Life in the Logic of Exception: Violation of Rights and Abandonment

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to problematize intervention practices in the life of juveniles that serve socio educational measures of restricted freedom, from two distinct rationales: government and sovereignty. Based upon the philosophical works of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, we contemplate on how investment and disinvestment technologies directed toward life are operated. The research process developed from the analysis of official Brazilian documents related to public policies for juvenile offenders. We demonstrate that under the current paradigm of management there is a zone of in distinction between government and sovereignty that enables to establish a relation of abandonment and violation of rights with respect to the lives of youth in conflict with the law, which has been present in their lives previously to committing offenses.

 

Keywords: Abandonment, Juvenile offenders, Socio-educational detention measures.