Em liberdade : narrativas biográficas de mulheres com experiências de encarceramento

Abstract

This research analyzes the experiences of women freedom after arrested period. Through the methodological approach of biographical narrative was possible to identify the main topics presented on the speeches that permeate freedom life after detention period. Biographical interviews were realized with seven women who were kept in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, jail, being the interview of Marilene analyzed using sequential manner and the others evaluated in a global manner, following the pattern of biographical narratives analysis developed by Gabriele Rosenthal. The biographical narratives pointed three aspects: ex prisoner stigma, expressed as a latent manner such as the ways it appear in the biographical reports of Marilene and others interviewed. The second point presented is the reinforcement of gender roles, used to mitigate the image of ex-prisoners. The third point emphasized on the interviews and analyzed on the present work is the correction character that ex-prisoners accredited for the prison system. This research intends to contribute for freedom experiences comprehension after in jail period. Biographical narratives demonstrate that analysis of prior biographical periods, such incarceration and the prior experiences, might contribute to comprehend the way freedom is experienced. Among the outcomes of this work is the finding which, at least, the sample researched do not confirms the logical worked by the writers that the jail would work as a “crime school”. The considerations leads to understanding of prisoners interviewed want a new opportunity. The priority given to family is used as motivation for not relapse. The research suggests the necessity to amplify, in future works, the number of interviews to be sequentially analyzed, with the purpose to build defined biographical typology for the experience of freedom after in jail period.