Gender, power and subjectivity: an analysis of the number of women in privation of freedom in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Gervasio, Ana Laura Marques
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Almeida, Juliana Evangelista de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Direito da Faculdade Guanambi
• Texto Completo: https://portaldeperiodicos.animaeducacao.com.br/index.php/RDFG/article/view/13924
• topic: Criminalidade feminina. Gênero. Subjetividade.; Female criminality. Gender. Subjectivity.

The increase in the number of women involved in illegal activities in the country, perceived through research made available by the National Penitentiary Department, calls attention to a multifaceted and highly complex phenomenon, awakening the need to think about the dynamics of Brazilian society to understand what is the meaning this increase. The present article, with a qualitative research, pursued an attempt to better understand the female incarceration data’s formation, which are the legal and social interest attributed to the characters of these statistics and how their subjectivities are apprehended in such context. It allows perceptions about how the number of women in situations of deprivation of liberty in Brazil (social and demographic implications), about what the Law has studied on the incarcerated women and the huge possibilities and complexities experienced by women as perpetrators of crime. Finally, the relevance of power and gender relations is highlighted in the construction of universes of meanings that hinder the perception of these women, blocks the recognition of their individualities and, many times, suppress their subjectivities, which, consequently, embarrasses the recognition and realization of rights in face of a urgent resolution of the problem by containing the increase in statistics.