ADOLESCENTS IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW: REFLECTIONS ON THE PRACTICE OF INTERPROFESSIONAL TEAM IN THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH COURT

Abstract

The article discusses the role of professional in adolescents in conflict with the law and presents some aspects of the work of the multidisciplinary team (Psychologist and Social Worker) at the Court of the State of São Paulo. It focus the action with the adolescents and their families and discuss the issue considering the acenery of the service and reflects on the phenomenon “minority”, considering the situations of social exclusion in which the adolescents and their families live: early work, the boy escaped from school, child prostitution, begging, the boy living on the streets, abandoned, starved, which commits crimes, the family set in a context of denial of rights and no access to public policies and their vulnerability and social risk. The adolescent is recognized as a subject that develops from certain natural and historical circumstances, considering the economic, social and cultural context, and the approach to understand then should consider the intense physical, biological and psychological changes, related to their belonging groups, the social environment and its transit in the world of culture, especially in times of absence geographical boundaries and new communication technologies that build new patterns of sociability.

http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v26i1.3822