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The following article is a product of my master's thesis in Mental Health, where on board the social representations about the institutionalization in the juvenile criminal context. The qualitative methodology allowed regain perspective of subjects from a holistic, descriptive and analytical look, through interviews with young people who transited confinement institutions and key informants in the legal field, the social sciences and mental health, and analysis of news reports. The constant comparison method (Soneira , 2006 ) was used to construct data.
Some findings are presented around the techniques of corporate governance that, by managing bodies and production / management of mental suffering, reactualize social pain (Scribano, 2007, 2009) incorporated in the body, which originated in the structural conditions life, for the shortcomings of the state as guarantor of rights and its strong presence from a punitive aspect. Thus, institutionalization tends to build precarious subjectivities, configuring an instrument of social reproduction of the established order.These contributions invite us to think critically about the senses and practices that justify the confinement with "socio-educational" objectives, but conceal the historical-current purpose of social control over certain juvenile sectors considered dangerous and producers of risk