Banca de DEFESA: JÉSSICA AUGUSTO DOS SANTOS

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : JÉSSICA AUGUSTO DOS SANTOS
DATE: 28/03/2023
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: Plataforma Google Meet
TITLE:

INCARCERATION OF WOMEN AND CRIMINAL POLICY IN RIO GRANDE DO NORTE: social relations of class, race and patriarchal gender

KEY WORDS:

Incarceration. Criminal Policy. Patriarchal Gender Relations. Brazilian socio-historical formation. Rio Grande do Norte.

PAGES: 120
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Serviço Social
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos do Serviço Social
SUMMARY:

This dissertation aims to analyze the increase in the incarceration of women in Rio Grande do Norte (RN), apprehending the mediations between Brazilian socio-historical determinations, the ongoing criminal policy in the country and class, racial and patriarchal gender relations. It starts from the assumption that incarceration in Brazil finds its roots in socio-historical determinations that date back to its socioeconomic formation and social relations marked by authoritarianism, racism and patriarchy. In this direction, the research problem is delimited by questioning how currently the set of structural mediations of the Brazilian socio-historical formation and patriarchal gender relations and the objectification of the ongoing criminal policy affect the increase in the incarceration of women, in particular, in the reality of Rio Grande do Norte. For this, a bibliographical research was carried out about the Brazilian socio-historical formation; the Marxist critique of law and the State; of criminal policy, incarceration and critical criminology; and patriarchal gender relations and their mediations with the justice system, situating the phenomenon of women's incarceration in the Brazilian reality in the context of the ultraneoliberal current situation. Documentary research was also carried out, with data from the half-yearly reports of the National Penitentiary Department – DEPEN and its Information System of the National Penitentiary Department – SISDEPEN. The time frame for the analysis was limited to the years 2006 to 2020. To respond to the posed problem, the existing mediations between the socio-historical determinations of incarceration in Brazil, racism as a structuring element of Brazilian social relations, patriarchal relations of gender and the current criminal policy. Thus, it was possible to discuss  of the relationship between social production/reproduction and the phenomenon of women's incarceration in Brazil and its particularities in Rio Grande do Norte, in order to elucidate the increase in incarceration of this segment in the state. Information regarding the number of Brazilian penitentiary population between the years 2006 and 2020, and, of these, the number of women; the amount of prey per regimen; the total length of sentence to which they were sentenced; criminal classification; race/ethnicity, age group and schooling. Historical-dialectical materialism is adopted as a method of analysis in view of the instruments that make it possible to elucidate, in the set of the historical process of the incarceration of women in Brazil and its more concrete determinations, without disconnecting it from the organic whole that it integrates. Thus, it concluded on the deep connection between the historical racism of Brazilian society, the patriarchal gender relations, the criminalization of poverty and the punitive criminal policy of the neoliberal current in the country. The actions of the justice and criminal system, together with the elaboration of new penal legislation that expand criminalization, generated a great mass incarceration in the country, in which more and more women are being imprisoned every day. Mostly black, with incomplete primary education, young, and arrested for crimes related to drug trafficking and against property. The incarceration of women is historically situated and is gaining more and more density in contemporary reality, in view of the determinations of social, class, race and gender patriarchal relations.

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