Família, vínculos e rupturas: uma análise da judicialização da infância e juventude da comarca de Francisco Morato/SP

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze, through the psychosocial report form the Child and Youth Court of the district court of Francisco Morato-SP, the relation between the institutional sheltering of children and adolescents and the mechanisms of the social protection devices of the municipality. To do so, we conducted an exploratory research, with of documentary analysis procedures. The research aimed to know, from the information available in the reports, the path of the family and children/adolescents within the judiciary and the executive's public policies, identifying the continuities and ruptures in the implementation of measures of protection for children and adolescents in the situation of institutional sheltering. The work is based on the assumption that must exist a joint action between the judiciary and institutional devides for attention to the families and the child population. The fragmentation of the action of the two sectors causes disconnected actions and, therefore, induce the judicialisation. The analysis of the collected material indicated that, in fact, judiciary is an intermediary of actions that are incumbency of the public policies; it also demonstrated that the judiciary has an imposing role, having to charge repeatedly actions for social assistance services. It has also been seen that the paradigms of child and youth care did not end with the advance of ECA and that institutional sheltering measures continue to be directed towards poor families in social risk. Moreover, it was verified that the sheltering institutions have a important role within the judicialisation cases, since they do not performe effective actions which facilitate the reintegration of the child and adolescents to their families.