A DESIGNAÇÃO “AQUELE DELINQUENTE” PARA ADOLESCENTES E JOVENS TUTELADOS NA UNIDADE EDUCACIONAL DE INTERNAÇÃO: EFEITO DE PODER E(M) COMENTÁRIOS NO FACEBOOK

Abstract

THE DESIGNATION “THAT DELINQUENT” FOR ADOLESCENTS AND TEENAGERS IN DETENTION CENTERS: EFFECT OF POWER AND/IN COMMENTS ON FACEBOOK This work deals with discourses that stigmatize adolescents and teenagers who were deprived of their freedom to comply with socio-educational measures and who start to carry the label “that delinquent” by society. The concern about the issue emerges from two motivations: 1) the teaching experience lived by the master’s student at the Educational Reformatory Department (Unidade Educacional de Internação — Unei) Laranja Doce in Dourados/MS, Brazil, and 2) the contact with a journalistic text about a rebellion occurred in 2020, published on the social network Facebook, specifically on a page belonging to the Campo Grande News website. Conceiving that the publication refers to young people who are protected by the State and considering the inviolability of the moral integrity of children, adolescents, and teenagers as also guaranteed by law, the following question is formulated: how and why do these discourses that negatively named young people and propose corporal punishment for them appear on Facebook, proliferate and have supporters in the context of the digital society? Through the established question, the general aim of the study is to analyze how these inmates are discoursivized in comments produced by internet users about the highlighted event. Fulfilling the greater purpose, the specific objectives are: a) to problematize the history of the legal framework that means between laws and decrees which supported and still support the guardianship of minors in Brazil, taking into account the context of an Unei in Mato Grosso do Sul; b) contribute to the existing theoretical framework on the specificities of the discourses that emerge in digital, around the linguistic phenomenon of designation (FOUCAULT, 1999; FOUCAULT, 2011; GUIMARÃES, 2003; BRAGA; MENEGHEL, 2017; LUNKES; SANCHO; BORGES, 2020); c) describe and interpret the Enunciative Sequences about the uttered designations and punitive acts imputed to the adolescents and young offenders by Internet users (FOUCAULT, 2014a). Proceeding with the investigation of the selected thematic object, the French Discourse Analysis is adopted, in its historical aspect. Based on a qualitative-interpretative approach, Foucault's archeogenealogy (ARAÚJO, 2008) is used as a methodology, so that the SEs selected as a corpus of the research archive (FOUCAULT, 2018) are problematized considering their conditions of possibility (FOUCAULT, 2014a). From the analysis carried out, it is argued that, even with the advent of the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the Statute of Children and Adolescents (ECA), the moral integrity of these subjects continues to be violated in the manifestations of internet users, especially in the circulation of a punitive order speech (FOUCAULT, 2014b) with the effect of power and empire. The observations made it possible to understand how such effects materialized, intensifying the discursive statements of punishment, segregation, and hatred with threats of extermination to inmate subjects under State custody. . Keywords: Discourse. Stigmatization. Delinquent. Facebook.