Women in prision: rediscussing the invisibility

Authors

  • Simone Reis Nunes Universidade Luterana do Brasil - ULBRA Torres
  • Graziela Werba ULBRA Campus Torres

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/903

Keywords:

Gender, Female Crime, Invisibility, Classes

Abstract

Common sense, in the gender perspective, advocates female criminality as one more situation where the patriarchal relations prevail. Thus, women who are serving sentences would involve themselves in crime, as of their affective relationships with one or more male figures. In a research conducted in a Women’s Prison in Rio Grande do Sul, the data collection brought information that contradict this idea. What we intend with this study is a new look at the subject, by questioning: to think that women enter the criminality because of a male figure, wouldn’t it be one more form of invisibility?

Author Biographies

Simone Reis Nunes, Universidade Luterana do Brasil - ULBRA Torres

Psicóloga graduada pela Universidade Luterana do Brasil - ULBRA - Campus Torres, membro do Conselho Municipal dos Direitos da Mulher - Torres,

Graziela Werba, ULBRA Campus Torres

Psicóloga, Pós-doutora em Psicologia, Coordenadora da Pós-Graduação, Pesquisa e Extensão da Universidade Luterana do Brasil - ULBRA, Campus Torres, Presidente do Forum Municipal da Mulher - Torres, RS.

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Published

2013-09-04

Issue

No. 23 (2013)

Section

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