ESPÍRITO SANTO YOUTH REFERENCE CENTERS (CRJ): PRIORITIES OF ESTADO PRESENTE

Abstract

The Youth Reference Centers (CRJ) emerged in mid-2021/2022, linked to the Present State Program: Citizen Security in Espírito Santo, with funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). There are fourteen Centers managed by Private Hegemony Apparatuses (APHs) and focused on serving young people living in areas on the urban periphery. In this study, we conducted documentary research to map the CRJs and the APHs that manage them and reconfigure their educational content. It was possible to note the approximation of public security policies in the state (prison expansion, socio-educational and police reform) with “crime prevention” policies, as part of the same territorialized intervention platform. This process reaffirms the need for studies that address the educational function that punitive systems have been developing in their most updated forms, related to the current phase of financialization of the economy.