Mulheres aprisionadas: representando o universo prisional

• Autor(a) principal: Frinhani, Fernanda de Magalhaes Dias
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/3047
• topic: Women; Prison; Social representations; Right; Justice; Mulher; Prisão; Representações Sociais; Justiça; Direito; Psicologia; 159.9

The violence in which current societies are immersed can be measured, among other factors, by the substantial increase in prison population, increase that has favored the violation of the rights of the inmates and the disobedience of the Penal Execution Law. In the Brazilian penitentiary scenery the female prison population is very small when compared to the male counterpart and the data about female criminality are scarce and not enlightening. The objective of this work was to investigate the social representations of the prison space of women inmates in a State Female Penitentiary. For this study, we opted for a semi-structured interview as data collection instrument. Ten women inmates were interviewed, chosen among those serving a sentence for at least one year, utilizing a script which focused the following aspects of their daily life: social-demographic data; moment of crime; how the sentence functions are perceived; relation with family prior and after incarceration; life before incarceration; penitentiary day-to-day; vision of the treatment received in the penitentiary; what are the main difficulties encountered in prison; future projects. The data were organized from the content analysis of the interviews and their organization in individual synthesis-structures. Data revealed that the practices and the experiences lived and shared by the interviewees are fundamental for the construction and transformation of their representations on the different aspects of the prison quotidian. The construction of representations goes from the repulse and distance, passing through the total dread, and gets to the resignated acceptance. These transformations are strongly marked by the share of space as well as by strategies that permit the support of being in prison: family closeness, religion, some labour activity learning. Some gender characteristics also mark the prison existence: samples of the way they take good care of their bodies and of the space they occupy, referring to the cells as their houses; gossips diligence with their companions and the interviewers believe in the purpose of the punishment as resocialization. For many, the prison was the salvation of their lives. Also, the practices of violation of rights, mainly with respect to the actions of justice workers must be studied in more detail, such that the actions of these professionals become a vehicle of social promotion and not of exclusion, as has commonly occurred.