fear and insecurity to the population, the potential victims of the horror and unpredictability of these actions. The undue criminalization of poverty has curbed the understanding that violence is not to be attributed to a place or social class, but that it has spread to all layers and that it occurs irrespective of class, possessions, social position and is part and parcel of a cosmopolitan context, in which the rituals, habits and choices are based on an abstract play of successive transformations, whose previous pillars have crumbled down and their reconstruction, rather than being rooted in something memorable, generated totally new structures to replace the old ones, in which the rules are barely referred to; they have been undone. And, as the old makes room for the new, the new lacks the strength of tacit, collective agreements, while it is invested of individual decisions at a time adverse from sustaining pillars. Therefore, by means of a qualitative approach that has adopted as a technique for data analysis the analysis of the contents of reports, the empirical research was carried out with twenty inmates under the Socioeducational Meassure Regime (MSE) for a non-determined period of time, at the Centro Socioeducativo Santa Clara, CESESC, in Belo Horizonte/Minas Gerais-Brasil. The research also used the information collected from the official records. This research is orientated by an analysis of the meanings of the trajectory that the youth investigated, perpetrators of the crimes, imprint to the phenomenon.