¿Quién gobierna? Gobernamentalidad en la intervención de adolescentes infractores en el sur de Chile

Abstract

In Chile, several investigations coincide in affirming that the implementation of the Adolescent Penal Responsibility Law has failed to protect the rights of penalized youth. From the theoretical perspective of governmentality, this study aims to understand the articulation between government technologies and the subjectivization practices of adolescents with a law violation in an Assisted Freedom program in southern Chile. We used a qualitative methodology of case study of the program that consisted of interviews with staff, observation of workshops, analysis of documents and Facebook profiles of adolescents. As main results we affirm that in the program there is an articulation between the technologies that seek to govern adolescent behaviors and the practices or technologies of the self of adolescent that allows both, the maintenance of the program, and counter-behaviors of the teenagers who conflict with the law. The role of the bidding system for these programs and its relationship with the penal logic of quantifying sanctions in the production of subjects are discussed.