A produção científica e o olhar dos/as profissionais do serviço social sobre os processos de trabalho no sistema prisional

Abstract

This Undergraduate Work presents as a reflective theme considerations about the work processes of Social Service professionals in the Prison System. The general objective of the study was to analyze how the work processes of Social Service professionals are constituted in the prison system of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in order to understand the purpose of professional intervention in this socio-occupational space. To this end, an exploratory research was carried out, with a qualitative focus, based on the collection of bibliographic data on academic/scientific websites and the collection of empirical data with the application of an online questionnaire to 12 social workers inserted in the aforementioned socio-occupational space. . The study was based on the critical dialectical method, using the observation technique, via the application of a data collection instrument called a guiding script and questionnaire. The results were processed via content analysis. As main results, it is highlighted that the social worker, when intervening in the prison system, must articulate the theoretical-methodological, ethical-political and technical-operative skills, in the exercise of their professional skills and duties in accordance with Law No. 8,662/93 Regulation of the Profession and the Code of Professional Ethics (1993) in meeting the demands posed by the institution and by people deprived of liberty. Demands that tend to be different, as the institution may have different goals from those deprived of freedom, as well as in confronting different expressions of social issues, such as poverty and its criminalization, unemployment, low education , violence, physical and mental illnesses, abusive use of alcohol and other drugs, discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, racism and the most diverse violations of rights, which are evident or worsened in the prison system. The prison system has particularities, which lead the professional to use, in addition to the hegemonic technical-operative instruments – such as interviews, home and institutional visits, among others – others absorbed in that institution. It is noteworthy that the social worker is inserted in a socio-occupational space in which a punitive and conservative logic in relation to prison still permeates, which interferes with the quality of work and service provided to users. Furthermore, challenges such as overcrowding in prison units, structural issues, precarious physical conditions, lack of staff and the difficulty of interdisciplinary articulation with other professionals, are notable in bibliographical and empirical surveys, reflecting in the practice and daily professional life of the individual. social worker. It is concluded that the purpose of professional practice in this socio-occupational space is to intervene in search of means to “transform” – or at least raise awareness of the need for changes – the reality of people deprived of liberty through the viability of rights, during and after serving the sentence.