Gender relations and the subjects who has worked and are still working in the trade of illicit drugs

• Autor(a) principal: Tokuda, André Masao Peres
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Peres, Wiliam Siqueira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: INTERthesis
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/interthesis/article/view/1807-1384.2018v15n2p104

This article discuss how gender relations and more specifically masculinities interfere in the subjects’ engagement with illicit drugs trafficking.  We have used the cartographic method to map the existential stories of eight people who were imprisoned, problematizing on their experiences until the moment that they were convicted by the article number 33 of the Brazilian Criminal Code. Based on the results of the cartographies it can be stated that there are multiple lines that interfere in the engagement in of some people into illicit drug trafficking. However gender relations have been highlighted by the subjects: the need to prove themselves as a "true man" was one of the most present factors in their speeches. Thus, we discuss the need of Psychology to distance itself from limited positions, for example, that criminal offenses have their causes in pathologies, or it is only a question of social inequality, we conclude it is more problematizing of the diverse lines that cross and construct the subjects.