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In this article we analyze the prejudice experiences lived in the family context by selfdeclared university students who are gay men. The qualitative research involved the participation of five students, selected intentionally through the Snowball technique. Narrative interviews and focus groups were used as data collection instruments, and data produced were subjected to critical discourse analysis. It was found that, even if the family, in its various configurations, plays an active role in protecting its members, this does not necessarily reflect in the promotion of their individual and/or collective well-being. It occurs because when the family does not problematize the heteronormative logic, ends up reproducing it, configuring itself as a space of control and violence, albeit under the guise of care and protection. We conclude that such families (re)produce mechanisms of power based on heteronormativity and collaborate for the maintenance of hierarchies that produce subaltern modes of existence, leading to the non-acceptance, concealment and silencing of the experiences of gay men and can bring numerous losses to their mental health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research aims to understand the institutionalization process of imprisoned subjects, identifying subjective effects and strategies they use in serving the sentence. It also contextualizes the work of the Psychology professional in the Brazilian prison system and the debate with the Courts around the criminological examination. The study has a genealogical approach, using interviews and document analysis. The participants are three professionals and three inmates of a male prison located in a southern state of Brazil. The analyses showed that prison, as a total institution, provokes a rupture with the outside world and the previous reality of the inmates and that they abandon their identity and assume an institutional identity. Conducts are prescribed that legitimize hierarchies, and a language that signals to belong to the group is shared. Generally, the family is supportive, but the distance between it and the prisoners is a source of suffering for them, who create adaptation tactics for institutional coexistence. The perspective of freedom provokes feelings of joy and fear because the ex-prisoner stereotype remains with them after serving the sentence. The Criminal Execution Law provides the criminological examination in order to establish a program for the individualization of the sentence and progression of the regime but, the Federal Council of Psychology is against its elaboration by psychologists regarding the criminological prognosis of recidivism, the measurement of dangerousness, and the establishment of a causal link from the crime-offender binomial, and argues for monitoring the prisoner from the perspective of humanization, overcoming the punitive paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Program for the Eradication of Child Labour (PETI) is a social policy that aims to protect children and adolescents from seven to 15 years, and contribute to their integral development. This article discusses the implications of PETI in daily life of children, adolescents and their families, based on research conducted in Chapecó (SC) in 2013. Data were produced by means of monitoring the activities in the program and interviews with three children, an adolescent, their families and professionals. The Actor- Network Theory was used as theoretical- methodological device for the development of the study, whose results indicate the importance of PETI to the participants due to the possibility of coexistence in space considered safe, with activities that contribute to the social, emotional and educational development. However, the program does not guarantee the full participation of children and adolescents in situations of child labor, because they fail to attend it when they need help in their responsible tasks within the family. It analyzes the network that has been woven not possible an effective transformation as to eradication of child labor, requiring the connection of other actors so that parents can work, be cared home and your kids safe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]