Mules and Women in Brazil: a question of gender, justice and intersectionality

• Autor(a) principal: Duarte, Joana das Flores
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Vértices (Campos dos Goitacazes. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://editoraessentia.iff.edu.br/index.php/vertices/article/view/15821
• topic: Women; Justice; Drug Market; Drug Mules; Intersectionality; Mujer; Justicia; Mercado de drogas; Mulas; Interseccionalidad; Mulheres; Justiça; Mercado de Drogas; Mulas; Interseccionalidade; Gênero e Mercados de Drogas

The paper aims to show how the association of women who act as mules in the drug market is not a matter of chance. It follows a literature review of theses and dissertations produced in the last decade (2006-2016) on women arrested for the crime of drug trafficking in the five regions of the country. One of the results obtained in the study was the imprisonment of most of these women as workers in the informal and illicit drug market working as mules. The intrinsic relationship between the capitalist mode of production and the justice system is noteworthy, in which the latter not only ensures the private right to property, but also creates selective and criminalizing mechanisms aimed at the poorest and deprived of rights segments in society, also consisting of women. All of this has been decisive for maintaining the selective character of the justice and penal system in Brazil, where philosophical foundations are continuously manifested, determining the imprisonment of people based on their condition of class, race, gender and the maintenance of violations of the right to citizenship.