The great female imprisonment

portraits of patriarchal structural violence in the Brazilian prison system

Abstract

The present work is the result of investigations carried out during the Master's course in Public Law at the Federal University of Uberlândia-MG, which was presented took place in February 2019. Through critical reflections, inserted in Feminist Criminology, it was possible to analyze the female panorama in the interior of the prison system. Despite the number of laws that have emerged in recent years aiming to mitigate the problems of the prison system, in practice, it appears that all this normative apparatus is not effective, ceasing to be applied daily, which leads to violation of rights of thousands of women, even those provisionally held in prison. In this article, the discussion on the relationship between the great incarceration of women and the as known as feminization of poverty is privileged, responsible, to some extent, for the punitive selectivity observed also in Brazil.

KEYWORDS: Feminist Criminology. Female Imprisonment. Criminal Gender Policy.