Mass incarceration: advancement of restriction and
deprivation of adolescentes in Brazil
incarceration; socioeducation; adolescents; rate of
imprisonment; education.
This research results from extensive academic and
professional experience, elaborating a deep theoretical-
conceptual and practical reflection on the concept of
incarceration. Through a literature review and document
analysis, it addresses quanti-qualitatively the object of this
research: the mass restriction and deprivation of
adolescents in Brazil. A compilation and review of the
data obtained by the National (Annual) Surveys of the
System of Socio-Educational Attendance was carried out
in order to verify the rate of change and the rate of
imprisonment of adolescents in our country, since the
records of 1996. The theoretical set qualitatively confronts
the compiled and reviewed data, revealing the
governmental preference for a Penal State that incarcerates
adolescents en masse in the national territory from the
findings of the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights (IACHR) Report. It also discusses, in a critical-
reflexive way, the political genesis that feeds back the
mass incarceration of adolescents, as well as the neo-
rightist economic-philosophical current. Finally, it
presents a manifesto-conclusion and a draft of the
National Plan to Confront Mass Incarceration of
Adolescents, as a technical product resulting from this
research.