AS REPRESENTAÇÕES SOCIAIS DE DIREITOS HUMANOS DO PRESO PARA OS AGENTES PENITENCIÁRIOS DA PENITENCIÁRIA ESTADUAL DE PONTA GROSSA - PR

Abstract

In this research we have as an object of study the social representations of the penitentiary agents of the State Penitentiary of Ponta Grossa – PR (PEPG) about the prisoner’s human rights. In a qualitative way, we used the following methodological procedures: bibliography research, documental research, naturalistic observations, a questionary with open and closed questions and a semi-structured interview whose statement were analyzed and settled in the Social Representations Theory. We performed the research in PEPG, from where we choose the penitentiary agents to participate in the semi-structured interview, and then we could to raise up the social representations about the prisoner’s human rights. All in, eight inquired people were selected among those who said that they have had a greater directed contact with the prisoners. In this way, we selected the penitentiary agents for your time of work; we choose them who have shorter, middle and longer time in their function. We also choose agents who have worked in other penitentiaries and, also, them who have worked only in the PEPG. Some of the inquired people did a course in human rights soon after their beginning as penitentiary agent, but others didn’t. Hereafter the realizations of these procedures and under the theoretical foundation of social representations, we present two main points of analysis related to the objective of the research. The first one deals with the prisoner’s human rights according to the law and the accomplishment of the penitentiary agent’s function, and the second one brings the representation of the human rights as something that shouldn’t be linked to that space. That is appropriated to the execution of the punishment, in order to loosen the punishment and to block the realization of its punitive purpose.