Re-orienting ‘Ndrangheta Minors. The Educational Rehabilitation in Non-places of Organized Crime

Abstract

The relationship environment-education has been and is at the center of pedagogical, sociological, anthropological reflections and today neuroscience is also concerned with it. Therefore it seems almost pleonastic to underline that there is a close relationship between environment and education, given that it is peaceful how much the latter is strongly conditioned by environmental and cultural factors. In this sense, as Piero Bertolini says, deviance or maladjustment are interpreted as a disconnection of the subject from reality, a sort of fracture of the relationship that binds the subject to the world, because the failure of intentional consciousness leads to introject behavioral models borrowed from a dystonic reality, marginal, disintegrated with respect to that of the world understood as communitas. This fracture is strongly present in young people of ‘ndrangheta and is originated by deviant educational models present in their families and in places they live in. The educational rehabilitation, aimed at repairing this separation between subject and reality, is a possible goal and the experience of the removal of minors from their families of origin confirms that the processes of cultural contamination - in accordance with the canons of phenomenological pedagogy - gives back to young people the right to autonomous and authentic identity.