Os múltiplos determinantes do reaprisionamento de mulheres

Abstract

The research addresses the multiple determinants that influence the reaprision of women and has been concerned to situate the issue from the point of view of Human Rights, but also, multidisciplinarily, articulating the areas of Law and Social Work. As a bridge between these areas of knowledge, critical criminology was used, which, unlike traditional criminology, will value in the stories of these women deprived of their freedom, their struggle efforts, confrontations, the quest to survive, recognizing what experiences brought them to prison and the reason for more rigorous punishments, because they were women, selected by their social class, and also subjected to physical and psychological "punishments", with the approval of the Judiciary, within the penitentiary. This is a qualitative study, carried out at the Madre Peletier Women's Penitentiary in Porto Alegre, using as research techniques semi-structured interviews with women in situation of restriction of freedom, interviews with the female agents responsible for maintaining them in prision, participative observation of prison dynamics, and document analysis, which had as sources the national and international legislation, as well as the official speeches contained in documents, decrees and resolutions of the punitive system.The research reveals the perverse reality experienced by women who have been re-confined, which imposes the need to deconstruct these two systems - criminal and penitentiary - that carry the traditional marks of criminal selection and arbitrariness, as well as affronting international treaties against torture and also those of human rights guarantees. In this perspective, the women participating in the study are seen in their specificities and peculiarities, considering economic, structural, social and cultural aspects of their life experiences that put them in a cycle of prisons, before, during and after going through concrete situations of incarceration , They are prisoners, because they are poverty, suffering all the violence of this situation.The study concludes that re-confined women are born imprisoned by their own social vulnerability and its consequences, due to their conflicting family relationships, the confrontation of domestic violence, the experience of exclusion within the region where they reside, making them return, even when they are released by the prison system, to this other type of prison, which is the precarious conditions of their social lives, fraught with gender oppression.