JUS.XXI
Proceedings Book of the International Symposium on Gender and Prison Culture
Coimbra, October, 16th and 17th 2020
[Online Format]
Organizing Committee @SIGeP2020:
Ana Guerreiro
Marco Ribeiro Henriques
Daniela Castilhos
www.sigep.pt
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Proceedings Book of the International Symposium on Gender and Prison Culture
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Marco Ribeiro Henriques
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JUS.XXI
Proceedings Book of the International Symposium on Gender and Prison Culture
Coimbra, October, 16th and 17th 2020
[Online Format]
Organizing Committee @SIGeP2020:
Ana Guerreiro
Marco Ribeiro Henriques
Daniela Castilhos
www.sigep.pt
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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Alessandra Rapacci Mascarenhas Prado
Manuela Ivone Cunha
Universidade Federal da Bahia
Universidade do Minho
Ana Costa Almeida
Maria Creusa de Araújo Borges
Instituto de Contabilidade e Administração de Coimbra
Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Ana Roseira
Maria João Escudeiro
Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra /
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
Ana Sani
CICS.NOVA / Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais
Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Ana Teresa Carneiro
Maria João Leote de Carvalho
Miriam Silva Pina
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto
Instituto Universitário da Maia / Jorge Carneiro & Associados,
Sociedade de Advogados, RL
Olga Furriel de Souza Cruz
André Paulino Piton
Paulo Fraga
Instituto Universitário da Maia
Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
André Pereira Matos
Pedro Sousa
Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique
Faculdade de Direito Da Universidade do Porto
António Dores
Rafaela Granja
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
CICS – Universidade do Minho
Carlos Silva
Raquel Matos
Universidade Católica de Salvador
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Carmen Hein de Campos
Sidney Guerra
Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis
Universidade Federal Fluminense
Cristiane de Souza Reis
Sílvia Gomes
Universidade Federal Fluminense
CICS -Universidade do Minho / Florida State University
Daniela Serra Castilhos
Sónia Caridade
Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique
Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Dora Resende Alves
Susana Almeida
Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria
Fábio Veiga
Susana Costa
Instituto Iberoamericano de Estudos Jurídicos
Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
Fátima da Cruz Rodriguez
Vanessa Ribeiro Simon Cavalcanti
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto
Universidade Católica de Salvador
Ilda Massano
Vera Duarte
Instituto Superior Miguel Torga
Instituto Universitário da Maia
Isabelle Rocha Valenca Figueiredo
Associação Tocantinense do Ministério Público
Isabel Dias
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
Joana Almeida
Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
João Proença Xavier
Universidade de Salamanca / Universidade Coimbra
Jorge Quintas
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto
Manuel Simas Santos
Instituto Universitário da Maia
Instituto Universitário da Maia
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
ACKNOWLEDGES
Following the success of the 1st edition of SIGeP, included in the 56th International
Congress of Americanists, held in Salamanca in 2018, the II International Symposium on Gender and Prison Culture (SIGeP2020), held on October 16 and 17,
2020, in a virtual/online format, under the question:
Is prison a democratic space?
The story of prisons is narrated under the scope of gender, in a male-female
dyad, where there is no place for diversity and there are no possibilities for the
full achievement of the personality.
Women are often underrepresented in a connection established between prison
and the dominant patriarchal culture and legal systems, often thought from the
dominant masculine. This led us to question:
Is prison a democratic space?
Prison, as a solution, keep the exotic vision of reintegration, which is transversal to men and women who momentarily seek to solve their most immediate
problems outside the social order.
This event was promoted by the project Law & Social, LAB in colaboration with
Associação Tocantinense do Ministério Público, ISMAI – University Institute of
Maia, through the Research Unit in Criminology and Behavioural Sciences, and
IBEROJUR – Iberoamerican Institute of Legal Studies.
This event would not also be possible to realize without the collaboration of
our partners: Human Rights Observatory and Coimbra Regional Directorate of
the National Association of Young Portuguese Lawyers.
A special thanks to the Plenary Sessions
Speakers and Parallel Session’ chairs:
Ricardo Loureiro, Raquel Matos, Maria Acale
Sanchéz, Vanessa Cavalcanti, António Pedro Dores,
Catarina Frois, Inês Viterbo, Paulynne Figueiredo,
Isabelle de Figueiredo, Sílvia Gomes, Rogério Mota,
Miriam Pina, Sergio Grossi, Alessandra Prado,
Anabela Brízido, Cristiane de Souza Reis.
A very special thanks to the Scientific Committee of this Second Edition of SIGEP 2020.
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Será a prisão democrática?
A ciência não deve ser um receituário
de respostas, tradicionais ou críticas. A
ciência é a arte de fazer perguntas susceptíveis de apoiar o aprofundamento
dos conhecimentos.
O nosso simpósio internacional foi
organizado em torno de perguntas
fundamentais (qual é a relação entre
género e prisões?) desmultiplicadas
nesta edição na pergunta que serve de
título (qual é a relação entre género e
democracias?).
A nossa língua trata como femininos
os nomes de prisão e democracia, em
contraste com o masculino de crime e
governo. Parece natural, a esta luz, que
sejam desproporcionadamente homens
quem mais frequenta as penitenciárias,
por serem criminosos apanhados, e os
corredores do poder, por serem governantes proactivos. Há movimentos
feministas concentrados na exigência de paridade sexual nos lugares de
poder. Ninguém reclama paridade na
população penitenciária. Para os poderosos o masculino é representado em
cima; para os humilhados o masculino
é representado em baixo.
Insisto: fazer ciência não é dar respostas, explicar as estranhas relações
entre o género das palavras e das pessoas. Fazer ciência é manter as perguntas vivas, recusando a naturalização do
status-quo.
Foucault propôs a adopção do método genealógico como modo de descobrir as origens das palavras e das
organizações, bem como as tendências
de transformação social que as utilizam.
Segundo esse método, pode pensar-se
que o género será a classificação mais
antiga, desde que se começou a dizer
alguma coisa, como mamã, e se aprendeu a fragilidade-potencialidade própria
da infância e de quem cuida dela. Por
outro lado, a democracia terá apenas
três mil anos, celebrada em Atenas na
confiança nos seus cidadãos, homens
e livres. As questões de género estão
bastante mais naturalizadas, são muito
menos questionadas, do que a democracia. O tempo torna a cultura incorporada em herança genética. Mas a
cultura, sobretudo a que usa o método
genealógico, pode (ou não) recuperar
a herança genética e, com trabalho e
tempo suficientes, desinscrever, excorporar, abolir, os estigmas, os preconceitos, as discriminações incorporadas?
A classificação de género está
polemicamente associada à supremacia do masculino e dos homens em
quase todas as sociedades conhecidas
(há quem insista em que tal conclusão
é apenas uma percepção cultural enviesada, naturalizada pelo patriarcalismo).
Pode pensar-se ser uma coisa natural a
superioridade da força física e da proactividade masculino, usada frequentemente para explicar a desproporção
estatística do sexo dos criminosos e
prisioneiros. A democracia é uma aspiração milenar, contra a ordem imperial,
contra a centralização das tomadas de
decisão nas elites, partindo do princípio
que a inteligência colectiva é mais eficaz e pacífica do que a ditadura. A
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prisão, invenção mais recente que o
género e a democracia, nem é natural, nem é inteligente, nem é centralizável. É supermacista, à margem da
lei e à disposição de todas as elites: é
uma repugnante escola que ensina a
arbitrariedade imperial como se fosse
natural. A prisão é a institucionalização
do sequestro e dos efeitos discriminatórios espontaneamente produzidos
entre elites (sequestradores) e o vulgo
(sequestrados e submissos). A prisão
naturaliza as discriminações, tornando
os presos em criminosos, com a notável
excepção das elites. Quando uma pessoa de elite vai presa, pode alegar com
sucesso estar a ser perseguida. O que
os presos comuns não podem alegar,
pois não contam com nenhuma condescendência social. A prisão é uma
escola para o lixo humano produzido
pelo capitalismo de forma industrial: é
um modo de ameaçar toda a sociedade,
em especial os excluídos, com a cumplicidade das próprias vítimas que, na
maioria, nunca conheceram outra vida
que não fosse a situação de cerco hostil.
Tal como os relâmpagos produziram o fogo que depois passou a ser
cuidadosamente mantido para poder
ser usado pelas pessoas, conforme
testemunha o Zoroastrismo, assim as
experiências de sequestro revelaram a
síndrome de Estocolmo, isto é, o efeito
de subordinação voluntária, de servidão voluntária, produzido em muitas
das vítimas. Reconhecidos esses efeitos
no comportamento das pessoas, eles
foram usados para rituais sacrificiais:
pessoas sequestradas foram educadas
a sentir orgulho por serem escolhidas
para servir as comunidades como bodes
expiatórios. Ter orgulho em serem usadas como meios de comunicação dos
grupos humanos com a natureza e/ou
Deus, de modo a inspirar os favores
divinos indispensáveis à sobrevivência,
era a única honra possível para dar
sentido àquelas vidas, como o suicídio
terrorista é hoje motivo de orgulho para
algumas pessoas.
A modernidade acabou com isso. A
síndrome de Estocolmo passou a ser
usada em massa, através da estratégia
do Panopticon levada a cabo pela grande
reclusão, que Foucault descreveu. A
vida tradicional em liberdade, de que
nos falou Ferdinand Tonnïes, foi substituída pelas liberdades da reclusão:
fechados em casa, ou na fábrica, ou
na escola, ou nos lugares de diversão
nocturna, ou nos percursos de férias ou
resorts, ou nos condomínios fechados,
os modernos sentem-se seguros, protegidos pelos estados contra a natureza
e as outras pessoas.
As ciências sociais, depois das Guerras Mundiais, profissionalizaram-se com
vista a encaminhar toda a gente para
os vários redis de reclusão. Chamaram
a isso integração social. Até aos anos
setenta, o progresso das sociedades
ocidentais incluía a perspectiva da
abolição das prisões. Imaginava-se
então que o que distinguiria as sociedades democráticas das sociedades
totalitárias era o facto de (ainda) não
haver Gulags no ocidente, como os
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havia na Rússia e na China. A partir dos anos 80, como mostrou Ruth
Gilmore, os ideais progressistas foram
superados pelos interesses pragmáticos
de manter os povos – os movimentos
anti-guerra e anti-racista em particular – subordinados aos interesses dominantes. “Nothing works” é a palavra de
ordem charneira e reveladora da profunda transformação social ocorrida na
época. A avaliação dura (e certa) de
Martinson denunciou a ineficiência do
trabalho social para a integração dos
ex-presos na sociedade moderna. Ainda
hoje é fácil observar o mesmo. Porém,
ao contrário do que o autor esperava,
a sua avaliação não foi utilizada para
questionar a impotência de integração
social das sociedades modernas (ainda
hoje isso é inquestionável nas ciências
sociais). Ao invés, tomando a avaliação
como uma resposta definitiva sobre a
natureza humana (os criminosos são
irrecuperáveis) e ilibando as políticas
sociais de responsabilidades (os trabalhadores e as instituições sociais
fazem o que podem, embora com índices de sucesso bastante reduzidos), os
estados democráticos instalaram um
sistema de punições equivalente ao do
Gulag, modernizando-o e globalizando-o. Fizeram-no pretextando a contraproducente guerra contra as drogas,
a tolerância zero, a contenção dos imigrantes, a guerra contra o terrorismo e
o mais que ameaça estar para vir.
As prisões tornaram-se relevantes
para a economia e atraíram gente com
diferentes sintomas da síndrome de
Estocolmo. Alguns auto-flagelam-se,
outros imitam o desprezo dos poderosos relativamente à humanidade, outros usam o sexo para humilhar terceiros.
Contraditoriamente, os presos praticam
a justiça pelas próprias mãos contra os
acusados de abusos sexuais. As prisões
e o trabalho dentro delas tornam-se
atrativos para alguns neo-nazi-fascistas, como as escolas e infantários são
atraentes para abusadores sexuais. Os
relatórios de segurança dos estados
identificam infiltrações de extrema-direita organizadas com base em elementos que se passaram a ligar entre si,
quando as propostas neo-nazi-fascistas começaram a tomar momento no
campo da política.
O que os relatórios de segurança
não identificam são as origens sociais
dos presos, tomados por criminosos.
As polícias, como acontece no caso da
guerra contra as drogas, em vez de trabalharem para prevenir o crime, isto
é, acabar com o tráfico por grosso de
armas (monopólio estatal), pessoas
e mercadorias ilícitas, dedicam-se a
andar atrás do prejuízo, quer dizer, dos
trabalhadores informais, geralmente
vítimas pessoais do danos na saúde
provocados pelo consumo de que o
estado não nos consegue (ou não quer)
proteger. Os trabalhadores sociais, em
vez de procurarem as origens sociais
do crime – as crianças, sobretudo as de
sexo masculino, mal-tratadas e abandonadas pelas famílias e/ou a cargo
de instituições para acolhimento de
crianças e jovens – dedicam-se a fazer
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aquilo que continua a não funcionar: a
reintegração social de pessoas adultas
tolhidas no berço pelo destino humilhante reservado a muita gente (há
notícias de que 1/3 das crianças em
Portugal só tomam refeições quentes
nas escolas) e que não se quer reconhecer.
A notícia deve ser a da indiferença
social pela miséria e a guerra produzidas
industrialmente. São suas vítimas privilegiadas as mulheres na primeira linha
da miséria que se ocupam de cuidar
de quem vive à sua volta, sendo frequentemente abusadas (também sexualmente) pela sociedade que as usa e
classificou tradicionalmente como seres
humanos de segunda. Essa indiferença
estende-se aos pobres e, como modo
de justificar o injustificável, aos presos
transformados culturalmente em “os”
criminosos. As elites têm vergonha de
não proteger os miseráveis, e precisam
de os responsabilizar pelo seu próprio
destino, fabricado nos berços. Então,
tratam genericamente como criminosos as vítimas da miséria. Os sistemas
de protecção de crianças e jovens, em
articulação com o sistema criminal,
protegidos pelo sistema de saúde (que
não relata o que sabe sobre os abusos
praticados por agentes do estado) tornam credível aquilo que é impossível:
obviamente, não são os pilha galinhas
quem rouba os frutos do trabalho das
sociedades. Obviamente, os homicidas
profissionais não estão na cadeia – trabalham para organizações públicas e
privadas de segurança.
As sociedades modernas produzem os
seus bodes expiatórios, destruindo-lhes
a vida, para se sentirem seguras. Estamos muito longe de ter superado os
ritos e os mitos sacrificiais das sociedades tradicionais que atribuímos ao
exotismo.
Para ganhar novo fôlego, a parte
intelectual da análise das prisões deve
ser capaz de ganhar perspectiva para
estudar as origens sociais dos criminosos-presos, marcados à nascença
– como acontecia no tempo de Cristo.
As prisões não são uma sociedade à
parte: são o fundamento imoral das
sociedades modernas.
Não basta fazer as articulações
indispensáveis entre as políticas de
prevenção de riscos em crianças e jovens, de segurança pública, de justiça
criminal, penitenciárias, de reinserção
social (incluindo escolas). É preciso
compreender como é possível as sociedades modernas manterem, dissimuladamente à frente de todos, práticas
sacrificiais aplicadas a crianças que
nascem de pais eles próprios já sacrificados. Não são apenas as prisões que
funcionam contra a lei e ao arrepio das
expectativas doutrinária modernas. As
prisões, e mais em geral a síndrome de
Estocolmo, são a fábrica da imoralidade
pública. Elas são o ovo da serpente. A
escola do espírito nazi-fascista.
António Pedro Dores
ISCTE Professor
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GENERAL PROGRAM
DAY 1 - OCTOBER 16TH, 2020
9h00 - 9h30
Opening Session
Luís Guerra
Human Rights Observatory
Ana Guerreiro
Organizing Committee
André Paulino Piton
University Institute of Maia
9h30 - 11h30
Plenary Session I
Women and the Justice
System
Vanessa Cavalcanti
Women, Prisons and Dictatorships
Ricardo Loureiro
Justice, Prisons and Women
Raquel Matos
Women of foreign nationality in Portuguese Prisons:
Life Paths and Experiences of Imprisonment
Maria Acale Sanchéz
The Revictimization of Criminal Women in Prison
CHAIR: ANA GUERREIRO
11h30 - 13h00
Parallel Sessions I
Gender-Responsive Intervention in Prisons
Women’s Invisibilities in the Justice System
LUNCH BREAK
14h30 - 16h00
Parallel Sessions II
16h15 - 18h00
Parallel Sessions III
Women in the Prison System
Parental Experience in the Prison Context
Education and Training in Prison
GENERAL PROGRAM
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DAY 2 - OCTOBER 17TH, 2020
9h30 - 11h30
Plenary Session II
Prisons as a Context
of Socialization?
António Pedro Dores
Is Punitive Democracy Democratic?
Catarina Frois
Inequality and Difference Within Walls:
Reflections on the Female Prison Context
Inês Viterbo
A “New Normal” for Prisons
CHAIR: MARCO RIBEIRO HENRIQUE
11h30 - 13h00
Parallel Sessions I
Prisons, Mental Health, and Exclusion
Ethnographic Perspectives in Prison:
Meanings of Incarceration, Conceptions
of Justice and Subjectivities
Prisons, Criminal Organizations,
Drug Criminalization, and Incarceration
LUNCH BREAK
14h30 - 16h00
Parallel Sessions II
Regional Systems of Human Rights
and Human Rights Violations in Prison
Human Rights, Business, and Prison
Adolescents in the Socio-Educational System
Prison and Migrations
16h15 - 18h00
Parallel Sessions III
18h00 - 18h30
Closing Remarks
Marco Ribeiro Henriques
Human Rights, Judicialization of Life, Criminal
Procedural Guarantees, Punitive Power,
and Restorative Justice
Organizing Committee
Isabelle de Figueiredo
Tocantinense Public Prosecutor Representative
Sandra Fernandes
Coimbra Regional Directorate of the National Association
of Young Portuguese Lawyers
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GENDER
-RESPONSIVE
INTERVENTION
IN PRISONS
26
Ana Beatriz Vilhena & Paulo Mendes Pinto
THE PROCEEDING AND THE EVANGELICAL
PROCEEDING: DIFFERENT WAYS TO PERFORM
MASCULINITIES IN THE PRISON CONTEXT
27
Alexandre Nogueira Martins,
Laurindo Dias Minhoto & Pedro de Almeida Camargos
BETWEEN CITIZENSHIP AND PRISONS:
THE CRIMINALIZATION OF LGBTPHOBIA IN BRAZIL
28
María Ruiz Torrado
GENDER, AGENCY, SEXUALITIES, AND AFFECTS:
MAKING ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE EXPERIENCES
OF WOMEN IMPRISONED IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY
THE PRISON OF GENDER: FROM SOCIAL
INVISIBILITY TO THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
OF THE INCARCERATED TRANS PERSON
Vera Costa da Silva
Iliana Galilea Cariño Cepeda
GENDER STEREOTYPES IN THE LIFE TRAJECTORIES
OF WOMEN IMPRISONED IN MEXICO
Carolina Pereira
Marcio Zamboni
LGBT PERSONS DEPRIVED OF FREEDOM IN BRAZIL
AND MEXICO: SUBJECTS, POLICIES AND RIGHTS
IN DISPUTE
Heloisa Melino & Fernando Lannes Fernandes
LGBTI+ IN DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY IN GLOBAL
PERIPHERIES: IMPACTS OF COLONIALITY
IN BRAZIL AND INDIA
33
Vera Duarte
“ONE SIZE DOES (NOT) FIT ALL”?:
A STUDY ON GENDER-RESPONSIVE INTERVENTION
IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
34
Francine Figueiredo Franco
LGBTI+ AND THE IMPRESCINDIBILITY
OF CONDITIONAL PRISONS IN CONTEMPORANEITY
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39
WOMEN’S
INVISIBILITIES
IN THE JUSTICE
SYSTEM
40
THE INVISIBILITY OF FEDERAL PRISONERS
IN PRISON SYSTEM IN THE RIO DE JANEIRO STATE
41
WOMEN AND THE JUDICIARY:
A RELATIONSHIP MARKED BY GENDER
AND RACE STEREOTYPES
António Carlos da Silva & Vanessa Ribeiro Cavalcanti
32
37
FRIDA FORM:
BETWEEN LOGICS OF CARE AND THE PATHS
OF PUNISHMENT IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Elenice Ribeiro Nunes Dos Santos
31
36
THE PRISON OF GENDER AND THE GENDER
OF PRISON. A FEMINIST ETHNOGRAPHY
ON GENDER CONFIGURATIONS IN PRISON REGIMES
Maria Celeste Simões Marques & Ethel Proença Braga
30
35
Vanessa Pereira de Lima
PRISON PANDEMIC:
HOW DOES IT AFFECT TRAVESTIS
AND TRANSGENDER WOMEN?
29
Maria Cristina Tárrega1, Alexandre Celioto Contin,
Gabriela Christina Cordeiro & Ana Patricia Approbato4
WHEN BEING A MOTHER IN PRISON IS NOT
AN OPTION: REPRESENTATIONS, INSTITUTIONAL
AND FAMILY RELATIONS AND ETHICS OF CARE
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WOMEN
IN THE PRISON
SYSTEM
Ana Páez-Mérida & Raquel Bartolomé Gutiérrez
Monica Sapucaia Machado
44
Evis Garunja
CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND WOMEN IN ALBANIA.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AS A PERSISTING CAUSE
OF AGGRAVATING THE WOMEN’S SITUATION
Diana Therese M. Veloso
LIVING WITH A DEATH SENTENCE:
THE EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN FORMERLY
ON DEATH ROW IN THE PHILIPPINES
Cristiano d’Orsi
HOW STRONG IS THE LIGHT AT THE END 7
OF THE PATH TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
FOR WOMEN IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA?
47
48
49
Amanda Cacemiro Ramos & Gabrielle Saraiva Silva
61
INEQUALITY IN ASSISTANCE INCARCERATED
WOMEN: FROM SOCIAL NEGLIGENCE
TO FAMILY ABANDONMENT
Sandra Tavares
62
THE FEMININE IN THE PORTUGUESE LEGISLATION
AND CASE LAW OF ENFORCEMENT
OF PRISON SENTENCES
Marina Leonor Pinheiro & Olga Cunha
63
EMOTIONS, AFFECTIONS,
AND PSYCHOPATHY AMONG FEMALE PRISONERS
Alicia Alonso Merino
64
WOMEN AND DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY IN CHILE.
DIMENSIONS OF PUNISHMENT
AND DISCRIMINATION
Silvia Gomes
MOVING OUT OF PRISON - A QUALITATIVE
LONGITUDINAL APPROACH TO FEMALE PRISONERS’
REENTRY PROCESS IN PORTUGAL
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60
INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND PRISON IN BRAZIL:
ETHNIC AND IDENTITY INVISIBILITY IN PERSPECTIVES
Luca Sterchele
“THIS WOMAN IS COMPLETELY UNREASONABLE”.
PRISON CULTURES AND GOVERNMENTALITY
IN A PSYCHIATRIC PRISON WARD
52
Ismael Pereira da Silva, Thais Janaina Wenczenovicz & Chirley Fátima Rigon
Daniela Ronco
HEALTH PROTECTION IN PRISON, BETWEEN
EQUIVALENCE OF CARE AND LESS ELIGIBILITY
51
59
WOMEN IN PRISON:
EDUCATION AND EMPOWERMENT
Bianca Chetto Santos
“I, AS WOMAN, FELT HUMILIATED”:
SHARED EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN WHO KILLED
ABUSIVE PARTNERS AND THEIR CONTACT
WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
50
Luziêt Fontenele-Gomes & João Diógenes dos Santos
Riddhi Pandey
(UN)FREE WRITINGS: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL
ENQUIRY INTO PRISON WRITINGS FROM INDIA
58
WOMEN’S ADVERSITIES
Dina Tanatova K. (Kabdullinovna), Irina Leskova V. (Valeryevna)
& Tatyana Yudina N. (Nikolaevna)
PROJECTS OF LIFE OF PEOPLE OF THE MUSLIM FAITH
RELEASED FROM RUSSIAN PRISONS
57
REDUCTION OF TIME SERVED THROUGH READING:
A PROJECT WITH FEMALE INMATES OF THE REGIONAL
PENITENTIARY OF PELOTAS
Ana Paula Guimarães, Maria Manuela Magalhães Silva & Fernanda Rebelo
46
56
BRAZILIAN WOMEN AND THE PRISON:
AN ANALYSIS OF THE INCLUSION OF WOMEN
IN A STRUCTURE DEVELOPED FOR MEN
Luciana Iost Vinhas
45
55
SENTENCING PROCESS
OF FEMALE DELINQUENCY IN SPAIN
Inês Marques & Jorge Quintas
65
GENDER SPECIFICITIES IN CRIMINOGENIC NEEDS
Raquel M. Fernandes & Telma C. Almeida
WOMEN IN PRISON: A STUDY OF TRAUMA OF CHILD
VICTIMIZATION AND ADULT EMOTIONAL LABILITY
54
Ludmila Ribeiro, Natalia Martino & Thais Lemos Duarte
BEHIND BARS: CRIMINAL PROFILES AND DYNAMICS
OF INCARCERATED WOMEN IN MINAS GERAIS
15
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
67
MASSIVE
INCARCERATION,
PRISON REFORM
POLICIES
AND PENAL
ABOLITIONISM
68
Hercules Guimarães Honorato & Heitor Campos Guimarães
THE REDUCE OF SENTENCE TIME TO BE SERVICED
THROUGH READING: CONTRIBUTIONS,
OBSTACLES AND RESOCIALIZATION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Carolina Piccolotto Galib & Luís Renato Vedovato
Renata Pereira de Macedo
APAC’S: A SOCIO-LEGAL ANALYSIS
FOR THE CREATION OF PUBLIC POLICIES
TOWARDS RESOCIALIZATION
70
THE STATE AND CRIME: A STUDY
ON CRIMINAL RECIDIVISM AND PUBLIC POLICIES
PARENTALITY’
EXPERIENCE
IN THE PRISON
CONTEXT
Andreza Gonçalves Barbosa & Fabrício José Nascimento
DYNAMICS FOR INFORMATION ACCESS
AND READING PRACTICES AT THE REFERENCE
CENTER FOR PREGNANT WOMEN DEPRIVED
OF LIBERTY (CRGPL) IN VESPASIANO/MINAS GERAIS,
BRAZIL
Tiago Leitão, Alexandra Gomes & Rita Martins
74
Malu Stanchi
Andrey E. Zuev
PREGNANT AND POSTPARTUM WOMEN
INCARCERATED IN RIO DE JANEIRO
Hellen Pereira Lara
Astina Koch & Marzanna Farnicka
MOTHERS INCARCERATED IN BRAZIL,
ANALYSIS FROM THE SERVICES OF PUBLIC
DEFENDER OF SÃO PAULO
MALADJUSTED ADOLESCENTS WITH DISABILITIES
IN THE JUVENILE REHABILITATION FACILITIES
WOMEN OR MOTHERS? VISIBILITY OF MOTHERHOOD
AND INVISIBILITY OF THE FEMALE GENDER
IN THE ITALIAN PENITENTIARY LAW
Carlos Augusto Hernández Armas
MOTHERS IN PRISON AND INVISIBLE CHILDREN.
THE PROCESS OF INHERITED STIGMA
IN MOTHERHOOD IN PRISON
16
86
88
90
THE ROLE OF PRISON EDUCATOR
IN THE CRIMINALIZATION PROCESSES. RESULTS
FROM AN ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
Sergio Grossi
76
85
FEATURES AND SPECIFICS OF EDUCATION
IN PLACES OF LIBERTY DEPRIVATION
RULES IN JUVENILE REHABILITATION FACILITIES
FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THEIR EMPLOYEES
AND ADOLESCENTS STAYING THERE
Costanza Agnella
84
EDUCATION POLICY FOR CHILDREN IN INDIA
Giovanni Torrente
75
83
INNOVATION IN THE PRISON EDUCATION PROCESS
Marzanna Farnicka & Astina Koch
73
82
INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT
VIOLENCE AND SECLUSION, IS EDUCATION
A MITIGATING FACTOR?
Joy Prakash Chowdhuri
72
81
WEAVING NETWORKS OF AFFECTION:
EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT IN PRISON
IN RIO GRANDE/RIO GRANDE DO SUL
Alberto I. Pierdant Rodríguez
71
80
PRISON EDUCATION AS A CRIMINAL REMEMBER
INSTRUMENT: REFLECTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL
PRACTICES IN THE EJA MODALITY
Raylene Barbosa Moreira
Dinnah Amaro de Lima
79
EDUCATION
AND TRAINING
IN PRISON
Mário José Disnard da Silva
69
77
BANGKOK RULES AND MIGRANT WOMEN
IMPRISONED IN SÃO PAULO
EDUCATION AND MASS IMPRISONMENT:
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PRISON REFORM
IN SOCIAL REINTEGRATION CENTRES IN BRAZIL
91
TABLE OF CONTENTS
93
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
PRISONS,
MENTAL HEALTH
AND EXCLUSION
94
Berenice Pérez Ramírez
“PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITY AS EMBODIED
EXPERIENCE. ACCOMPANYING TO WOMAN
WITH DEMENTIA IN PRISON”
96
Rui Cardoso, Sónia Caridade & Maria Alzira Dinis
RISK FACTORS FOR PSYCHOPATHY IN A SAMPLE
OF INSTITUTIONALIZED ADOLESCENT OFFENDERS
97
Purdenciana Ribeiro De Menezes
PROMOTION OF HEALTH THROUGH THE INCENTIVE
TO HEALTHY HABITS INTRAMURAL IN CEARÁ
98
Purdenciana Ribeiro De Menezes
INTEGRATIVE ACTIONS FOR THE HEALTH
OF WOMEN DEPRIVED OF FREEDOM:
PRACTICING ART FOR HEALTH EDUCATION
99
Paula Sobral
106
NEW TRENDS FOR THE COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT
OF PUNITIVE REACTION?
Lorena Valenzuela-Vela
107
REINTEGRATION OF FEMALE PRISONERS:
PRACTICES OF RESISTANCE AND MEANINGS
FROM THE ETHNOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL WORK
PERSPECTIVE
José Manuel Resende & José Maria Carvalho
108
METHODOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
TO ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATION IN SOCIOLOGY
Purdenciana Ribeiro De Menezes
THE ART OF PROMOTING THE HEALTH OF MEN
DEPRIVED OF FREEDOM
100
105
ETHNOGRAPHIC
PERSPECTIVES
IN PRISON:
MEANINGS
OF INCARCERATION,
CONCEPTIONS
OF JUSTICE
AND SUBJECTIVITIES
Ana Mª Hernández Fernández
Renata Guarda & Telma C. Almeida
110
POSITIVE EXPERIENCES AND CHILDHOOD
VICTIMIZATION: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
WITH MALE INMATES
PRISONERS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Giulia Medeiros & Aline Wendpap
101
Juliana Rochet
HEALTH COMMUNICATION IN DEPRIVATION
OF LIBERTY ENVIRONMENTS: THE CONSTRUCTION
OF INDICATORS FOR ANALYSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS
PREVENTION CAMPAIGN
102
João Proença Xavier
111
AUDIOVISUAL AS POSSIBILITY OF DISPUTING
IMAGINARIES BY THE PRISON POPULATION
Walter Hammerschick, Pedro das Neves, Pedro Liberado & Joana Apóstolo
112
THE NEED FOR ALTERNATIVE PRE-TRIAL DETENTION
MEASURES TOWARDS THE REALISATION
OF COMMON STANDARDS
CRIME OR PUNISHMENT PENAL
OR ADMINISTRATIVE SANCTION IN TERMS
OF MEDICAL LIABILITY IN MEDICALLY ASSISTED
REPRODUCTION TECHNICS IN IBERIAN CONTEXT
103
Camila Belinaso de Oliveira & Salo de Carvalho
INCARCERATION OF WOMEN IN THE MODULATED
PENITENTIARY OF IJUÍ / RS: THE CASE OF A MALE
PRISON INSTITUTION IN THE CONTEXT
OF THE COVID-19
104
113
PRISONS,
CRIMINAL
ORGANIZATIONS,
DRUG
CRIMINALIZATION
AND INCARCERATION
Alessandra Prado
INCARCERATION OF WOMEN
AND THE FUNCTIONING OF THE BRAZILIAN PENAL
SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19
PANDEMIC
Inês Farinha
114
PORTUGUESE CARCERAL SYSTEM THROUGH
THE EYES OF ORGANISED CRIME
– A GENDER-FOCUSED ANALYSIS ON PUNISHMENT
EFFECTIVENESS
17
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
115
Pedro de Almeida Camargos, Laurindo Dias Minhoto
& Alexandre Nogueira Martins
THE WAR ON ORGANIZED CRIME AFTER
REDEMOCRATIZATION IN BRAZIL: FROM HUMAN
RIGHTS DISCOURSE TO MASS INCARCERATION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Yuri Fedrigo Dutra
116
Airto Chaves Junior
CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS AND REBELLIONS
IN BRAZILIAN PRISONS:
AN ANALYSIS OF OBJECTIVE (AS A CAUSE)
AND SUBJECTIVE (AS A SYMPTOM) VIOLENCES
Lucely Ginani Bordon
WOMEN’S CRIMINALIZATION FOR ILLICIT DRUG
TRAFFICKING IN BRAZIL FROM A MARXIST FEMINIST
CRIMINOLOGY PERSPECTIVE
REGIONAL SYSTEMS
OF HUMAN RIGHTS
AND HUMAN RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS IN PRISON
120
Susana Almeida
THE PRISIONER’S FAMILY UNDER THE PROTECTION
OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION
ON HUMAN RIGHTS
121
129
THE INCORPORATION OF WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
PRINCIPLES (WEPS) AS CRITERIA FOR GRANTING
THE NATIONAL SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY STAMP
FOR PRISON WORK
Peter Glennon Lanzarotta Smith & Laurindo Dias Minhoto
130
THE TRAJECTORY OF PRIVATE PRISONS IN BRAZIL:
AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONTEST FOR LEGITIMACY
IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE
Tiago Leitão, Alexandra Gomes & Rita Martins
131
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS IN PRISON WORK
ADMINISTRATION
Chloé Constant
INTERNAL LAW AND TRANSPHOBIC VIOLENCE
IN A MALE PRISON IN MÉXICO CITY
122
128
WORK IN PRISONS: THE GENDER DIFFERENCE
THAT INTENSIFIES WITH THE INCARCERATION
AND INDICATES THE LACK OF HUMAN DIGNITY
Ana Maria D’Ávila Lopes, Marynna Laís Quirino Pereira
& Lucas Vieira Barjud Marques
119
126
THE INFLUENCE OF CAPITALISM
IN THE LABORPHERIC LOGIC OF THE FEMALE PRISON
SYSTEM AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WORK
WORKSHOPS FOR REINTEGRATION
Lorena Carvalho Leite Garcia de Oliveira
117
125
HUMAN RIGHTS,
BUSINESS
AND PRISON
Catarina Mendes Valente Ramos
Olívia Costa Lima Ricarte & Fabrizio Bon Vecchio
132
THE INSERTION OF PRISONERS IN THE PROVISION
OF SERVICES WITHIN THE BRAZILIAN PRISON SYSTEM:
REINTEGRATION INTO THE LABOR MARKET
THE INTERSECTIONAL VIEW OF WOMEN DEPRIVED
OF THEIR LIBERTY IN THE INTER-AMERICAN
HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM
123
Luciana Paiva Coronel & Cláudia Carneiro Peixoto
ETHICAL CHALLENGES FOR ACADEMIC
INVESTIGATION AND THE POSSIBILITY
OF BUILDING CITIZENSHIP IN SPACES
OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
133
ADOLESCENTS
IN THE
SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL
SYSTEM
Walker José Lima Filho & Anelise Gregis Estivalet
134
STRATEGIES FOR CONSENSUAL CONFLICT
RESOLUTION IN THE SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM:
EXPERIENCE REPORTS
Alicia Montero Molera & Esther Fernández Molina
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF PLEA BARGAINING
IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
18
135
TABLE OF CONTENTS
136
137
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Raquel Bartolomé Gutiérrez, Alicia Montero Molera,
Ana Páez-Mérida & Esther Fernández-Molina
Ana Rita Ferreira Rodrigues
GENDER INFLUENCE IN SENTENCING
IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
PRISON EXPERIENCE ON SOCIAL REINTEGRATION:
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ADULT
AND YOUNG INMATE GROUPS
Laís Silva Vieira
Emanuel Carvalho
WHAT’S CRITICAL ABOUT JUVENILE PROBATION?
THE CASE OF YOUNG WOMEN OFFENDERS
IN SÃO PAULO
PRISON
AND MIGRATIONS
Priscila Costa Pedroso & Márcio Sérgio Oliveira
ARRESTED MIGRANTS IN BRAZIL: TRAJECTORIES AND
STIGMA IN THE PRISIONAL SYSTEM PARANAENSE
141
A GENDERED DEPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE:
SPANISH DEPORTATION CENTERS’ SPATIAL
CONDITIONS AND VIOLENCES
142
MAPPING MIGRATION DETENTION IN MEXICO:
ESTACIONES MIGRATORIAS, TORTUROUS
AND GENDERED SPACES
144
FEMINISM, INTERSECTIONALITY AND FOREIGN
FEMININE RECLUSION
145
Cláudia Resende
MUSLIM FAITH DIVERSITY VERSUS MISCONCEPTIONS
OF PRISON INTERVENTION
HUMAN RIGHTS,
JUDICIALIZATION
OF LIFE, CRIMINAL
PROCEDURAL
GUARANTEES,
PUNITIVE POWER
AND RESTORATIVE
JUSTICE
148
Raimundo de Albuquerque Gomes
EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONTROL OF THE CHAIN
OF CUSTODY OF THE EVIDENCE OF TELEPHONE
INTERCEPTIONS IN THE BRAZILIAN
AND PORTUGUESE LEGAL SYSTEM
155
EXPLORATORY DIMENSIONS AROUND
THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
AND THE JURISDICTION OF THE PRISON SYSTEM
IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZIL
Claudia Mantovan & Caterina Peroni
156
GENDERS ENTRAPPED. AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
ON TRANSGENDER INMATES IN ITALY
Giorgio Pittella & Giovanni Allegretti
147
154
DNA AS “READY-MADE” EVIDENCE – AN ANALYSIS
THROUGH PORTUGUESE JUDGES’ EYES
Walmir Pereira
Joana Topa
153
THE PROTECTION OF VICTIM’S HUMAN RIGHTS
THROUGH RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
AND THE CHALLENGES FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF A NEW PARADIGM
Susana Costa
Julia Manek
152
DEMOCRACY AND ITS DUE: IS IT DEMOCRATIC
PRISON?
Linara da Silva, Gabriela Werner Oliveira & Monique Sacramento
Antonio Giráldez López
151
NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION
FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF CRIMINAL CONFLICTS
Márcia Aparecida Clemente
140
150
THE PORTUGUESE PRISON SYSTEM AND PROTECTION
OF THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM:
A BISECTOR ANALYSIS BETWEEN PREVENTIVE
AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
Cristiane de Souza Reis
139
149
157
BETWEEN TODAY AND TOMORROW:
“IDEAS ON THE RUN” IN A PIONEER EXPERIMENT
OF PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN THE ITALIAN
PRISON OF BOLLATE
Carolina E. De La Torre Ugarte
159
PENAL INSTITUTIONS AS ANTICIPATORY SPACES
Joana Apóstolo, Torben Adams & Rhianon Williams
160
CONTRADICTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL
JUDICIARY COOPERATION INSTRUMENTS:
THE CASE OF THE EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT,
ITS PITFALLS AND SOLUTIONS
19
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
162
163
Rossella Schillaci
Maritza Elizabeth Ochoa Ochoa
AN ATTENUATED PRISON FOR MOTHERS
AND CHILDREN? A VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHIC
RESEARCH IN A SPECIAL PRISON FOR CHILDREN
ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION AS
A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF PERSONS DEPRIVED
OF LIBERTY. CASE LOJA – ECUADOR
Nuno Pombo, Alexandra Gomes, Tiago Leitão & Rita Martins
Claudine Freire Rodembusch, Henrique Alexander Keske
& Jacques Fernando Ackerman
PAVING THE WAY TO A 21ST CENTURY INMATES’
REHABILITATION
164
Nivea Corcino Locatelli Braga
THE PERFORMANCE OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL
OF JUSTICE IN THE BRAZILIAN PRISON SYSTEM
TO MINIMIZE THE IMPACTS OF CORONAVIRUS
DISEASE 2019
165
Marcelo da Silveira Campos
CUSTODY AUDIENCE AND PRISONS
IN RIO DE JANEIRO
166
Vanessa Ribeiro Cavalcanti & Antonio Carlos da Silva
FROM PRIVATE TO PUBLIC: SOCIAL MOTHERS,
OVERLAPPING VIOLENCE AND ACCESSIBILITY
TO JUSTICE AND CITIZENSHIP IN BRAZIL
VIDEO
RECORDING
PRESENTATIONS
170
Aline Martinelli & Ana Paula Pimenta da Silva
Henrique Alexander Keske, Claudine Freire Rodembusch
& Jacques Fernando Ackerman
Alberto Pintado Alcázar
THE ORIGIN OF PRISON SYSTEMS
Julio Lisandro Cañón Voirin
Daiana Nicoletti Alves & Wanessa Assunção Ramos
THE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE PROTECTION
TO THE PROVISIONALLY IMPRISONED WOMAN
IN THE BRAZILIAN CRIMINAL SYSTEM:
THE (IN)EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COLLECTIVE
HABEAS CORPUS 143.641
20
180
DISRESPECT FOR THE DIGNITY OF “BEING
A WOMAN”: INTERSECTIONAL WOMEN IN PRISON
181
PUNITIVE VS RESTORATIVE. HOW THE SYSTEM
CHARACTERISTIC INFLUENCE THE DECISION
OF BECOMING MOTHER DURING PRISONS
IN MEXICO AND ROMANIA
182
THE SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL PROFILES
OF FOREIGN WOMEN IN SPANISH PRISONS.
AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS
183
THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF GENDER
AND ETHNICITY IN THE PRISON.
NA EDUCATIVE CHALLENGE
Claudia Maria Petry De Faria & Letícia Petry de Faria
184
CHILD PROTECTION IN THE PRISON SYSTEM:
A NECESSARY DEBATE
Verónica Montoya González
Lillian Zucolote de Oliveira & Lourival José de Oliveira
179
WOMEN IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS,
ARGENTINA (1976-1983)
Patrícia Anjos Azevedo
CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK
OF THE DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY: FUNDAMENTAL
RIGHTS, GOALS OF PENALTIES AND PROCEDURAL
GUARANTEES
173
178
THE HISTORICAL PATH OF THE IMPLEMENTATION/
CONSOLIDATION OF THE LGBT WING
IN THE PUBLIC JAIL OF PORTO ALEGRE/BRAZIL
Anaïs Quiroga-Carrillo, Cristina Varela Portela & Gabriela Míguez-Salina
172
177
GENDER INEQUALITIES AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE:
REFLECTIONS FROM PRISON
Cristina Varela Portela, Anaïs Quiroga-Carrillo & Gabriela Míguez-Salina
Jacques Fernando Ackerman, Claudine Freire Rodembusch
& Henrique Alexander Keske
MISINFORMATION AND CONFLICTING ACTIONS
OF BRAZILIAN PRISON POLICY IN FUNCTION
OF THE PANDEMIC
171
176
THE BRAZILIAN QUESTION
AS TO THE RELATIONSHIP OF JAIL
AND MATERNITY IN PANDEMIC TIMES
Ioana Dana Obrinteschi Iancu
169
175
Catarina Gonçalves
PRISON: AN INCUBATION FOR RADICAL BEHAVIOR
167
TABLE OF CONTENTS
185
MATERNITY TRAJECTORY IN PRISON
Ana Teresa Carneiro
EXTRAORDINARY APPEAL OF REVIEW
– THE ULTIMATE PROCEDURE GUARANTEE
AGAINST UNFAIR INCARCERATION
186
TABLE OF CONTENTS
187
188
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Claudia Ernst Rohden & Simone Schroeder
Tais Martins, Andressa Ignácio da Silva & Andréa Arruda Vaz
MEDIATION, MATERNITY AND PRISON:
THE INTERSECTION OF THE THREE PILLARS
WOMEN IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW:
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS, JURIDICAL
AND SOCIAL OF EMOTIONAL ABANDONMENT
IN THE FEMALE PRISONS IN BRAZIL
Azerbaeva Natalia Altynbekovna
MODEL OF PROFESSIONAL MENTORING
FOR ORPHANED CHILDREN IN THE SYSTEM
OF SECONDARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
IN RUSSIA
Alba Maria de França
190
191
192
193
THE POSITION OF THE SUPREME FEDERAL COURT
OF BRAZIL (STF) GIVEN RECOMMENDATION NO.
62 OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUSTICE (CNJ)
RACE, GENDER AND INTERSECTIONALITY:
BLACK FEMINISM AND DIALOGUE BETWEEN RIGHT
AND SOCIOLOGY IN THE ANALYSIS OF WOMAN
IN THE BRAZILIAN PRISON
Isabela Vaz de Oliveira, Fabrício Manoel Oliveira & Daniela Martins Laubé
Vítor Costa, Pedro Liberado, Catarina Abrunhosa, Graça Esgalhado & Ana Cunha
THE RETENTION OF BASIC EMERGENCY INCOME
FOR FAMILY MEMBERS OF INMATES IN BRAZIL:
A DISCRIMINATORY AND SEGREGATIONIST ECHO?
IMPROVING PRISON STAFF AWARENESS
AND SKILLS IN DEALING WITH MENTALLY ILL
INMATES THROUGH DISTANCE LEARNING:
FINDINGS FROM THE MENACE INITIAT
Fabricio Manoel Oliveira, Isabela Faleiro Oliveira & Daniela Martins Laubé
199
GENDER, RACE, SOCIAL CLASS, WOMEN AND PRISONS
Andressa Ignácio da Silva, Andréa Arruda Vaz & Tais Martins
189
198
200
201
Daniela Martins Laubé, Fabrício Manoel Oliveira & Isabela Vaz de Oliveira
EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONSTRAINT:
NOTES ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND (THE ABSENCE OF)
PUBLIC POLICIES ON COVID-19 IN THE BRAZILIAN
PRISON SYSTEM
Luciane Maria Santos & Carlos Roberto Cury
Vitória da Costa Caruso
Carlos Roberto Cury & Luciane Maria Santos
THE INVISIBILITY OF THE FEMALE TEENAGER
WHO SERVES A SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL MEASURE
OF CONFINEMENT IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICT, BRAZIL
ANALYSIS OF A LEARNING TRAJECTORY NARRATIVE
Jéssica Cindy Kempfer & Regiane Nistler
EDUCATION FOR FREEDOM: A STUDY
OF FEMALE PRISIONS IN BRAZIL
202
RESPONSIBILITY OF FATHERS AND MOTHERS
FOR THEIR CHILDREN:VIEW OF PRISONERS
AND CHANGES IN POSITION
Francisco Antonio Díaz & Alma Villaseñor Rodríguez
203
204
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN
IN THE SPANISH PRISON SYSTEM
Lorena Collados Torres & Alberto Pintado Alcázar
205
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
194
Rosana Julia Binda & Roberto Fanti de Resende
REFLECTIONS ON EDUCATION
FOR RESOCIALIZATION OF WOMEN IN CHARGE
IN THE PRISON UNIT OF BUBU, CARIACICA/ES:
A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OR DUTY?
195
Raúl Álvarez Pérez, Concepción Mimbrero Mallado & Jesús Delgado Baena
“WOMEN, PRISON AND DRUG ADDICTION”
- THE REALITY OF WOMEN WITH DRUG ADDICTION
PROBLEMS IN ANDALUSIAN PRISONS (SPAIN)
Lorena Collados Torres
Thaís Melo de Souza
196
THE RELATION BETWEEN THE GROWTH
IN THE NUMBER OF FEMALE SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES
AND THE NUMBER OF WOMEN IMPRISONMENT
IN BRAZIL
197
FEMALE INCARCERATION: PATRIARCHAL
INSTRUMENT FOR REAFFIRMATION OF SOCIAL ROLES
208
EUROPEAN INVESTIGATION ORDER: GROUNDS
FOR NON-RECOGNAITION OR NON-EXECUTION
AND THE ISSUE OF GUARANTEES IN CRIMINAL
PROCEEDINGS
Arnelle Rolim Peixoto & Miriam Gomez Romero
Myrna Alves De Britto
207
WOMAN INCARCERATED IN PRISON SPACES
Mário Simões Barata
Deborah de Deus e Mello & Eglantina Souza e Silva
206
FORMAL, NON-FORMAL AND INFORMAL
EDUCATION IN PRISON:
A MATTER OF INCLUSION OR EXCLUSION?
209
PREVENTING TORTURE IN PRISON:
THE JURISPRUDENCE LINE OF THE INTER-AMERICAN
COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ROLE
OF PREVENTING AND COMBATING
21
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
210
211
Carla Maria de Bastos Borrões
Dominick Luzolo Bongo & Thiago Allisson Jesus
ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH
IN INPATIENT INSTITUTIONS
THE INVISIBILIZATION OF WOMEN
IN THE BRAZILIAN PENAL SYSTEM AND ITS
IMPLICATIONS FOR THE RIGHT TO MATERNITY
Viven Iacob, Marta Brás & Cláudia Carmo
Augusto Martinez Perez Filho, Marilda Franco de Moura
& Renato Simão de Arruda
Paulo Eugenio Ferreira Rocha
PERINATAL PSYCHOLOGY AS A BASIS
IN MATERNAL-INFANT MENTAL HEALTH CARE
INTO A FEMALE PENITENTIARY IN BRAZIL
Miriam Gomez Romero & Arnelle Rolim Peixoto
PROMOTING RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: JUVENILE
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND ITS ROLE IN REGARD
TO VULNERABLE YOUNG PEOPLE IN LATIN AMERICA
215
Ellen Marina Santos, Laís Von Dollmger Machado & Rodolfo de Freitas Jacarandá
GENDER, RACE AND PUNISHMENT:
THE IMPRISONMENT OF BLACK WOMEN
IN THE BRAZILIAN WESTERN AMAZON
ON THE BASED ON CRITICAL FEMINIST
CRIMINOLOGY
216
Thiago Allisson de Jesus, Flaviane Rodrigues & Gabriella Barbosa Ribeiro
FEMALE INCARCERATION AND (IN) VISIBILITY
IN MARANHÃO: AN ANALYSIS ON THE EFFECTIVENESS
OF RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEMOCRATIC
RULE OF LAW POST-1988
218
Luis Martins de Araújo, Carolina Pasin & Rodrigo Augusto Magalhães
COLLECTIVE HABEAS CORPUS AS MITIGATORY
INSTRUMENT FOR MASS WOMEN INCARCERATION
IN BRAZIL
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Sandra Dulcineia Duarte Costa & Sandra Fernandes
DEVELOPING SOCIAL SKILLS IN THE PRISON
CONTEXT – RESULTS FROM THE IMPLEMENTATION
OF A TRAINING PROGRAM WITH PRISONERS
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PENITENTIARY PUBLIC POLICY: IMPRISONMENT
OF WOMEN IN THE BRAZILIAN PENAL SYSTEM
Sónia Caridade & Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
224
FEMALE CRIME, CRIMINAL JUSTICE PRACTICE
AND GENDER ROLES: JUDICIAL PROFESSIONALS’
PERSPECTIVES
Maria Alzira Dinis & Sónia Caridade
225
COURT DECISIONS, GENDER ROLE
AND FEMALE CRIME: JUDICIAL (DIS)PARITIES
Rosario Pozo Gordaliza
226
VALUES AND BELIEFS AS PERSONAL CONSTRUCTS.
PROFESSIONALS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE DEALING
WHITH YOUNG FEMALE OFFENDERS
IN BALEARIC ISLANDS
Juliana Roman
PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
AND ELECTRONIC MONITORING: A SOLUTION
TO THE OVERCROWDING OF THE BRAZILIAN PRISON
SYSTEM OR A VIOLATION OF THE RIGHT
TO PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
OF THE PRISONERS?
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COVID-19 AND THE BRAZILIAN PRISON SYSTEM:
CRITERIA AND LIMITS IMPOSED BY COURTS
TO GRANT FREEDOM
Maiara Lima Ximenes Trench & Arlen Jose Silva de Souza
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EFFECTS OF A MINDFULNESS-BASED
INTERVENTION FOR PORTUGUESE MALE PRISONERS
Andréa Arruda Vaz & Ana Renata Bueno Machado
THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF BRAZILIAN PRISON
SYSTEM AND VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
BY BRAZIL: ANALYSIS FROM PRECAUTIONARY
MEASURE N.888-19 WITH PROCEDURE BEFORE
THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION
ON HUMAN RIGHTS
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Sérgio Maneiras Laranjinho & Carla de Bastos Borrões
ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH
IN PRISON
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fábio Wellington Ataíde Alves & Ana Paula Felizardo
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TO SUZI, WITH LOVE: THE VIOLENCE AGAINST
INCARCERATED TRANSGENDER WOMEN
Juliana Roman & Guilherme Aresi Madruga Lopes
229
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN BRAZILIAN PRISONS
AND THE ROLE OF THE BRAZILIAN SUPREME COURT
AND OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUSTICE
Pedro Liberado, Pedro das Neves & Catarina Abrunhosa
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UNDERSTANDING RADICALISATION PREVENTION
STRATEGIES WITHIN CORRECTIONAL SETTINGS:
A HOLISTIC CROSS-SECTORAL TRAINING APPROACH
THROUGH DISTANCE LEARNING
Jacqueline Hellman
THE POSITION OF THE ECHHRR REGARDING
THE MIGRATORY INTERNAL POLICY OF EUROPEAN
STATES: A BACKWARD STEP IN THE PROTECTION
OF HUMAN RIGHTS
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GENDER-RESPONSIVE INTERVENTION IN PRISONS
Ref.: 005M22020
THE PROCEEDING AND THE EVANGELICAL PROCEEDING:
DIFFERENT WAYS TO PERFORM MASCULINITIES
IN THE PRISON CONTEXT
The prison environment can be considered a school of masculinities. Created by men and for men, the prison
routine imposes to the incarcerated that
they perform their masculinities in a
hypermasculine way to not be considered homosexual. Through the dialogue
between theories and ethnographic
data, it was possible to see differences
in the ways through which men that
declare themselves to be religious and
those who don’t, perform their masculinities in prison. The article is based on
the research that originated the concept of evangelical proceeding, which
consists of a code of conduct specifically attributed to evangelicals in prison
and which differs from the code of the
prison mass, simply called proceeding.
The work of accredited churches for religious assistance in prison feeds such
repertoire, which is widely disseminated
there. Through daily Bible reading, cults,
proselytism, and reception of detainees
that wish to convert themselves, the
supporters of the evangelical proceeding use the repertoire provided by these
codes to perform their masculinities.
The fieldwork included interviews with
employees, psychologists, teachers,
and correctional officers. Despite questioning the conversion of the inmates
that adhere to the religious repertoire,
the understanding that there is a clear
change in their behavior is unanimous.
Besides working as a repertoire for the
realization of masculinities, the evan-
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gelical proceeding has a functionality, Ana Beatriz Vilhena
to provide meaning to the hostile life Federal University
in prison. Both the codes act as con- of Juiz de Fora
trol devices that help in the internal & Paulo Mendes Pinto
ordering among the detainees, as well Lusófona University
of Humanities and Technologies
as facilitate the order by the prison
administration. Thus, the inmates use
the repertoire provided by these codes
to perform their masculinities. We partially conclude that the everyday interactions in prison are permeated both
by religious elements and gendered
issues. For that, we used authors such
as Michel Foucault e Raewyn Connel in
dialogue with the field research fulfilled
in a prison in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais,
Brazil.
Keywords: Masculinities, Prison, Religion.
COIMBRA 2020
GENDER-RESPONSIVE INTERVENTION IN PRISONS
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 039M22020
BETWEEN CITIZENSHIP AND PRISONS:
THE CRIMINALIZATION OF LGBTPHOBIA IN BRAZIL
Alexandre Nogueira Martins,
This article aims to analyze, using
the case of the criminalization of LGBTLaurindo Dias Minhoto
phobia in Brazil, how social movements
& Pedro de Almeida
have articulated demand for criminalCamargos
University of São Paulo (USP)
COIMBRA 2020
discourse analysis and Simon’s discussion on “governing through crime”, we
present the hypothesis that a “criminalizing rationality” acts as a grid of intelligibility linking social movements and
struggles for human rights and democracy to the criminal justice system. By
dividing the social world into victims
and criminals and portraying social
problems as crime problems, this rationality reshapes democracy as a “victim
democracy” and situates the recognition of “victims of crime” as central
to contemporary (sexual) citizenship.
Using this logic, we can comprehend
why prisons continue to be represented
as democratic devices in the context of
mass incarceration and flagrant human
rights violations. Finally, we argue that,
throughout Brazilian democratization,
the demands of social movements, such
as the LGBT, have become criminalizing. At the same time, citizenship has
become essentially punitive, and little
progress has been made in either making the criminal justice system and prisons less anti-democratic or challenging
the racist and cisheterosexist logics that
permeate them.
ization in defense of democracy and
human rights. Given that Brazilian LGBT
activism has grown in struggles against
government persecution of sexual and
gender dissidents, we begin by investigating how demands for criminalization policies arose among activists. By
drawing on queer criminological studies
that analyze the influence of gender and
sexuality on prisons and the criminal
justice system, we examine how prisons
and prison struggles have come to play a
central role in contemporary sexual politics. Finally, we seek to illuminate how
this has played out in recent decades
in Brazil, where democratization has
gone hand in hand with the expansion
of the criminal justice system and mass
incarceration. This study focuses on the
discourses promoted by hegemonic
groups in the Brazilian LGBT movement,
to trace the evolution of demands for
criminalization and incarceration. Our
empirical analysis includes documents
produced by Brazilian LGBT activists
since the 1980s, such as manifestos,
records from national meetings, and Keywords: Crime, LGBT Movements, Democlegislative proposals. In outlining the racy, Criminalizing Rationality.
rise and establishment of this agenda,
we argue that not only has LGBTphobia
become a problem of crime and prison,
but LGBT struggles have become criminalizing and carceral. Based on this
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PRISON PANDEMIC:
HOW DOES IT AFFECT TRAVESTIS AND TRANSGENDER WOMEN?
The objective of this paper is to analyze the different connections made
daily by travesties and transsexual
women in two prison units, both formally classified as male units, to maintain or produce femininities and their
affective bonds, as well as to question
what are the new challenges imposed
by the COVID-19 pandemic. The battle to maintain their bodies and gender
identities often proves to be arduous,
breaking family ties but also creating
new ones. As an ethical and political
statement, I refer to these prison units
as male-and-female units to recognize
and reaffirm the transit of femininities
that circulates amongst them. In pandemic times, this population, which is
a free society is blurred out of daily life,
in prison becomes invisible. Little is said
about the situation of the imprisoned
population, even less about travesties
and trans women deprived of their freedom. Access to health care or to ways
of maintaining their bodies, a fundamental part of the lives of travestis and
transsexual women, is interrupted or
diminished due to the social isolation
recommendations. However, prison, a
place with high rates of respiratory diseases such as tuberculosis, depends on
the visitation by the prisoners’ family
members to ensure basic hygiene, food,
and health items. What lies behind the
prohibition of visitations if the prison
staff enters and leaves these units
every day? How is the state ensuring
this population’s health care? Recently,
a proposition to isolate prisoners who
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were considered a high-risk group in Vanessa Pereira de Lima
containers was overturned. This pro- State University of Rio de Janeiro
posal emphasizes which subjects are (UERJ)
killable, and among them are both LGBT
people and prisoners in general. Having said that, this cartography intends
to stitch together the period in which I
have been affected from studying prisons, from 2017 to 2020, as well as the
current moment of the neoliberal and
globalized pandemic that is assuming
its facets, in this case choosing who
deserves to live and who deserves to
die, which lives matter and which ones
are not even entitled to become statistics. In a global context, the cases
of COVID-19 in poor and racialized
populations have been underreported;
travestis and transgender women working on the streets are more exposed
to the risks of the pandemic, but how
would they guarantee their survival
otherwise? How have we, as a society,
thought about the conditions of LGBT
people, and especially those deprived
of their freedom? These are discussions
that can point to possible ways of building a society that rethinks its system of
justice and exclusion since the colonization. To talk about systems of justice,
law, of abolishing prisons, is above all
to talk about racism and the social construction of the killable categories that
include travestis and transsexuals. The
question that remains is: who is being
killed by the pandemic?
Keywords: Travestis,Transsexuals, Prison,
Pandemic.
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GENDER-RESPONSIVE INTERVENTION IN PRISONS
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 047M22020
GENDER, AGENCY, SEXUALITIES, AND AFFECTS:
MAKING ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE EXPERIENCES
OF WOMEN IMPRISONED IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY
María Ruiz Torrado
University of the Basque Country
(UPV/EHU)
COIMBRA 2020
Parting from the results of a Ph.D.
thesis entitled “Prison as a gendered
institution: gender discrimination, practices of resistance and agency among
women imprisoned in the Basque Country”, this paper seeks to approach the
emotional and sexual experiences of
women held in Basque prisons. Special
attention will be paid to their agency
and practices of sexual and emotional
resistances they develop in attempting
to neutralize or minimize the effects of
penitentiary confinement. The methodology used has been anthropological, supported mainly by 36 in-depth
interviews: 23 individual interviews
to women prisoners or ex-prisoners,
and a group interview to four of them;
six individual and group interviews to
prison workers (three professionals in
the Social Work field, three in Teaching,
two in Social Education and one in Psychology); and six individual and group
interviews to members of seven associations working with women prisoners
and ex-prisoners. These interviews have
allowed data collection about women
jailed in the prisons of Araba/Álava and
Nanclares de la Oca (Álava), Pamplona
(Navarre), and San Sebastian (Gipuzkoa), the only prisons in the Basque
Country with women’s units. Additionally, the method used is also based on
several months of participant observation, due to the researcher having the
opportunity to access the two women’s units at the Araba/Álava prison for
seven months weekly. From a perspective that combines Social Anthropology
and Feminist and Gender Studies, the
lecture parts from understanding prison
as a gendered institution, insofar as it
(re)produces determined hierarchical
gender relations, increasing the women
inmates’ disadvantage and vulnerability. However, in tackling the imprisoned
women’s agency, the paper also delves
into the emotional and sexual bonds
they establish in prison, these being
of the utmost importance to obtain a
certain level of wellbeing or to alleviate the consequences of imprisonment.
Specifically, the paper focuses on the
solidarity networks built by imprisoned
women to support one another and on
the sexual and emotional relationships
—both heterosexual and lesbian—that
are created in prison. They are all key
means to the prisoner’s sexual and
emotional —and, in some cases, economic—support. Through their interactions in prison, imprisoned women
attempt to improve their sexual and
emotional circumstances. Although
none of the practices carried out really
undo the consequences of penitentiary
confinement, it is undeniable that the
inmates can achieve certain improvements—even though they are often
short-term. Hence, their intentional
actions, directed towards definite and
specific desires, reaffirm the idea that,
despite the existence of limitations and
difficulties, there is always a certain
margin for agency by means of diverse,
dynamic, and creative practices.
Keywords: Gender, Agency, Sexuality, Affect,
Imprisoned Women.
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GENDER-RESPONSIVE INTERVENTION IN PRISONS
Ref.: 086M22020
GENDER STEREOTYPES IN THE LIFE TRAJECTORIES
OF WOMEN IMPRISONED IN MEXICO
The experience of incarceration experiences does not begin with arrest;
hence several authors have exposed the
importance of analyzing life paths and
criminal careers (Macleod, Grove y Farrington, 2012; Benson, 2013). By the
way, life-course criminology allows us to
understand the role of history and macro-social factors to focus the individual
experiences of women prisoners from
a multidimensional perspective: family,
peers or friends, neighbors, partners
or spouses, labor markets, the justice
system, cultures (Benson, 2013). Feminist criminology has made the specific
conditions of women and as a critical
perspective, allows us to characterize
in this work, the stereotypes and prejudices with which women are represented and treated, both in institutions
of informal social control as in those
of formal social control. These imposed
labels and categories were extrapolated in contexts such as the COVID-19
pandemic when the Amnesty Law was
approved. This law seeks to free women
who meet certain criteria such as being
indigenous or having committed crimes
such as abortion. Narrative and contextual realities spread out the knowledge about women offenders (Pollock,
1999). For the empirical work, we use a
qualitative methodology and considered
feminist research methods that explain
that gender is not only a variable but
a system (Barberet y Larrauri, 2019).
Through document review and in-depth
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interviews with women prisoners and Iliana Galilea Cariño
prison authorities, in recent years we Cepeda
carried out analytical processing, cod- Violence Prevention Programa.
ing, and categorization of materials Ibero-American University Puebla
using specialized software Atlas.ti. The
perception of female prisoners has
effects on their treatment in detention,
to such an extent that there remains a
symbolic punishment for their deviation
and transgression. The image of the
imprisoned woman begins to be built
from childhood and adolescence, which
explains the abandonment and subsequent victimization. The prejudices
and stereotypes with which women are
labeled favor acts of discrimination that
are naturalized and are not reported,
despite the existence of regulatory
frameworks and human rights protection systems. With our results, we modestly expand the knowledge we have
about the women in prison, especially
in their stage before prison, their journey through the criminal justice system (preventive prison and execution
of judgment) and through the prison
system taking into consideration gender perspective, human rights, feminist
criminology, and intersectionality.
Keywords: Prison, Life-course Criminology,
Feminist Criminology, Gender stereotypes,
Victimization.
COIMBRA 2020
GENDER-RESPONSIVE INTERVENTION IN PRISONS
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 144M22020
LGBT PERSONS DEPRIVED OF FREEDOM
IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO:
SUBJECTS, POLICIES AND RIGHTS IN DISPUTE
Marcio Zamboni
Numas – Univerity of Sao Paulo
COIMBRA 2020
This paper aims to analyze the management modalities of sexual and gender diversity in Brazilian and Mexican
prisons in the context of the emergence
of specific rights for so-called LGBT prisoners. The focus is on male prisons of
the province of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and
the metropolitan area of Mexico City.
The fieldwork was carried out around
jails classified as male in the prison
systems of the two largest metropolitan regions of Latin America: Sao Paulo
and Mexico City. For five years (20142019), I conducted a multi-location ethnography in these two countries. This
included visits to prisons with the Pastoral Carcerária (in Brazil) and the Almas
Cautivas Civil Association (in Mexico);
bibliographic and documentary research
and also interviews with ex-prisoners,
activists, and state agents. I sought
to understand, on the one hand, how
certain institutional norms and public
policies have defined (and produced)
an LGBT population deprived of liberty
with specific demographics, demands,
and rights. On the other hand, I tried
to recover what this regime of sexualization and genderification of imprisoned bodies and subjectivities leaves
out. What other political formations and
classification systems are in the shadow
but still have effects on the production
of daily life in prisons? In this sense, I
approached narratives and trajectories
of subjects affected by this new regulatory apparatus. How do they relate to
these definitions and categories? What
possibilities for agency are created or
limited? In other words, it is about analyzing the historical invention of LGBT
prisoners as a specific subject of rights
and its effects on certain identities and
subjectivities. During the last decade,
it was possible to observe in both scenarios, the appearance of modalities for
managing the sexual and gender diversity of the prison population based on
the language of human rights. However,
this repertoire contrasts with the categories that emerge from the prison
experience itself. In the Brazilian context, categories such as bicha, travesti
and mona are often mobilized to define
subjects that differ from the masculine
and heterosexual pattern hegemonic
in the prison universe. In Mexico, we
find denominations like jotos, putos and
tigresas. Considering this diversity, new
questions arise: What are the dynamics
of these experiences in the daily life of
prison cells, corridors and courtyards?
How did they conform in this way over
time and what is their relationship to
the broader history of prisons in Latin
America? To what extent can these categories and experiences be understood
by the identities that make up the LGBT
acronym (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite and Trans)? Would human rights
be the most appropriate language to
talk about these lives? What demands
led to the development of this specific
framework of rights? Who really benefits from this new regime of regulation
and (in) visibility?
Keywords: Prison, Gender, Sexuality, LGBT,
Human Rights.
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GENDER-RESPONSIVE INTERVENTION IN PRISONS
Ref.: 152M22020
LGBTI+ IN DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY IN GLOBAL PERIPHERIES:
IMPACTS OF COLONIALITY IN BRAZIL AND INDIA
This paper explores the process of
creating the colonial subject from the
perspective of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity & expressions and
sexual characteristics, while simultaneously analysing the inception of a modern criminal justice system. The paper
will explore the overlapping themes of
the colonial experience in the context of
Brazil and India, from the lens of ‘coloniality of power’ (Quijano, 1992) and
of the modern/colonial gender system
(Lugones, 2007). Understanding that
Brazil ́s (and America ́s) colonization
is part of the first phase of modernity (Dussel, 1998; 2005) marked by
colonization for the purpose of land,
resources and slavery. The colonization
of India, however, could be understood
within the second phase of modernity in
a search for markets that would be unilaterally controlled. Gender and sexuality, as embodied in the colonial subject,
is constructed in each of these contexts
through varying level of influence from
colonization. In the Latin American case,
those constructions are built from the
imposition of hegemonic Eurocentric
conceptions of gender and sexuality
that, interposed to the notion of ‘race’,
(Quijano, 2010), created a system of
socio-symbolic and political subjugation of subalternized subjects. However, in the Indian context, the focus of
the colonial project was to control and
regulate sexuality, while maintaining
a close allyship with pre-existing sys-
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tems of power within the country i.e. Heloisa Melino
the caste system. We will analyze the IMJA (Brazil)
interaction between LGBTI+ people and & Fernando Lannes
the criminal justice systems by looking Fernandes
at the historical processes of monster- University of Dundee (UK)
isation and criminalization of various
assertions of gender and sexuality
from colonized subjects as uncivilized
(Hinchy, 2013). We acknowledge people
in prison are mostly people from marginalized and peripheral backgrounds.
Therefore, we will seek to demonstrate
the relevance of an intersectional and
decolonial understanding of the LGBTI+
theme as part of the confrontation and
disruption of the global order. Hence
paving the way to the construction of
new non-hierarchical, non-excluding
social and institutional forms of interaction that lead to real democratization,
especially, but not only, in societies that
were marked and forged from colonialism.
Keywords: Deprivation of Liberty, Coloniality
Of Power, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity
& Expressions and Sexual Characteristics,
LGBTI+.
COIMBRA 2020
GENDER-RESPONSIVE INTERVENTION IN PRISONS
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 125M22020
“ONE SIZE DOES (NOT) FIT ALL”?:
A STUDY ON GENDER-RESPONSIVE INTERVENTION
IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
Vera Duarte
ISMAI, CICS.NOVA
COIMBRA 2020
From the 80s onwards, Europe and
the USA faced a fast-growing of girls in
detention and placement in the juvenile justice system, which propelled
research to deepen the phenomenon
(Chesney-Lind & Shelden, 1992; Burman et al., 2001; Zahn, 2009). This
situation has explained the social and
scientific invisibility of girls for a long
time and clarify the challenges they
represent for a juvenile justice system
that is ill-equipped to respond effectively to gender differences in delinquency, which, according to research,
requires mandatory policy changes,
public resources and practices (Bloom
& Covington, 2001; Chesney-lind, et al.
2008; Zahn et al. 2009). The purpose of
this communication is to present some
conclusions of an ongoing research project on “Gender-responsive intervention
in the juvenile justice system”. An innovative project, developed in partnership
with the DGRSP (General Directorate for
Reinsertion and Prison Services, Portugal), and which intends to continue
a first research project on the same
topic -Female juvenile delinquency:
patterns, needs and intervention -which
took place between 2014 -2016. The
main objective is to explore and understand the need for a gender-focused
and gender-responsive intervention in
the Portuguese juvenile justice system. Using qualitative methods, particularly interviews and focus groups,
it was intended to give a voice to girls
detained in educational centers and to
the professionals who work with them,
to understand and deepen the practices,
needs and critical areas, and priority
interventions with delinquent girls. The
data from the projects have shown that,
although both groups identify: a) idiosyncratic needs in the intervention with
girls; b) propose improvements in that
intervention; c) and consider that the
services and activities aimed at female
specificities are based on a traditional
model that reproduces gender roles
(pregnancy, maternity, vocational training), they assume a certain posture of
resignation to the current model (which
is politically neutral) and a devaluation
of the gender dimension in the intervention.
Keywords: Gender Responsive Intervention,
Juvenile Justice System, Juvenile Delinquency,
Female Delinquency.
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GENDER-RESPONSIVE INTERVENTION IN PRISONS
Ref.: 197M22020
LGBTI+ AND THE IMPRESCINDIBILITY OF CONDITIONAL PRISONS
IN CONTEMPORANEITY
LGBTI+ are considered an important
part of the population, among numerous
factors, due to the representativeness
they carry with them and the struggle
for equality they aim for. However, the
aforementioned elements are not found
in a meaningful and effective way in a
view aimed at the prison system. Being
one of the reasons why this problem is
perpetuated, the present research has
as main object the prison lack around
the LGBTI + population and the need
for the existence of establishments destined to the reception of this population.
The topic raised is of great relevance
to the academic and social community, as it deals with two controversial
issues discussed today that, in addition
to having their own issues in isolation
-prisons and the LGBTI + population -,
when brought together, bring up a problem even greater: the unworthy treatment given to this population inside the
prison, which turns out to be a hostile
environment and of many adversities,
with the knowledge that outside of it
there is already an incessant search for
better living conditions in the community for it. For this purpose, the methodology applied to the development of
this essay is bibliographic, based on the
doctrines pertinent to the theme, the
legislative jurisprudential study regarding the figure of the condemned, including the existing rights of the LGBTI+
population itself, and analysis of several
specific cases, showing what is the cur-
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rent situation around the exposed real- Francine Figueiredo Franco
ity, especially whether or not there are State University of Minas Gerais
species of violations, both for those who (UEMG)
live in common prisons and for those
who already live in prisons considered
special for this population. As a result,
it was confirmed, first, that although
there are rights at the international and
national levels for LGBTI+ convicts, as
well as for those who are not, conventional prisons do not have sufficient
physical and organizational structures
to house them. In addition, there is a
dramatic and alarming situation regarding prisons exclusive to LGBTI +, as
there is, even though a concrete alternative, the low existential number of
prisons aimed at LGBTI + specifically.
One of the few examples is Downview
prison, located in the United Kingdom.
It is concluded, therefore, that this situation of prison scarcity restricts this
population the broad access to the right
to serve a restrictive sentence of liberty with the due equality, honor and
protection that is expected, since the
dignity of the human person is a right
of all, indisputably, and this principle is
not fully applied to LGBTI + within the
studied prison system.
Keywords: LGBTI+, Prison Shortage, Equality,
Exclusive Prisons, Alternative.
COIMBRA 2020
GENDER-RESPONSIVE INTERVENTION IN PRISONS
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 237M22020
THE PRISON OF GENDER:
FROM SOCIAL INVISIBILITY TO THE VIOLATION
OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE INCARCERATED TRANS PERSON
Maria Cristina Tárrega
UFG
Alexandre Celioto Contin
UNAERP
Gabriela Christina
Cordeiro
USP/RP
Ana Patricia Approbato
UNAERP
COIMBRA 2020
The universality of freedom rights
and equality is provided in several
international normative legislation and
is also included in the Federal Constitution of Brazil. Occurs that, in practice,
these rights, which are also included in
human rights, although already consolidated in the country’s legal scenario,
are advancing in slow steps towards
their concretization in what concerns
the “trans” population, mainly when
they are included and serving time in
the Brazilian prison system. It is well
known that the Brazilian prison system
is facing a deep crisis and has shown
itself incapable of preserving the convict’s fundamental rights. In fact, that’s
the reason that it was recognized as an
“Unconstitutional condition of Things”
by the Federal Supreme Court. Transgender people usually face stigma and
social invisibility, being routinely victims of discrimination, physical and
psychological violence in a society that
still denies accepting diversity and
recognizing people as they are. Currently, Brazil occupies the third place
in prison population in the world, with
a structure of vulnerability, exclusion
and marginalization of trans people is
reproduced. If the punitive system, by
itself, already set up a degrading treatment intrinsic to prison, in addition to
social violence, the trans person still
faces institutional violence in prison, a
place that, in addition to propagating,
intensifies the patriarchal, sexist and
homophobic structure. In view of the
binary and biological deterministic logic,
in a context of domination of masculinity that forms the Brazilian penitentiary
system, a critical reflection of the treatment and the reality of people inserted
in the “T” spectrum deprived of freedom
is sought. The lack of data about the
number of trans people in the prison
system reflects the institutions negligence and the social invisibility that
goes beyond the physical walls of large
prisons. Thereby, the problematization
proposed in this article aims to investigate the treatment and reality given to
minorities in prison, notably to transgender people. The study and debate
of gender issues in the Brazilian prison
system is revealed as a central theme of
this work to verify if prison is a democratic space. Furthermore, we intend to
analyze whether, in view of the state (in)
effectiveness in preserving the rights
inherent to the person, the deprivation
of freedom of the transgender person in
Brazil constitutes a violation of human
rights, in the light of constitutional principles and ratified international treaties.
Therefore, the deductive method will be
used, in such a way that the study will
be carried out with the aid of doctrines,
scientific articles, publications, research,
reports, analysis of quantitative data, in
addition to the examination of laws and
court decisions.
Keywords: Human Rights,Transgender, Prison,
Violence, Gender.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
GENDER-RESPONSIVE INTERVENTION IN PRISONS
Ref.: 245M22020
THE PRISON OF GENDER AND THE GENDER OF PRISON.
A FEMINIST ETHNOGRAPHY ON GENDER CONFIGURATIONS
IN PRISON REGIMES
This paper will reflect on issues
emerging from the research I am
undertaking about gender configurations in prison regimes, in the Portuguese context, from 1954 to the
present day. Prison and prison regimes
are imbued with the cultural contexts in
which they are inscribed and the institutional functioning intercrosses various organisations, communities and
intersubjectivities that circulate and
intervene in daily prison life. The experimental feminist ethnography in action,
part of this research, had as its starting
point the female prisons of Tires and
St. Cruz do Bispo. However, is being
developed in different temporalities
and movements inside and outside the
prison that accompany the institutional
organisation, the constitution of prison
regimes, the discourses and practices
of professionals and the paths and life
experiences of women and transgender
imprisoned. From the anti-carceral and
intersectional feminisms (Kim, 2018)
gender is analysed as a dispositive
(Foucault, 1994) and in performance
(Butler, 1999). This positioning is crucial
for the analysis of gender configurations in the formal and informal devices
of prison regimes, and of the agencies
and resistances of the intersubjectivities
subject to imprisonment, avoiding their
colonization and instrumentalization in
the ethnographic process. The prison
regimes reproduce the social system,
discrimination and institutional violence
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arising from heterosexism, racism and Vera Costa da Silva
poverty. For example, the imposition of University of Coimbra
femininity and heteronormativity, which
has practically disappeared from the
prison rules and legal texts, is however
perpetuated at the informal level. The
reproduction of stereotypes that intersect the various forms of oppression
aggravates the prison experiences of
lesbians, transgender, Roma and foreign women. The analysis of gender
configurations in prison regimes from
different scales, temporalities, locations and intersubjectivities allows us
to understand prison as a product of
the patriarchal culture of punishment
(Rodriguez and Lecumberri, 2016) and
of colonial capitalism (Coba, 2015).
Keywords: Feminist Ethnography,
Prison Regimes, Gender Configurations,
Patriarchal Culture of Punishment.
COIMBRA 2020
GENDER-RESPONSIVE INTERVENTION IN PRISONS
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 256M22020
FRIDA FORM:
BETWEEN LOGICS OF CARE AND THE PATHS
OF PUNISHMENT IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Carolina Pereira
This paper is part of my master’s
research in which I seek to understand
and analyze the expansion of criminal
policies, anchored in Maria da Penha
Law, in the city of São Paulo. Therefore, for this symposium, I propose
to highlight the National Life Risk and
Protection Form (FRIDA), an actuarial
instrument for risk assessment that
aims to prevent and crimes committed
in situations of violence against women
in Brazil. I draw the hypothesis that the
insertion of actuarial logic in criminal
policies for gender-based violence dispels the politics of care to give greater
focus to the control and punishment
of aggressors and not to and not to
guarantee the integrity and dignity of
women.
This research is conducted through
literature review, analysis of state documents, analysis of interviews and other
written or audiovisual production available online containing statements from
UN Members or law enforcers.
What is at stake when it comes to
which logic guides the penal treatment
of domestic violence is not just a technical dispute, nor a unison problem of
controlling violence. It is a field that
intersects both dilemmas and also the
dynamics of controlling precarious
lives and that, in doing so, manifests
rationality that goes beyond legal-procedural matters. A scenario in which
not only freedom, and integrity - in
its physical, psychological, moral and
economic facets - of groups marked by
structural and dynamic vulnerabilities
are negotiated, but the negotiation of
these vulnerabilities between these
groups enter a flow that permeates and
exceeds state management for conflicts
of domestic violence.
Therefore, what is negotiated is not
limited to legal relations, it is not the
result of the process favorable to the
prosecution or the defendant, but which
precariousness deserves to be defined
in the legal disputes and which lives
are worthy of defense, while others
remain discarded. The power to punish colonizes all other conflict resolution
experiences, and the judicial process
opposes victims and aggressors in a
dualistic contradiction. Thus, actuarial
instruments guiding criminal policies to
control gender-based violence seem to
fit the logic of battles to highlight the
suffering of victims of domestic violence, making this suffering a quantifiable problem and the lives of victims
deserving of specific and foreseeable
criminal intervention.
As a conclusion to my investigations, I intend to demonstrate how and
why public debate and public policies
towards facing gender violence are
transformed through actuarial logic, in
this case, more specifically, through the
introduction of FRIDA in Brazil’s and,
therefore, São Paulo’s, law enforcement
institutions. I aim to evidence the ways
actuarial logic dispels the remaining
logics of care in these specific gender
politics and replaces them for the colonizing logic of control and punishment.
Keywords: Domestic Violence, Risk Assessment,
Care, Punishment.
COIMBRA 2020
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
WOMEN’S
INVISIBILITIES
IN THE JUSTICE
SYSTEM
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
WOMEN’S INVISIBILITIES IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM
Ref.: 058M22020
THE INVISIBILITY OF FEDERAL PRISONERS IN PRISON SYSTEM
IN THE RIO DE JANEIRO STATE
The present article is based in
the analysis of surveys obtained in
Sjoman Torrano et Alli (2019) and Brazil (2019) with the objective to answer:
Does the public politics in prison units
of Rio de Janeiro state consider gender
particularities at federal in custody? The
approach is guided by theoretical-methodological studies having has references
the intersectionality that could inform
with the feminist historical perspective.
As for objective data, about 80% of
women were provisionally arrested for
the crime of international drug trafficking, their family lives in another country or Federation Unit, and in the case
of foreign prisoners, with about 50 %
from countries with languages other
than Portuguese or Hispanic languages.
In addition to breaking family ties, the
difficulty of communicating with the
actors in the units and accessing documents for their technical defense is
compounded by the fact that not all
nationalities have Consulates in the
State of Rio de Janeiro. A universe of
women predominantly between 26 and
45 years old, unemployed, the majority being single, and 69% with children.
About 40% of women enter the prison
system with chronic non-communicable
diseases, highlighting that there is no
protocol in the prison units to survey
the epidemiological profile and that data
from Rio de Janeiro (2018) denounce
that there is a lack of care and professionals focused on women’s health. It is
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concluded that there is a split between Maria Celeste Simões
the advances achieved in the legal civil Marques
frameworks and what occurs within the & Ethel Proença Braga
federal prisons in Rio de Janeiro, highlighting, among other aspects, the lack
of preservation of family relationships
and women’s health.
Keywords: Women, Prison, Invisibility,
Human Rights.
COIMBRA 2020
WOMEN’S INVISIBILITIES IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 184M22020
WOMEN AND THE JUDICIARY:
A RELATIONSHIP MARKED BY GENDER
AND RACE STEREOTYPES
Elenice Ribeiro Nunes
Dos Santos
Faculty of Law of the Federal
University of Bahia
COIMBRA 2020
In the world, spheres of power and
decision-making functions are spaces
occupied primarily by men. This is
mainly due to stereotypes related to
the female gender. Various structures
have contributed to the dissemination
of these stereotypes, such as: the family, the church, the medical discourse,
the school and the justice system. The
structure and functioning of the Brazilian justice system, and especially of the
Judiciary, reflect the gender bias added
to the racial bias. The male, white and
heterosexual magistrate predominates
in court. In fact, it is more serious: not
only does it predominate, it is also an
impartial judge’s reference. In this article, the relationship between the Judiciary and women will be analyzed. The
objective is to discuss the influence of
gender and race stereotypes in judgments and the functioning of the Judiciary based on reflections on female
bodies that pass through the courts as
professionals, defendants or victims.
For the elaboration of this work, a primarily quantitative approach was used
based on data collected from public
databases combined with bibliographic
and documentary analysis. The data
demonstrate that social controls related
to women are still reproduced by the
Judiciary. In its composition, women
occupy a greater number of positions in
the early stages of their careers. In the
courts they represent only 23% of the
judges and ministers. In addition, many
of these magistrates perform according to the dominant male subjectivity,
some because they consider the male,
white and straight as a neutral judge
paradigm, others for fear of discrimination. How is a legitimate trial possible if the people who suffer the most
violations are not represented in the
judiciary, especially the courts? Women,
and especially black women, must be
represented in all instances of the Judiciary. Some measures can be adopted
to allow greater diversity in the Judiciary: identification of stereotypes that
permeate decisions, training courses
for magistrates, rules of progression in
the judiciary and judicial protocols that
consider the perspective of gender and
race.
Keywords: Stereotypes, Gender, Race, Judiciary.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
WOMEN’S INVISIBILITIES IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM
Ref.: 146M12020
WHEN BEING A MOTHER IN PRISON IS NOT AN OPTION:
REPRESENTATIONS, INSTITUTIONAL AND FAMILY RELATIONS
AND ETHICS OF CARE
In a complex and extreme context of
vulnerabilities, maternity in the prison
environment is one of the paradoxical
situations of a recent Brazilian scenario. There is an androcentric structure of prisons created and designed
by men and an increase in pregnant
women. One can notice the androcentric structure of prisons created for and
thought by men. The confinement of
those idealized by society as being docile and meek causes a dilemma, since
their idealized role of taking care of the
household chores rests unfulfilled. Most
of them lose touch with family members and friends because of geographical distance and prejudice. To find out
what the impacts of institutional gender
violence caused in imprisoned women,
there was a case study in Conjunto
Penal Feminino, located in Salvador,
Bahia, Brazil, between 2015 and 2019.
The methodological approach used was
the qualitative one, which provided a
better understanding of the facts and
social processes detected through
semi-structured interviews with female
inmates. Results show that: as the
moment of separation will certainly
occur because of the imprisonment, the
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State becomes fully responsible for the António Carlos da Silva
children, in addition to keeping affection UCSAL
and sustaining family ties. It requires & Vanessa Ribeiro
recognition of the reproductive rights, Cavalcanti
of the right to maternity and the (re) UFBA
construction of family ties in order to
(re)integrate them into society.
Keywords: Women, Prison, Human Rights,
Reproductive Rights, Maternity.
COIMBRA 2020
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
WOMEN
IN THE
PRISON
SYSTEM
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
Ref.: 120M12020
CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND WOMEN IN ALBANIA.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AS A PERSISTING CAUSE OF AGGRAVATING
THE WOMEN’S SITUATION
This paper will be focused on the general researches on Criminal justice in
Albania and the situation of Women’s
rights in the Criminal field, the comparison in time and space, the framework changes, and the improvement of
women’s life inside the Albanian prisons.
This overall overview will be focused
on the concrete situation of convicted
women’s victims of domestic violence
and how their life was affected by the
commitment of this crime.
The methodology will consist of a
compared study of legislation, the international legal framework, policy papers
on identifying the connection between
domestic violence and domestic crime,
and the direct effects on women’s
life. The analysis of the circumstances
affected the social and psychological
stability of a woman leading her to commit a crime.
The paper will show the real face of
the legal and social life of a woman
with justice problems, the support of
the society, and specialized authorities on providing services to guarantee
women’s rights in problematic situations. According to INSTAT, in 2018,
are counted 39,649 perpetrators of
criminal offenses, of whom 2,832 are
women. Compared to the last year,
are 10.0 % more perpetrators. Are in
total 5,316 prisoners, of whom 5,207
are males and 109 females (the year
2018). Women are noticed to occupy
a higher percentage of about 22.0 %
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compared to 4.5 % of male convicts Evis Garunja
at the university level. In prison are University of Durres/Albania
provided different professional training
courses which indicates that a number
of 264 prisoners attended them, with
respectively 19.3 % females and only
4.7 % males.
The paper will try to answer some
issues regarding the connection
between the numbers of convicted
women and their crime, is gender crime
related to the domestic violation situation in Albania, is the women victim
of discrimination oriented to commit a
crime against her aggressor? In Albania, are a total of 3,414 violated women.
Cases of domestic violence reflect the
number of denunciations made to the
police, a phenomenon which may even
cause a person’s death. Thus in 2018,
out of 51 murders, about 19.6 % of
them are homicides as a result of family relations. According to victims of
murders causes by family relationships,
we can say that in 2016 there are 68.4
% of them women and 31.6 % men;
in 2017 64.3 % of women and 35.7 %
men and in 2018 the % of men victims
raised in 42.1% against 57.9% women.
Keywords: Law Protection, Services,
Domestic Violence, Convicted Women, Albania.
COIMBRA 2020
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 229M22020
LIVING WITH A DEATH SENTENCE:
THE EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN FORMERLY
ON DEATH ROW IN THE PHILIPPINES
Diana Therese M.Veloso
De La Salle University
COIMBRA 2020
This paper illuminates the experiences
and issues of women who spent time
on death row before the suspension of
capital punishment in the Philippines by
then-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
in June 2006. Drawing upon participant
observation and in-depth interviews
with women formerly on death row,
their family members, and prison staff,
the researcher examines the women’s
pathways to prison and death row and
the common themes in their backgrounds that brought them in contact
with the criminal justice system. This
research analyzes the link between the
women’s criminalization and their prior
experiences of victimization, social and
economic marginalization, and deception and betrayal in relationships. The
researcher exposes the social backgrounds of these women, who come
from predominantly low-income and
working-class communities, with limited education levels and unique needs
on account of their gender and their
role as mothers and/or other relational
responsibilities. Before they landed in
prison, the women in this study largely
occupied marginalized positions in their
families and relationships, at work, and
society in general, on account of their
gender, social class, and race and ethnicity. Their criminalization for their
prior experiences of victimization and
marginalization was compounded by
institutional corruption in a postcolonial nation such as the Philippines.
The researcher looks into the women’s
concerns and coping mechanisms when
they still lived under the sentence of
death, and the impact of their incarceration on their family members and
other significant networks. This paper
elaborates on their social worlds under
confinement, their struggles for survival when they were on death row, and
their negotiation of the social order in
the penitentiary. The researcher also
delves into the near execution of one
woman, the subsequent confirmation
of the death sentences of five other
women, and the impact thereof on the
rest of the women inmates on death
row. The researcher discusses the women’s views on the suspension of capital
punishment, as well as its politicization,
their understanding of the commutation
of their death sentence to life imprisonment without parole, the changes in
their situation since the repeal of the
death penalty, and their fears regarding
the revival of the death penalty in the
Philippines under the current administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.
This paper concludes with a discussion
of their persisting concerns and service needs in prison as they continue
to serve long-term sentences, while
avoiding the prospect of returning to
death row if capital punishment were
to be reinstated.
Keywords: Women in Prison,
Women on Death Row, Capital Punishment,
Death Row, Life Without Parole.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
Ref.: 089M12020
HOW STRONG IS THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE PATH TO ABOLISH
THE DEATH PENALTY FOR WOMEN IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA?
Over a year after electing Nelson
Mandela as its President, South Africa
(SA) ended the use of the death penalty, with a ruling of its Constitutional
Court (S v Makwanyane and Another
(CCT3/94), 6 June 1995) proclaiming
that ‘capital punishment is [...] unconstitutional’ (para. 392 of the judgment).
That ruling indicated a momentous
shift in the use of capital punishment
in Africa, as more countries joined
the global trend to move away from
it. Therefore, my work focuses on the
analysis on the current situation of
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) vis-a-vis the
resistances and challenges still found in
this macro-region on the path to complete abolition of the death penalty. In
December 2014 at the United Nations
General Assembly (UNGA), 27 African
countries voted in favour of a resolution
calling for a progressive end to the use
of the death penalty (A/RES/69/186).
Five months earlier, in July 2014 in
Cotonou, the continent had adopted a
declaration urging countries still imposing it to “consider abolishing the death
penalty statutorily or constitutionally”
(para. 6). Namibia, for instance, made
the death penalty unconstitutional since
1990, in its first independence Constitution (Art. 6, ‘Protection of Life’). The
African Union (AU) is currently considering an additional protocol to the
African Charter on Human and Peoples’
Rights (Banjul Charter) on the abolition
of the death penalty. In effect, at its
37thOrdinary Session (2005), the African Commission on Human and Peoples’
Rights (ACHPR) decided to appoint two
Commissioners to work with the Special
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Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Cristiano d’Orsi
Detention in Africa, to produce a con- South African Research Chair
cept paper on the question of the death in International Law/University
of Johannesburg
penalty on the continent. The imposition of the death penalty in accordance
with the law was believed to be sanctioned by Article 4 (‘Right to Life’) of
the Banjul Charter, although the AU
Commission has repeatedly called for
its suspension. In contrast, the Second
Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
(ICCPR), aiming at the abolition of the
death penalty (adopted by the UNGA
Resolution 44/128 of 15 December
1989) has not found fertile ground in
Africa, showing the reluctance of many
governments to peremptorily abolish
capital punishment. To date, only 15
countries from SSA have ratified this
protocol. If it is true that, in 2018, only
Botswana, Somalia, Sudan and South
Sudan used this measure with Somalia
being the main user due to incidences
of terrorism related crimes involving
Al-Shabaab insurgents. It is also true,
however, that most African countries
still have the death sentence on the
law books and judges continue to pass
such judgments. Yet, there is a growing
number of instances where they are not
enforced resulting in sentences commuted to life imprisonment.
Problems like the lack of fair trial
guarantees and the resurgence of the
death penalty in contexts marked by a
significant deterioration of the security
climate.
Keywords: Law Protection, Services,
Domestic Violence, Convicted Women, Albania.
COIMBRA 2020
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 229M22020
PROJECTS OF LIFE OF PEOPLE OF THE MUSLIM FAITH
RELEASED FROM RUSSIAN PRISONS
Dina Tanatova K.
(Kabdullinovna),
Irina Leskova V.
(Valeryevna)
& Tatyana Yudina N.
(Nikolaevna)
Russian State Social University
Moscow
COIMBRA 2020
Here we study the projects of life of
Muslims who have served their sentences for fraud and other crimes and
returned from Russian prisons in the
past three years. There was a hypothesis that the Muslim culture had significant impact on the processes of
adaptation after the release from prison.
However, it was not confirmed: a high
percentage of repetitions of crime was
revealed among previously convicted
Muslims, as well as the inefficient use
of religious resources as a worldview
and humanitarian foundation. Sociological methods were used, in particular, focus groups with former convicts
and in-depth interviews with penitentiary facility staff. The first focus group
includes Muslims practicing Islam, with
secular manners, and ideas about life
quite close to European traditions. The
second group includes Muslims who
practice Islam and impeccably comply
with all the requirements of the Islamic
religion. In-depth interviews were conducted with penitentiary facility staff in
order to identify personal attitudes, the
potential of social functions in the process of monitoring prisoners who were
in penitentiary facilities just before
their release. Convicted Muslims can be
conveniently classified into two numerically unequal categories: the majority
serving sentences for personal crimes
and the minority-serving sentences
for crimes of terrorist and extremist
natures. These two categories differ
significantly in the degree of religious
conviction and psycho-types. The first
group of respondents finds excuses in a
turn of events, in particular in poverty
and insuperable difficulties that pushed
them to fraudulent actions in their past
life. The second group of respondents
are deeply religious Muslims, brought
up in the best traditions, where religious canons are passed down through
generations. Both groups believe that
a lot of time and effort is needed for
the complete adaptation to society. The
projects of life of both groups are close.
They are making efforts to restore their
status, financial situation, and social
recognition. Since it takes considerable
time to achieve these goals, they usually rely on various communities and
clans that form around the mosque.
Russian Muslims who have come out
of jail quite clearly see their projects of
life. However, realizing their unattainability in a short time, they are often
get involved in criminal activity again,
using a criminal behavior model. At the
same time, they interpret their religious
ideas in excusatory intonation, referring
to irresistible life circumstances.
Keywords: Projects of Life, Adaptation,
Muslims, Former Prisoners.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
Ref.: 100M22020
(UN)FREE WRITINGS:
AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENQUIRY INTO PRISON WRITINGS
FROM INDIA
Prisons are opaque institutions,
where everyday lives of the incarcerated are hidden from public sight. In
prisons, the deprivation of free and
un-surveilled communication with the
outside world is integral to the production of docile subjects. (Foucault 1977)
In such oppressive spaces, charged constantly with overt and covert displays
of violence and domination by prison
authorities over incarcerated persons,
any acts of writing by the latter become
ultimate forms of political resistance.
(Larson 2017) In the everyday lives of
incarcerated people in India, writing is
an anomalous practice, pursued by just
a few who are literate. Moreover, writing under incarceration in India is not
a matter of right, but instead a privilege, that is extended selectively by the
prison authorities to only some. (Kaur
2019) And yet, what potential do these
sparse prison writings possess? For this
paper, I identified prison writings, i.e.
writings that emerge from experiences
of incarceration in Indian prisons, as
my object of research. I implemented
a two-pronged methodology to study
them. The first method involved a close
reading of select prison writings published in the last two decades in India,
alongside which, I have carried out an
interpretive discourse analysis of these
texts. Secondly, I conducted in-depth
interviews of a few formerly incarcerated prison writers to gather their narratives of writing under incarceration.
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This paper asks, how can prison writings Riddhi Pandey
contribute to our knowledge of prison Department of Anthropology
systems, which have often been docu- and Sociology, The Graduate Institute,
Geneva (IHEID)
mented and studied institutionally, only
from above? How can prison writings
become objects of analysis and tools for
studying prisons and the experiences
of incarceration, from below? Through
my analysis of prison writings, I found
certain recurring themes that give us an
intimate peek into the everyday lives of
incarcerated persons in Indian prisons.
Further, the first-hand narratives about
practices of writing were in themselves
very revealing of how incarceration was
experienced in Indian prisons. Few such
themes that I discuss in detail include
the experience of time under incarceration, the bodily inscriptions of prolonged
imprisonment, and the material culture
within Indian prisons. Prison writings
are a valuable resource for understanding the lived experiences of incarcerated persons. Further, unlike their
imprisoned writers, prison writings can
have a free life of their own. They can
become a medium through which the
incarcerated can voice their resistance,
protest their repression, proclaim their
innocence, and engage with the world
outside, even as their writers remain
unfree.
Keywords: Prisons, Narratives, Writing, India.
COIMBRA 2020
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 137M22020
“I, AS WOMAN, FELT HUMILIATED”:
SHARED EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN WHO KILLED ABUSIVE
PARTNERS AND THEIR CONTACT WITH THE CRIMINAL
JUSTICE SYSTEM
Bianca Chetto Santos
Graduate Program of the Centre
of Interdisciplinary Studies of Women,
Gender and Feminisms of the Federal
University of Bahia
COIMBRA 2020
Despite innovation brought by the
Maria da Penha Law in Brazil, no longer allowing domestic violence to be
considered a minor offense and creating
the possibility of protective measures
disconnected from criminal prosecution, the Criminal Justice System (CJS)
is the main tool offered by the State
to battered women. Statistics show the
inadequacy of this approach: not only
it had little effect on women mortality
(GARCIA, 2013), it also has had a low
impact in actual sentencing and conviction, demonstrating that neither the
protection of women nor the punishment of men who batter their wives is
in the best interest of the CJS. Rather, it
moves preferably towards the imprisonment of specific social groups, targeted
through the criminalization of drugs and
private property-related offenses. This
research focuses on the experiences of
four women accused of murdering their
abusive male partners in Bahia, Brazil.
The study was approved by Ethics Committee and involved semi-structured
interviews with three women currently
in custody at the Conjunto Penal Feminino (CPF) de Salvador and the observation of the jury trial that resulted in
the absolution of a fourth woman. The
cases were selected after analyses of
inmates that passed through the CPF
between 2012 and 2018. The goal was
to understand these women’s contact
with the CJS and how they perceived
the process that leads up to their conviction (or absolution, in one case). All
women were self-declared black and
heterosexual and their violence history and context involving the death of
their partners varied greatly. However,
they all shared the fact that they never
registered police reports or attempted
institutional help. Only one of them
called the police in occasion but didn’t
answer the door when they appeared.
The reasons given for this add up to
a distrust in the public interest and
capability of resolving their problem
and actually guaranteeing their safety.
This corroborates previous researches
(BARSTED, 2011; SILVEIRA, 2014) that
showed how battered women struggle
in their access to justice in ways that
are also related to race and class: in
literal terms, for many women, the
distance between their homes and the
institutional help makes it difficult to
ask for help, especially considering economically vulnerable women; in subjective terms, their notion of justice and
their expectations of ideal resolution of
the case isn’t always compatible with
the available answers provided by the
State; in symbolic terms the relationship of many women, especially racialized women, and the State is marked
by police repression and distrust. As a
result, instead of entering the system
as victims, their relation with the CJS
begins as “criminals”. These women
recur to homicide to save their own
lives but their voices don’t echo in the
ears of the jury. Two of the interviewed
were convicted for the homicide of their
aggressors and their narratives are
marked by institutional violence, gender prejudice and despair.
Keywords: Domestic Violence, Self-Defense,
Criminal Justice System, Gender Prejudice,
Institutional Violence.
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WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
Ref.: 207M22020
HEALTH PROTECTION IN PRISON, BETWEEN EQUIVALENCE
OF CARE AND LESS ELIGIBILITY
This paper focuses on health protection inside prisons. A 2008 Italian Law
transferred the Prison Medical Services
to the National Health Services, but the
principle of equivalence of care (inside
and outside the walls, as provided by
the law) is far from being achieved.
The reflections stem from 3 researches
carried out by the Author in the last
10 years in the Italian prison system,
aimed at collecting (through interviews
and focus groups with prisoners, prison
officers and doctors in 9 prisons countrywide) the different frames and narratives about health, illness and medicine
inside prison. The results support the
idea of less eligibility (Rusche, Kirchheimer, 1939) as a premise preventing
a whole fulfillment of the equivalence of
care principle (Sim, 1990; Vaughn, Carroll, 1998). Firstly, power dynamics and
conflict deeply impact on the relationships (between prison and medical staff
and between prison/medical officers
and detainees) hindering any form of
confidentiality. Secondly, the unhealthy
structural conditions of the prison make
the detention experience even more
painful. In other words, prison doctors’
involvement in a disciplinary and control frame and practices, together with
the appalling structural conditions, pose
a major risk for prisoners’ physical and
mental health. In line with recent trends
of some international literature (Jotterand, Wangmo, 2014; Charles, Draper,
2012) the research proposes therefore
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to reconsider the principle of equiva- Daniela Ronco
lence of care, moving from the equiv- University of Turin
alence of standards to the equivalence
of objectives (Lines, 2006): when referring to the promotion of healthcare in
prison, we can’t ignore the overrepresentation of mental and physical problems. If the concept of equivalence of
care means that punishment must be
considered the loss of liberty and not
the the loss of liberty plus the loss of
many other rights (contrary to the less
eligibility principle), therefore national
policies should pay greater attention to
the outcomes than to the process of
healthcare provision, do not hesitate to
invest more resources in that field.
Keywords: Prison Healthcare, Less Eligibility,
Equivalence of Care, Prisoners’ Rights,
Prison Policy.
COIMBRA 2020
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 050M12020
“THIS WOMAN IS COMPLETELY UNREASONABLE”.
PRISON CULTURES AND GOVERNMENTALITY
IN A PSYCHIATRIC PRISON WARD
Luca Sterchele
University of Padova
The relatively small number of women
prisoners in the Italian Prison System
(which are about 4% of the total prison
population) has historically led to a
lack of attention on the phenomena
of female incarceration, from both an
academic and a juridical/organizational
point of view. As a result, studies that
focus on the specificities that characterize female detention are at the time
very few (see Pitch, 1992; Zuffa & Ronconi, 2014; Gandus & Tonelli, 2019).
Moreover, those same specificities are
denied and ignored on the practical
level, where the configuration of female
imprisonment is often calibrated on a
“male” model (Zuffa & Ronconi, 2014).
In this sense, it’s not surprising to notice
how in the Italian prison system only
the 25% of detained women are locked
up in an exclusively female institution,
while the remaining 75% is allocated
in sections created within male prisons,
of which they reproduce spaces and
organizational features (Fabini, 2017).
The position of marginality that women
thus assume (within a prison population
which is already marginalized per se) is
further aggravated by the formal and
informal “circuits” that segment prison
spaces. Prisoners categorized as “protected”, “high security”, “drug-addicted”,
“psychiatric”, are often assigned to specific prison spaces, designed for their
“management” and taken in charge.
The instance of “protection” and “cure”
that the prison system thus declares
to acquit, soon reveals its ambivalence
in further exacerbating the deprivation
regime to which women prisoners are
subjected (to an even greater extent
than men). This contribution aims to
present some preliminary results of ethnographic research that the author has
carried out during the last two years
within a prison in northern Italy: this
was mainly a men prison, but some
sections were dedicated to women
(two for “ordinary” detainees, one for
“psychiatric prisoners”). The research
focused on the study of governmental
processes towards prisoners defined as
“psychiatric”: this presentation, therefore, intends to focus on the processes
of categorization of women prisoners
as “psychiatric” and on the strategies
of governing which are consequently
implemented toward them. In particular, the presentation will focus on the
unfolding of those governmental strategies within a “psychiatric section” for
women prisoners, which was jointly
managed by both prison and healthcare/psychiatric staff. In this case, a
mixture of psychiatric knowledge and
prison cultures (see Vianello, 2018)
produced some interesting effects in
the narratives and interventions that
were produced toward incarcerated
women: the case of a woman assigned
in that ward because of her being “completely unreasonable” will be analyzed
more in-depth. In conclusion, some
research perspectives from ethnographic research on mental health in
a female prison to which the author is
currently working will be presented.
Keywords: Women’s Imprisonment,
Prison Healthcare, Prison Cultures,
Psychiatry in Prison, Mental Health.
COIMBRA 2020
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
Ref.: 002M22020
MOVING OUT OF PRISON
- A QUALITATIVE LONGITUDINAL APPROACH TO FEMALE
PRISONERS’ REENTRY PROCESS IN PORTUGAL
Reentry studies show that the reentry process offers many pressing challenges for returning prisoners, building
on the “invisible punishment”. Stigma,
social networks, deficits in education,
employment, and housing, lack of treatment programs, lack of family support,
and marriage seem to affect a successful reentry after release. Furthermore,
those reentering the community recidivate at high rates, and this has social,
political, and economic consequences
for individuals, families, and entire
communities. However, while there is
an abundance of studies on the prison(er) reentry, criminological research
on reentry has been inattentive to the
experiences of women, focusing mainly
on men. Reentry experiences of women
remain largely understudied (with a few
exceptions) and a couple of studies consider the gender differences between
men and women’s reentry experiences.
In this regard, we know that drug
dependence, lower educational levels,
or a long criminal record make women
recidivate at a higher level. Employment, housing, and treatment affect
recidivism rates the same way for both
males and females. Urban residence,
childhood, and recent abuses, living
with a criminal partner, selling drugs,
stress, depression, fearfulness, and suicidal thoughts are positive predictors
of recidivism for women, more than for
men. This paper is based on preliminary results of a qualitative longitudinal
study on prison reentry conducted in
Portugal, which aims to examine reen-
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try experiences of male and female Silvia Gomes
(ex-) prisoners with different socio-eco- University of Minho
nomic and criminal backgrounds. The
ultimate goal is to understand what can
be determinant in individuals’ trajectories on re-offending –recidivism –or on
giving up of the criminal path–desistance. Understanding how prisoners
perceive their lives and the potential
opportunities and constraints within
their environments provide important
insight into their needs and barriers to
the reentry process. Acknowledging that
reentry experiences of women remain
largely understudied and undertheorized this paper focuses specifically on
the female prisoners’ reentry process.
Barriers to the reentry process are analyzed based on 20 interviews, 10 from
the time women were serving time in
prison, and 10 from the first 6 months
after these women were released. It is
analyzed the role of the criminal and
social system in preparing individuals
to live as law-abiding citizens, the challenges these women face during the
post-release period, and the strategies
used to cope with the re-entry into the
community. In the end, barriers to the
reentry process are identified through
the lens of the female (ex-)prisoners
themselves, while it is critically debated
on how violence, incarceration, and
other forms of ‘continuous punishment’
are recurring in their testimonies, ultimately interfering in their trajectories
Keywords: Prison, Reentry, Gender,
Qualitative Longitudinal Research,
Continuous Punishment.
COIMBRA 2020
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 044M22020
WOMEN IN PRISON:
A STUDY OF TRAUMA OF CHILD VICTIMIZATION
AND ADULT EMOTIONAL LABILITY
Raquel M. Fernandes
LabPSI – Laboratório de Psicologia
Egas Moniz
& Telma C. Almeida
CiiEM - Centro de Investigação
Interdisciplinar Egas Moniz
Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz
COIMBRA 2020
Child victimization has a significant
negative impact. Female prisoners show
higher levels of physical and sexual
abuse (Severson, Postmus, & Berry,
2005), compared to men inmates and
women in the normative population
(Houser, Belenko, & Brennan, 2012).
Researches showed that in the inmates’
female population, 68.2% suffered
physical abuse and 53.9% sexual abuse
in childhood (Severson et al., 2005).
This victimization harm emotion regulation on female inmates (Walsh, DiLillo,
& Scalora, 2011) and increases emotional lability (McMahon, Huang, Boxer,
& Postmus, 2011). This study analyzes
the prevalence of child victimization in
incarcerated women and to verify the
relationship between their experiences
of child victimization trauma and emotional lability in adulthood. A sample of
80 incarcerated women [aged between
21 and 70 years old (M = 38.83, DP =
11.51)] answered in-person to the sociodemographic questionnaire, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ: Dias
et al., 2013), and the Affective Lability
Scale (ALS-18: Look, Flory, Harvey, &
Siever, 2010). The study was conducted
following the ethical principles and was
approved by the University institutional
review board and the ethics committee.
30.9% of women experienced emotional
and physical abuse in their childhood,
34.6% sexual abuse, and 97.5% emotional and physical neglect. There is a
relationship between physical neglect
and the affective lability (r = .239, p =
.031), anxiety/depression (r = .227, p =
.041), and depression/elation (r = .232,
p = .037). This research showed the
link between the trauma of youth victimization and emotional lability (Walsh
et al., 2011). Incarcerated women who
suffered from neglect are more likely to
have emotional lability, anxiety, depression, and elation. Our results allow us
to identify relevant variables to prevent
and intervene in children’s victims, to
reduce the emotional lability in adult
life.
Keywords: Child Victimization, Lability, Inmates,
Portugal.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
Ref.: 048M22020
BEHIND BARS:
CRIMINAL PROFILES AND DYNAMICS OF INCARCERATED WOMEN
IN MINAS GERAIS
In the early 21st century, a study on
female imprisonment in Minas Gerais
(Brazil) identified that women believed
they were invisible to state control
agents, taking advantage of this characteristic to engage in criminal dynamics. Almost two decades after this study,
female incarceration has increased tremendously, even when compared to
male rates. Nowadays, women account
for five in every 100 people behind bars
in Brazil, mainly due to drug trafficking.
Despite these changes, the inclusion of
women in criminal dynamics has not
been sufficiently considered in Brazilian academic research yet. There are
few studies focusing on them, aiming to understand who these women
are, how they perceive their position
in the drug trafficking networks, and
why they decided to join this criminal
activity. Usually, these analyses set the
female participation in subordination to
a male figure, either framing them as
caregivers, or inserting them in lower
positions in the criminal network. It is
worth asking if, in fact, men have such
a prominent role in the drug trafficking grids or if this understanding of the
female roles is an academic bias. Therefore, this paper seeks to describe the
profiles and to reconstruct the criminal
background of females held in custody
due to drug trafficking in Belo Horizonte
(Minas Gerais, the state capital). The
data used here were collected between
2017 and 2018, through a survey carried out with 170 women, among the
396 inmates held by the Estevão Pinto
Penitentiary Complex. In the sample,
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52% of the interviewees were arrested Ludmila Ribeiro,
for drug trafficking (89 questionnaires). Natalia Martino
Among some of the results achieved, & Thais Lemos Duarte
women in custody for drug trafficking Federal University of Minas Gerias
were Black (83%), had up to six years
of schooling (48%), with at least one
child (76%) and a third of them were
the providers of their families (34%). It
is interesting to note that 42% of these
detainees committed the offense alone,
in order to dissimulate their participation in criminal behavior. In addition,
only 12% had a firearm in their possession when imprisoned and merely
4% were arrested with some partner
in crime. If 20% of the interviewees
justified their entrance in the criminal
network due to a male influence, 9%
informed that they even convinced
someone to join the illicit business
promising them money. The narrative
that reinforces that women only join
criminal activities as a result of their
love for a male criminal appears to be
different among the women participating in our research. They join the drug
markets with an expectation of increasing their income. However, the police
focus on their family ties as well as on
their skin color and place of residence.
All detainees had, at least, one family
member that had served some time
in prison, making them more likely to
be stopped and arrested by the police
forces. This is a possible explanation
of why a third of them were arrested
in their own houses, in the beginning
of their criminal careers.
Keywords: Female Imprisonment,
Drug Trafficking; Brazil, Female Criminal
Networks.
COIMBRA 2020
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 093M22020
SENTENCING PROCESS OF FEMALE DELINQUENCY IN SPAIN
Ana Páez-Mérida
& Raquel Bartolomé
Gutiérrez
Criminology Research Centre,
University of Castilla – La Mancha
(Spain)
COIMBRA 2020
There is an extensive literature on
sentencing disparities. Research has
found that judges decisions are mostly
influenced by legal variables such as
prior record and offense severity. However, there is a broad consensus in
criminology that gender crosses justice systems and becomes a non-legal factor that influences sentencing.
Most of the empirical research in this
field finds a benevolent treatment for
women, but little has focused exclusively in analyse if all women benefit
from this benevolent treatment. Some
research in Anglo Saxon contexts shows
that black and low-class women receive
harsher criminal responses. Moreover,
some scholars argue that gender’s
judge can influence sentencing. As far
as we know, there is no work on this
issue in the justice system in Spain.
The purpose of this study is to explore
what type of women are sentenced and
how judges sentence them. Moreover,
we want to examine if all women are
treated equally. To explore those questions, we have carried out descriptive
and bivariate analysis with a sample of
472 women sentenced between 2008
and 2019 in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
courts. We analysed the possible influence of legal and non-legal variables in
the sentencing decision (guilty sentence
or acquittal) and the decision to incarcerate (dichotomous variable). Some
preliminary results show that 63%
of women received a guilty sentence,
especially for committing property,
drug-related and road-related offenses.
Moreover, results show that there is a
correlation between the imposition of a
guilty sentence and prior record, gypsy
ethnicity and drug problems. However,
apart from drug problems, these variables are not related to the imposition
of a prison sentence. We also found that
male judges impose more prison sentences than female judges. While some
of these results could be explained by
the composition of the Spanish criminal justice system, where judges have
little judicial discretion in the sentencing process, others indicate that some
extra-legal variables as gypsy ethnicity
and gender’s judge can influence sentencing decisions. In this sense, we
discuss if sentencing disparities are
legitimate or discriminatory.
Keywords: Criminal Justice System,
Decision-making, Disparities; Judges, Sentencing.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
Ref.: 153M22020
BRAZILIAN WOMEN AND THE PRISON:
AN ANALYSIS OF THE INCLUSION OF WOMEN
IN A STRUCTURE DEVELOPED FOR MEN
The article proposes approaching how
the Brazilian State developed policies
for the incarceration of women through
the analysis of norms and actions from
the penal code from 1830 to 2018. The
text begins by portraying how women
were incarcerated, initially, with men
and how this mixed incarceration
provided a series of violence against
women confined. The next part explores
how the argument of the reduced number of women prisoners delayed the
development by the Brazilian State of
prisons exclusively to women until the
end of the 1930s. The paper also presents the participation of the Catholic
Church in the management of prison
facilities for women in the country.
The report observes the regulations of
these establishments and the goals they
express: more than being a place to
serve a sentence imposed by a criminal
act, women’s prisons helped to teach
what should be “woman’s behavior.” The
article proceeds to analyze the incarceration of women in hospices and hospitals when their conduct did not join a
crime in the penal code but represented
a threat to the status quo and patriarchy. It then brings to light the rules
for criminal execution sentences after
the re-democratization of Brazil and the
1988 Constitution. Motherhood shows
as the main divisor of rights and benefits between women and men incarcerated. Research demonstrates that there
has been an increase in the number of
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women’s arrests since 2006 with the Monica Sapucaia Machado
Drug Law’s approval and this increase Brazilian Public Law Institute (IDP)
is related to the role women have in
drug trafficking. The article also pointed
out the statistics of female prisons and
prisoners and the jurisprudential and
public policy achievements for women
in prison. Succinctly, it reveals incipient
and localized policies for transgender
female prisoners in Brazil. The article
concluded that the unconstitutional
State of affairs of the Brazilian prison
system, recognized by the Supreme
Federal Court in 2015, is more profound
for women and that the Brazilian State
has not yet developed a re-socialization
project that has women as co-protagonists.
Keywords: Women, Gender Roles, Prisons.
COIMBRA 2020
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 158M22020
REDUCTION OF TIME SERVED THROUGH READING:
A PROJECT WITH FEMALE INMATES
OF THE REGIONAL PENITENTIARY OF PELOTAS
Luciana Iost Vinhas
Federal University of Pelotas
COIMBRA 2020
The present study has the objective
of presenting a description of the extension project developed in the Pelotas
Regional Prison (PRP), located in the
city of Pelotas, Brazil. The work was
directed to female inmates in a closed
regime -the women who participated
in the project were either waiting for
trial or they already were condemned
for a crime. Through a partnership
between the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), the Penitentiary, and the
Community Council of Criminal Execution of the County of Pelotas, it was
possible to develop a project based on
the reduction of time served through
the practice of reading. During the
months of July, August, and September
of 2019, three reading workshop cycles
were made with participants from the
female gallery of the Prison, and these
cycles guaranteed the reduction of time
served to the women who did the final
report. Each report that was made by
these women guaranteed, according to
the law, 4 days of reducting of the time
of the condemnation. We aim to discuss the activities that were developed
according to the instructions set by the
ordinance number 033/2019-GAB/SUP,
which regulates the reduction of time
served through reading. It is necessary, according to our interpretation,
to discuss how the work with reading
is understood by the imposed legislation, because it does not include all
the people in a situation of deprivation
of liberty. We also aim to present the
perspectives and the difficulties of the
project, thinking about the impacts they
can have. Pelotas Regional Prison was
a female and male penitentiary, with
five male galleries and only one female
gallery. It has, mainly, reduction projects which most benefit men. Women
are historically unassisted by different
ways; as claims Chies (2011), there are
female inmates in a male penitentiary,
that is, a prison within a prison.
Keywords: Reduction of Time, Reading,
Extension Project, Female Inmates.
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WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
Ref.: 168M22020
WOMEN’S ADVERSITIES
It is up to the State to promote
appropriate measures to “guarantee
fundamental rights and freedoms and
the respect for the principles of a democratic law State”, in accordance with
Article 9 (b) of the Constitution of the
Portuguese Republic. In the exercise of
this task, the defense of the fundamental legal assets to peaceful community
coexistence is included, by incriminating the conduct that violates them, preventing the practice of crimes and, in
the event that this function fails or is
insufficient, sanctioning violators. Our
objectives were to examine how the
Portuguese legislator is attentive to
the particularities of being a woman in
matters such as hygiene, health, motherhood and parental education during
the execution of sentences and, also,
we wanted to investigate the mechanisms triggered by the State for protection, as a preventive measure, of
women as victims of crimes. We made
a research, in numerical terms, inquiring the rate of constituted women
accused in criminal proceedings, as
well as the number of convicted, from
a set of recent and of reference official documentary sources, based on
the existing statistical resources. We
also made an analysis of the pertinent
legislative diplomas, among them, the
aforementioned Code of the Execution
of Penalties and Freedom Deprivation
Measures and the General Regulation
of Prison Establishments. The fulfillment
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of a prison sentence implies vast and
varied consequences, from personal
to familiar, passing through social and
professional consequences, among others. And when women are condemned,
the enforcement of sanctions has its
singularities, namely, pregnancy and
the postpartum situation. The execution of sentences and deprivation of
liberty applied to women “must take
into account their specific needs”, as
provided for in article 4, paragraph 3
of Law no. 115/2009, of 12 October.
We concluded that compared to the
male universe, the number of women
accused and convicted is clearly lower.
In 2019, there were 859 inmates in
Portuguese prisons, significantly less
than 11,948 men, according to official
statistics from the Directorate-general
for Justice Policy. It is a certain type of
prevalent crime that leads women to
deprivation of liberty, which, of course,
has its importance and significance.
On the other hand, it is women who
make up the largest share as victims
of certain offenses. According to the
2019 Annual Report, authored by APAV,
female victims amounted to 8,394.
Ana Paula Guimarães,
Maria Manuela
Magalhães Silva
& Fernanda Rebelo
Portucalense University
Keywords: Women, Freedom Deprivation,
Execution of Sentences, Victim.
COIMBRA 2020
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 176M22020
WOMEN IN PRISON:
EDUCATION AND EMPOWERMENT
Luziêt Fontenele-Gomes
UESB
& João Diógenes dos Santos
UEFS
COIMBRA 2020
Brazil is in the 4th position in the
world for female incarceration, the
profile of women in prison corresponds
to an age group of 18 to 39 years of
age, in general, black, semi-schooled,
mothers, from low-income classes. This
study presents preliminary results of the
research that aims to discuss questions
about education in the prison system
from the perspective of emancipation
and empowerment of women deprived
of liberty, based on the actions taken
in the classroom of the female wing
of a school located in a penal group
in the southwest of the state of Bahia,
by scholarship holders of initiation to
teaching in the Interdisciplinary Subproject, in the line of action in Youth
and Adult Education, which is part of
the Institutional Project Micro-Network
Teaching-Learning-Training, of the State
University of Southwest Bahia, in Brazil, linked to the Institutional Program
for Incentive to Teaching (PIBID), in
partnership with the Coordination for
the Improvement of Higher Education
Personnel. In the prison unit, there is
an annex of a public school with basic
education with approximately 90 female
students. The pedagogical interventions
were carried out by initiation scholarship students, undergraduate students
in Theater, Dance, Physical Education,
Letters and Pedagogy, under the coordination of teachers from the school
of basic education and the university,
during the period of two years (2014-
2017). Thus, for the discussions of this
study, some questions were raised:
how can education in the prison system
support the emancipation of women
deprived of their liberty? And how can
education contribute to the empowerment of this woman? What are the
resistances and / or resilience arising in
prison? The research has a qualitative
methodological approach, using action
research. The expectation of the study
is that the pioneering actions of the
Interdisciplinary PIBID of Youth and
Adult Education in a prison space can
contribute to the breaking of prejudice
and social exclusion paradigms regarding the person deprived of liberty, as
well as the(re) elaboration of conduct
within the scope of the actions implemented by schools in the prison system, in order to guarantee the woman
deprived of her liberty the possibility of
re-signifying her representations about
being a woman, while ensuring her dignity, ethics, as well as understanding
life in society.
Keywords: Education, Incarcerated Women,
Empowerment.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
Ref.: 019M22020
INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND PRISON IN BRAZIL:
ETHNIC AND IDENTITY INVISIBILITY IN PERSPECTIVES
Continued violence against indigenous communities or indigenous “being”
in Brazil has perpetuated over time
since the colonial power matrix. Violence against the female gender, their
experiences, social interactions and
the deprivation of freedom. According
to the interactive panel of information
and statistics of the Brazilian penitentiary system (Infopen, 2020), Brazil has
around 800 thousand people deprived
of their liberty, of which 42 thousand
are women. When verifying these
facts, it can be seen that most of them
are young women, black and with the
maternal bond. In just over a decade,
there was a significant increase in
female incarceration, of 656%, of which,
50%, are in provisional prison, awaiting trial, but already condemned by the
current structural racism. The question
arises: Does the deprivation of freedom
of indigenous women run through secular genocide and are now behind bars?
The theme may cause astonishment at
the reality of the incarceration of indigenous women and in view of this invisible
cutout, only the erasure of their bodies
will remain. According to official data
made available by INFOPEN between
July and December 2018, there were
53 indigenous women in prison, in the
same period in 2019, there were 65
indigenous women. Among the 1390
ethnic prisoners, 4.68% are indigenous.
In this perspective, other forms of rape
appear, indigenous women in deprivation of liberty, in 2018, obtained the
right to have a pardon commemorating Mother’s Day, with the exception
of those who had an Administrative
Record of Indigenous Birth. Thinking
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about the protection and guarantee of Ismael Pereira da Silva,
rights, contained in the Brazilian Fed- Unioste
eral Constitution, and Convention 169 Thais Janaina Wenczenovicz
of the International Labor Organization Uergs
(ILO) on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, & Chirley Fátima Rigon
self-declaration identification is essen- Unioste
tial in the context of criminal prosecution, but many of these women fear or
deny their ethnic identity for fear of
prejudice or retaliation. The dilution of
indigenous life is perceived in subordinate bodies, in invisibility and in the historical trajectory of losses and violence.
Prison asserts the dehumanization of
bodies, like a cog that abuses, instills
fear, represses and pursues socialization, the disciplining of marginalized
bodies in social and gender inequalities
and structural racism. The work aims to
analyze the structures of violence carried out against the indigenous female
body, with the gender “indigenous
women and prison culture”, present
in history, demonstrating that racism,
Coloniality and violation of rights are
perpetuated. As a contribution to the
theme, we seek decolonial thinking that
allows us to recognize and recover their
narratives and their places in stories
as well as their otherness and autonomy, according to works by Latin American theoretical thinkers that address
responses to violence and intermittent
Coloniality to which indigenous women
are exposed. The bibliographic-investigative methodological procedure was
used.
Keywords: Coloniality, Prison Culture,
Indigenous Women, Violence.
COIMBRA 2020
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 235M22020
INEQUALITY IN ASSISTANCE INCARCERATED WOMEN:
FROM SOCIAL NEGLIGENCE TO FAMILY ABANDONMENT
Amanda Cacemiro Ramos
& Gabrielle Saraiva Silva
Faculty of Law of Cachoeiro
de Itapemirim
COIMBRA 2020
This article reports on the context
experienced by women in the prison
environment and the existing peculiarities, which for the moment, are distinguished from the scenario of male
prisons. It aims to identify the real situation of the convicted woman in Brazil and the difficulties faced by them,
investigating in depth the particularities
experienced by the imprisoned woman.
To this end, it uses critical criminology
authors, sociologists and philosophers
who discuss gender, as well as articles
and contributions from health professionals, in order to identify the uneven
dynamics of prison between genders
and the deleterious effects of prison for
women in prison. For this, the method
of approach used is hypothetical-deductive, based on the principle of different treatment between genders in
the Brazilian prison context. The discussion, therefore, revolves around the
reality experienced by women and men
in prison in Brazil, with regard to the
structure of prisons, health problems,
assistance and/or lack of assistance
that each individual receives from the
State and family members. Evidence
of the dissimilarity in the experience of
men and women in prison, emphasizing
the worsening of the female situation
both when entering and while serving the sentence, and also in the way
society deals with the return of these
women. In addition, for analysis it is
necessary to investigate historically the
process of building relations between
genders. Furthermore, it is noted that
the inequalities of social roles act as
a triggering factor for the striking differences in the experience in female
prison. Finally, it is concluded that one
of the main generators of this inequality
is the patriarchal structural system that
acts in the formation and maintenance
of the unequal vision between genders.
It is noteworthy that patriarchy acts in
all social fields, in addition, the present research demonstrates that this
inequality is even more accentuated in
the context of prison with a generalized
violation of the basic rights of women
in prison.
Keywords: Prison System Inequality,
Patriarchate, Gender Inequality.
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WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
Ref.: 240M22020
THE FEMININE IN THE PORTUGUESE LEGISLATION AND CASE LAW
OF ENFORCEMENT OF PRISON SENTENCES
The normative Portuguese framework is based on an idea of equality
before the law (Article 13 Constitution
of the Portuguese Republic) which, in a
first analysis, apparently renders away
from the questioning of differentiation,
particularly gender differentiation. It is,
however, common ground that, beyond
legal equality there is, and there must
be, a healthy material inequality that
guarantees the accomplishment of positive discrimination. Based on these
assertions, and taking into account
the Portuguese penitentiary context,
we propose in this study to investigate
aspects of the law which are, in its letter,
neutral, but may entail special protections or, on the contrary, challenges to
the female prison population. Similarly,
jurisprudential research will be carried
out in the search for decision-making elements that can be identified as
specially addressed to the female sex,
either in their favour or in their detriment. The aim of this study is, solely,
to research legislation associated with
the enforcement of prison sentences, in
an attempt to unveil and systematize
norms that may deserve a gendered
reading, beyond the apparently innocuous character of their letter in terms of
legal formulation. Available case law will
also be researched in order to ascertain
whether and how, when the enforcement of prison sentences is at stake,
the female prison population receives
differentiated treatment according to
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their sex, in a (re)reading of the law, Sandra Tavares
by its enforcer. The aim is to investigate UCP/CRP/ED
the extent to which the female variable
weighs on judicial decision-making in
the enforcement of prison sentences.
This is a prospective study based in
the analysis of legal and case-law documents. From the data obtained in the
researches carried out, we will try to
elaborate theory, either in the sense of
the adequacy of the law, the need for
its change at the normative level, or
the need for the adequacy of its application at the jurisprudential level.Our
main goal is to construct a theory able
to protect women’s rights in penitentiary environments.
Keywords: Female Prison Population,
Enforcement of Prison Sentences, Law,
Case-Law, Women Rights.
COIMBRA 2020
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 028M12020
EMOTIONS, AFFECTIONS, AND PSYCHOPATHY
AMONG FEMALE PRISONERS
Marina Leonor Pinheiro
University of Minho, Gualtar Campus,
Braga
& Olga Cunha
North Lusíada University,
Porto
COIMBRA 2020
In the context of the challenge
launched for the II INTERNATIONAL
SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON
CULTURE - Is it a democratic prison?
and after analyzing the thematic axes,
it was decided to present a study that
investigates women in the prison system. Several studies have been developed to help understand psychopathy,
however, there is still a gap in the
integration of such a concept in affective dimensions, as well as a scarcity
of surveys conducted in the female
population. Thus, in this study, we
aimed to understand affections and
emotions associated with female psychopathy. Sixty-three women confined
to prison, located in the North region
of Portugal, participated in this study.
Participants were assessed using the
Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), the Levenson’s Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP), and
the Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R). Results showed that
only nine women presented moderate
scores of psychopathy. This result corroborates existing investigations that
point to lower levels of psychopathic
traits among the female population.
Cultural issues were also highlighted
since none of the women in the study
had scores above 30 (PCL-R), as well as
differences in the classification of men
and women with traits of psychopathy
using the score of 30 (PCL-R). Moreover,
women with higher psychopathy scores
revealed deficits in positive emotional
abilities (e.g. “proud”, “guilt”), and secondary psychopathy was related with
a predominance of negative affection
(“annoyed,” “repulse,” and “nervous”).
On the other hand, positive affection
and the “excited” and “proud” emotions
were related to primary psychopathy,
which is not a surprising result, as primary psychopaths act intentionally to
maximize their gains and excitement. In
the future, it would be useful to develop
more effective instruments to assess
emotions and affections in female psychopaths. Furthermore, it is essential
to know the emotional process in psychopathy in a deeper way, identifying
precursors of early psychopathic traits,
in which intervention and prevention
can be implemented more effectively.
This study raises questions related to
the “semantic aphasia” exhibited in
people with psychopathic traits, that is,
the psychopath as not being able to feel
emotions (or experiencing only weak
variants of that emotion) may not be
able to accurately report the components of interpersonal psychopathy, and
it can be problematic to ask these individuals to report emotions they never
felt. These results raise questions about
the use of self-report instruments with
this population.
Keywords: Psychopathy, Affections, Emotions,
Female Prisoners.
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WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
Ref.: 010M12020
WOMEN AND DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY IN CHILE.
DIMENSIONS OF PUNISHMENT AND DISCRIMINATION
The paper is focused on women
deprived of liberty in Chile and the
discrimination that the prison system
supposes for them. Firstly, a characterization of those women will be made.
Secondly, the way law confronts them
will be presented. In addition, the implications of the confinement on their
personal lives analyzed. Specific discriminations will be mentioned, such
as their living conditions, the situation
regarding their sexual and reproductive
rights, health conditions, maternity, etc.
Attention will also be paid to discipline
and punishment conditions, and to
their access to educational and training programs. This study is based on
statistical data obtained from the Chilean Gendarmerie, on the consultation
of penitentiary regulations and judicial
sentences, and on the resolutions of
national and international organizations on Chile. Prisons are institutions
designed by men and for men, and similar control and security measures are
applied indiscriminately for both men
and women, even though they have
different criminological profiles. There
is a strong intolerance to disobedience
and insubordination towards women,
which are punished harshly, due to
the common understanding that they
should behave more obediently. Female
prisoners are seen as deviants from the
traditional social roles assigned to them.
Similarly, prisons do not guarantee (and
many times violate) women’s sexual
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and reproductive health and limit their Alicia Alonso Merino
autonomy rights. On the other hand, UBA – University of Buenos Aires
training programs reproduce gender
roles and do not offer them opportunities to start an autonomous life professionally once they are released. The
specific needs of women most of the
time are not respected. All the above
constitutes a violation of international
regulations that enshrine the principle of equal rights between men and
women. According to the recommendations of international organizations,
gender perspective should be implemented in prison regulations to reduce
the historical discriminatory impact
that imprisonment could have against
women. The hard conditions imposed
by the prison are considerably worse
in their case, generating irreparable
damage not only to them and to their
families but to the entire society.
Keywords: Women, Prison, Gender,
Discrimination.
COIMBRA 2020
WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 041M12020
GENDER SPECIFICITIES IN CRIMINOGENIC NEEDS
Inês Marques
& Jorge Quintas
Faculty of Law University of Porto
COIMBRA 2020
Risk assessment and offender rehabilitation are commonly assumed as
gender-neutral, even though the empirical evidence was mostly collected from
samples of delinquent men or a disproportionate percentage of men compared
to females. However, alternative lines of
scientific criminological research have
been motivated by the growing presence of the female gender in the criminal justice systems. This growth caused
an even bigger belief that the female
recidivism risk factors and criminogenic
needs may be gender-responsive. The
present study aims to compare the
criminogenic needs between female
and male gender. Specifically, it was
intended to verify whether or not there
were gender-responsive criminal needs.
In addition, we sought to verify the
psychometric properties of the tool for
assessing criminogenic needs, namely
its predictive valid it, in relation to misconduct in the prison context. The risk
assessment tool, the Women’s Risk/
Needs Assessment, developed by the
National Institute of Corrections (USA)
and the University of Cincinnati. This
tool, in its institutional version, includes
most of the main factors responsive to
gender that emerged from the literature
on the paths of women, addressing a
wide range of family, relational, economic, social and psychological factors.
This tool was applied to 151 individuals
imprisoned (83 women and 68 men) in
two prisons, based on an in-depth inter-
view that allows an analysis of criminogenic needs, including the neutral
and the gender-responsive. The results
show that female inmates have more
gender-responsive criminal needs in the
field of Employment/Finance, History
of Mental Illness, Depression/Anxiety,
Abuse and Trauma and Parental Stress.
In contrast, male inmates have higher
scores on major neutral criminogenic
needs as Criminal History, Antisocial
Friends, and Drug Abuse. Regarding the
psychometric properties of the WRNA,
the short-term ability to predict disciplinary offenses is overall reduced.
Results are discussed and analyzed
based on the empirical literature and
related evidence produced within the
WRNA and the differences between
male and female offenders. Finally, the
limitations of the methodology applied
are raised and suggestions for future
investigations mentioned.
Keywords: Criminogenic Needs,
Gender Responsive Needs, Neutral Needs,
Risk Assessment, Women’s Risk/Needs
Assessment.
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MASSIVE
INCARCERATION,
PRISON REFORM
POLICIES
AND PENAL
ABOLITIONISM
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MASSIVE INCARCERATION, PRISON REFORM POLICIES
AND PENAL ABOLITIONISM
Ref.: 022M22020
THE REDUCE OF SENTENCE TIME TO BE SERVICED THROUGH READING:
CONTRIBUTIONS, OBSTACLES AND RESOCIALIZATION
The increase of the Brazilian inmate
population in the last few years has
exposed the already known problems
of the national prison system, such
as overcrowding, the violence of all
kinds, lack of proper medical or legal
assistance, bad quality meal, and also
the absence of work and resocialization programs. Thus, despite the crime
committed, Brazilian Law guarantee to
the inmates the constitutional rights to
work and study, which are important
elements to make their resocialization
and return to harmonic social coexistence. This paper aims to present the
program named “Remição de pena pela
leitura”, whose purpose is to reduce
sentence time to be serviced through
reading, following some criteria. We
will show the program pros and cons
regarding its effectiveness as a method
for resocialization. We applied quality
investigation methods, and, regarding
its aim, this paper is an exploratory
study. There was three steps: (i) bibliographic research via both Google
academy and documental research
via the Education, Culture and Sports
Coordinating Body of the National Penitentiary Department (DEPEN/MJSP);
(ii) analysis of legal documents and
legislation for fulling understanding
of the theme; and (iii) studying of the
program and other expansion projects. Reading the theoretical information, available on the references, we
created a word clouding with the most
common and relevant words: resocial-
ization, social integration, redemption,
waiver, reading, prison, full establishment, redemption through studying,
redemption through working, reeducation, inmate, penitentiary, prison
library, reading room, review, educational practices, inmate population, and
expansion projects. We observed the
following obstacles to the program: (i)
low level of education of the inmates;
(ii) lack of proper prison library or reading room; (iii) lack of public policy for
a prison system that invest in projects
for social reintegration and reeducation
of inmates; and (iv) criminal enforcement body crew focused only on safety
and security, not education. The most
relevant inputs of the project are: (i)
inmate resocialization and reduction of
literacy gaps; (ii) increase in inmate
self-esteem, essential for later social
coexistence; (iii) it makes possible to
switch lazy moments for studying and
knowledge ones; and (iv) redemption
through reading has proved to smooth
problems caused by over-imprisonment.
People away from society must have
their rights reassured, and, thus, they
must not be kept away from knowledge.
Reading can provide freedom, autonomy, creation of good values, knowledge of the word, how to act in order to
evolve as humans more creatives and
critical. The “Remição de pena pela leitura” program is something that can be
effective to help inmates changing their
path after jail time
Hercules Guimarães
Honorato
War College of Rio de Janeiro
& Heitor Campos
Guimarães
OAB-SP 382066
Keywords: Inmates Individuals, Sentence Time
To Be Serviced Reduce Through Reading,
Resocialization, Prison System.
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MASSIVE INCARCERATION, PRISON REFORM POLICIES
AND PENAL ABOLITIONISM
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 024M22020
APAC’S:
A SOCIO-LEGAL ANALYSIS FOR THE CREATION
OF PUBLIC POLICIES TOWARDS RESOCIALIZATION
Renata Pereira de Macedo
Catholic Pontifical University
of Minas Gerais
COIMBRA 2020
Law is a science that aims to contribute to the evolution and development
of society, analyzing human behavior
and social life. The penal system should
re-socialize individuals who may commit crimes, to reinsert them into society
and guarantee social peace. The development of an efficient public policy for
the re-socialization of prisoners must
mean developing the country, society,
with the inclusion of everyone in the
benefits provided by progress. The
development of a public policy, provided
with resources, could prescribe forms of
behavior and attitudes to be adopted
by the State and by the private initiative, encouraging the work of prisoners,
with the aim of re-socializing them and
generating wealth for citizens In this
sense, the Association of Assistance to
Convicts (APAC) is the ideal model for
the true re-socialization of individuals
who have committed a crime, since
re-educated people work, study and
become professionals, avoiding idleness. The central point of the work is
not really the lack of criminal establishments, but of criminal establishments
that really provide a change in the
thinking of those who commit crimes.
APAC could be the “proposed alternative measure” to become the main public policy for the improvement of the
Brazilian prison system since it would
reduce social inequalities, harmonize
the coexistence between reeducates
and society, as well as defend democ-
racy. APAC is an innovative and differentiated method to address the prison
issue. The main focus, if adopted as a
public policy, would be the condemned
individual who today is corrupted, but
who tomorrow may become a better
human being so that he does not commit crimes again. The purpose of this
research tends to awaken in readers
a sense of reflection and justice. The
analysis in the first moment makes us
want to apply the Law of Talion, but the
understanding that there is an alternative for the resocialization of individuals,
makes us understand that the existing legislation is valid and fair, but its
application is ineffective and inefficient.
Therefore, the main objective of the
socio-legal analysis is to highlight that
Law combined with other sciences, such
as Economics, can contribute to the
creation of a public policy as an alternative to the existing prison system,
not aiming at the creation of vaguer in
the penal system, but the creation of a
method that contributes to the educational, social, ethical and moral training
of marginalized individuals.
Keywords: Resocialization, Public policy, Law,
Penal system, Criminal law.
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MASSIVE INCARCERATION, PRISON REFORM POLICIES
AND PENAL ABOLITIONISM
Ref.: 031M22020
THE STATE AND CRIME:
A STUDY ON CRIMINAL RECIDIVISM AND PUBLIC POLICIES
This article intended to analyze why
individuals who have already served
time in a closed prison, or who are serving an open/semi-open regime, resort
back to crime instead of using existing
public policies. In addition, it was made
an attempt to create a general apparatus of the public policies that currently
work in the re-socialization of prisoners or formal prisoners in Fortaleza –CE,
as well as to make reflections on the
role of the psychologist in this matter
with the aid of the document analysis
methodology through the analysis of
documents such as newspapers, documentaries, government websites and
statistical data, as well as qualitative
research, where we analyzed recidivism
data, investigated hypotheses for this
phenomenon and analyzed the effectiveness of public policies. The results
showed that criminal recidivism rates
are high; moreover, the resolution to
this phenomenon still appears in the
sense of arresting and punishing. Public
policies have proven to be important
tools to change this reality, as long as
they are aligned with the real needs of
these subjects and network with the
other basic policies. We also perceived
the enormous difficulties that prisoners who have already served their
sentences or who change their regime
(to open or semi-open) face: lack of
opportunities, unemployment, prejudice, misery, the ineffectiveness of
other basic public policies (health, edu-
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cation, housing) and so many others, Dinnah Amaro de Lima
are factors that contribute to the return University of Fortaleza - UNIFOR
to crime. So, it is possible to think that
the great challenge for public policies,
for professionals in the area and society as a whole, is to provide a social
environment that meets the needs of
individuals more than crime does. The
psychologists have an essential role
in this theme because they have the
tools –if the opening is given so that
they can be used effectively –to enable
these individuals to be seen as subjects
of rights, allowing them the opportunity
to be heard, mediating their voices and
desires and bringing this to the realm of
public policies and still promoting critical discussion about this topic in society.
Keywords: Criminal Recidivism, Public Policies,
Resocialization, Crime.
COIMBRA 2020
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
PARENTALITY’
EXPERIENCE
IN THE PRISON
CONTEXT
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PARENTALITY’ EXPERIENCE IN THE PRISON CONTEXT
Ref.: 035M22020
DYNAMICS FOR INFORMATION ACCESS AND READING PRACTICES
AT THE REFERENCE CENTER FOR PREGNANT WOMEN DEPRIVED
OF LIBERTY (CRGPL) IN VESPASIANO/MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL
This paper introduces the Reference
Center for Pregnant Women Deprived of
Liberty (CRGPL) in Vespasiano, a town in
the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, with a
discussion of the way the women –pregnant or lactating ones –who serve time
in this space establish certain dynamics
for searching and accessing information
and knowledge production. In methodological terms, the research is characterized as a case study supported by
semi-structured interviews. The CRGPL
(an acronym formed from the center’s
name in Brazilian Portuguese) was created in January 2009 to receive pregnant and lactating prisoners and to offer
them humanized prison treatments.
The place can receive 80 women and
their children until they reach 1 (one)
year of age. In addition to having an
upstanding prison structure in contrast
to traditional institutions, the CRGPL
maintains a small library, whose collection includes books on various topics.
As a result, reading in a prison setting
is configured as a modulated practice,
affected by different intents and functions: learning, entertainment, edification, and sociability. Regarding the
results, it was possible to verify that the
main concern for the women with whom
we talked is the future of their children
and their subsequent reinsertion in the
traditional prison system following the
gestation period. Consequently, as the
CRGPL also includes a legal department,
the main informational needs of these
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women revolve around getting infor- Andreza Gonçalves Barbosa
mation about their rights and those of & Fabrício José Nascimento
their children. Another measured result Federal University of Minas Gerais
suggests that, although the Brazilian - UFMG
prison system supports humanitarian
initiatives, as the one served in the
Reference Center for Pregnant Women
deprived of Liberty (CRGPL), prison
institutions in the country are not yet
prepared to adequately welcome convicted women or to consider their specific needs. That is largely due to sexist
matrixes that guide society, a reality
that, even today, allows women, especially pregnant women, to serve their
sentences in mixed prisons.
Keywords: Maternity in Prison, Reference
Center for Pregnant Women Deprived
of Liberty, Information Access in Prison,
Reading in Prison, Prison Library.
COIMBRA 2020
PARENTALITY’ EXPERIENCE IN THE PRISON CONTEXT
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 183M22020
PREGNANT AND POSTPARTUM WOMEN INCARCERATED
IN RIO DE JANEIRO
Malu Stanchi
Catholic Pontifical University
of Rio de Janeiro
COIMBRA 2020
In 2016, official data produced by
Brazilian government revealed that
42,355 women are deprived of their
liberty in Brazil, with an overcrowding
rate exceeding the percentage of 156%
in Women’s prisons. Between the years
2000 and 2016, the rate of Brazilian
imprisonment of women increased by
656%, presenting Rio de Janeiro as
the fourth federal state with the largest
female incarceration policy. Almost half
of these women are imprisoned without conviction and, in the state of Rio
de Janeiro, 65% of women deprived of
their liberty are black. Countless are in
the gestational period or in the postpartum period. Based on the analytical developments of decolonial authors
about racism and sexism as forms of
oppression structuring institutional
systems, which reinvent and update
colonial-patriarchal practices in prison
nowadays, this investigation aims to
evaluate the multiple forms of obstetric
violence suffered by women deprived of
their liberty in Rio de Janeiro. Therefore, the speeches of pregnant women
deprived of liberty at Talavera Bruce
Penal Institution were considered centrally, which had been shared with the
author in a survey carried out at the
unit in 2018. Judicial custody hearings
decisions in Rio de Janeiro were also
analyzed, between March and July 2018,
whose defendants are pregnant women
or mothers of children up to 12 years
old. Previously characterized as subsidiary to the punitive dynamics, black
women now integrate, along with black
men, the central nucleus in the compo-
sition of the figure of the enemy and the
target of control and extermination by
racially marked public security racists
policies. Selective criminalization and
prison system think of black women as
an active pole of widespread suspicion,
drawing on combined racial and gender
indicators to condemn these women to
death in life or to physical death in penal
institutions. In this conjuncture of mass
incarceration and selective punishment,
preventive confinement of pregnant
women and women in the puerperium
period is frequent, meaning complete
disregard for the laws and leading
cases of the Federal Supreme Court
on the matter. In addition to implying
the immediate execution of a sentence
also for the babys, who are subjected
to improper conditions in prison, the
deprivation of freedom of pregnant and
postpartum women implies countless
restrictions and stigmas that culminate
in life risks. For example, the case of
Bárbara Oliveira that went into labor
and gave birth to her baby in an isolation cell at the Instituto Penal Talavera
Bruce, in Rio de Janeiro, 2015, without
any medical care and totally alone. Lack
of access to the prenatal program, poor
medical, food, hygiene and psychological support throughout the gestation
period, inhuman conditions during
childbirth and after the baby is born
are constant violations in the Women’s
prisons, indicating the worsening and
overlapping of the effects of punitive
dynamics on female bodies
Keywords: Mass Incarceration, Obstetric
Violence, Racism, Decolonial Theory, Sexism.
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PARENTALITY’ EXPERIENCE IN THE PRISON CONTEXT
Ref.: 105M22020
MOTHERS INCARCERATED IN BRAZIL, ANALYSIS FROM THE SERVICES
OF PUBLIC DEFENDER OF SÃO PAULO
This research is the result of inquiries
regarding the various rights violations
suffered by mothers in prison system
in the State of São Paulo / Brazil. In
face of many complaints of right violations, the Public Defender’s Office
of São Paulo created the institutional
policy named “Mothers in Jail”, constituted through dialogues between many
entities in favor of the rights of women
in jail, with the objective of establishing deliberations that meet the needs
of incarcerated mothers and their children, mitigating the impacts of incarceration. The objective of this study
was to analyze the historical process
of the Public Defender’s Office in Brazil, focusing on São Paulo, evaluating
the central deliberations of the policy
“Mothers in Jail”, from their motivations
for creation, institutional organization,
to the statistical reports corresponding
to the particularities of the incarcerated
mothers. In general, it discusses restorative justice, criminal abolitionism and
the Bangkok Rules. Finally, to better get
into the social reality, interviews were
made with professionals who work in
the Public Defender’s Office and are
directly connected to the “Mothers in
Jail” policy. The research was based on
the dialectical method, making a critical
analysis on the subject. The data collection was made through a bibliographic
survey, evaluation of statistical reports,
making and transcribing the interviews.
The data analysis indicates that there
are 15,104 women imprisoned in the
state of São Paulo, making it the largest
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female prison population in the country. Hellen Pereira Lara
Brazil has had an increase of 656% in Catholic Pontifical University
female imprisonment in the past sixteen of Sao Paulo - PUC
years, the majority of whom are young
black or brown women with low-level
schooling, who have had no formal job,
and 63% are spending time for drug
trafficking. In the state of São Paulo,
81% of women in prison are mothers
and 56% were responsible for providing
for their children. Most of them were
detained with small amounts of drugs,
a factor attributed to three variables:
chemical addiction, drug trafficking
to help increase family income; and
transporting drugs into men’s prisons
at the request of their partners. Another
important fact exposed was the social
abandonment that these women face
when they are arrested, both by the
family and by the partner. Among the
interviews, we observed several reports
of perverse violations towards incarcerated mothers and their children. The
stigma that women do not commit
crime is presented in all the interviews’
statements, stating that the judiciary
is more strict in applying penalties to
women compared to men. It can be
concluded that the actions presented
by “Mothers in Jail” are shown as an
important tool in the fight against the
violations of rights suffered by women
and their families, bringing to light
neglected and hidden issues within the
Brazilian female prison system.
Keywords: Public Policies, Mothers in Jail,
Public Defender of the State of São Paulo/Brasil.
COIMBRA 2020
PARENTALITY’ EXPERIENCE IN THE PRISON CONTEXT
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 131M22020
WOMEN OR MOTHERS?
VISIBILITY OF MOTHERHOOD AND INVISIBILITY
OF THE FEMALE GENDER IN THE ITALIAN PENITENTIARY LAW
Costanza Agnella
PhD Student in Law and Institutions
– University of Turin, Italy
COIMBRA 2020
My proposal concerns an analysis
of the Italian penitentiary law regarding female detention, with the aim
of highlighting the aspects of the law
which provide for specific treatment
for women prisoners and the aspects
that seem to express the indifference of
the Italian penitentiary system towards
women. From a methodological point of
view, I will analyze the legislation that
regulates the life of women in Italian
prisons with the interpretative categories of the sociology of law and gender
studies, mainly using the theoretical
perspectives of legal feminism that
have dealt with sexual difference in law
(Pitch, 2010; Minow, 1990). Specifically,
in my presentation I will focus on how
the Italian penitentiary law provides for
a specific discipline for women prisoners
mainly in the context of the protection
of the maternity of restricted women. In
fact, in Italy, the maternity of women
prisoners is protected under various
aspects of the prison life of women:
the system provides for the possibility
of women to keep small children with
them in prison sections or even in special institutions with attenuated custody,
the possibility for women prisoners to
be admitted to take care of their children outside the prison during the day,
the possibility for interned mothers to
assist young or severely disabled children during specialist medical visits, the
possibility for convicted mothers to be
admitted to particular forms of home
detention aimed at the care of young
children or children with serious disabilities. The same measures are sometimes provided for father prisoners and
are provided only in a residual form,
when the mother has died or is unable
to take care of the children. In my presentation, therefore, I will stress that
the Italian penitentiary system deals
with the maternity of women prisoners,
but not with other aspects of women’s
lives, remaining basically indifferent to
women that are not mothers. In conclusion, I will highlight how, in accordance
with some empirical research conducted
on female detention in Italian prisons
(Ronconi and Zuffa, 2020; Ronconi and
Zuffa, 2014), the penitentiary context
-which in this case is expressed in the
rules governing the penitentiary system
-tends to conceive motherhood as an
essential element of the prison treatment for women prisoners, who are
encouraged, symbolically, to become –
or to become again –”good mothers”. I
will also emphasize how the Italian penitentiary system tends to give women
prisoners a primary role in childcare, a
role still mainly assigned to women in
contemporary societies.
Keywords: Women in Prison, Italian
Penitentiary Law, Motherhood, Sexual
Difference, Gender.
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MOTHERS IN PRISON AND INVISIBLE CHILDREN.
THE PROCESS OF INHERITED STIGMA IN MOTHERHOOD IN PRISON
This document presents the results
and conclusions of the research carried
out in my doctoral thesis entitled “Mothers in prison and invisible children. The
process of inherited stigma in motherhood in prison” which concluded at
the end of 2019. It specifically studies
the case of motherhood in prison, as
a process involving criminal institutions, women who have been criminalized and their children who are born
and live with them there during their
first years of life. The general objective that was pursued was “Analyze the
social processes that occur around the
phenomenon of motherhood in prison”,
from the perspective of symbolic interactionism, the theory of stigma and
the labeling approach, under the initial
assumption that the stigma of Mothers
are socially inherited to their children,
with all the discrediting implications
that this implies. What was initially
intended was to identify the actors and
social elements that converge around
motherhood in prison, paying special
attention to the labels to which women
have been subjected before and during
their confinement. In order to understand the stigma of children, it has
been necessary to analyze the stigma
of their mothers as a factor that, after
being transmitted, is impregnated in
their own identity, which in turn would
express itself individually in the future.
It is important to mention that studies
on deviant behavior and labeling have
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been directed mainly at the adult pop- Carlos Augusto Hernández
ulation, so this work is an effort to test Armas
the concepts already generated, in a Autonomous University of State
population with a primal identity, this of Hidalgo
means the possibility of explaining the
genesis of the stigma, without the justification that there is deviant behavior that precedes it. It is a qualitative
research, based on the methodological
precepts of grounded theory and symbolic interactionism, and focused on
the micro-sociological details called by
Goffman the order of interaction, which
is produced in everyday life and face-toface relationships. The data collection
instruments were the in-depth interview and participant observation and
were applied through a theoretical sampling procedure to 14 women deprived
of their liberty, 14 boys and girls living
with them, 1 girl who was born and
lived there but now lives abroad and 3
members of the penal institution staff.
The setting was the Pachuca de Soto
Social Reintegration Center, in Hidalgo,
Mexico, specifically in the women’s area,
and the fieldwork lasted approximately
ten months.
Keywords: Stigma, Motherhood, Invisible
Children, Labeling Approach, Prison.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 164M22020
BANGKOK RULES AND MIGRANT WOMEN IMPRISONED
IN SÃO PAULO
Carolina Piccolotto Galib
PUC – CAMPINAS
& Luís Renato Vedovato
UNICAMP
COIMBRA 2020
The United Nations Rules for the treatment of women prisoners and non-custodial measures for women offenders
(Bangkok Rules) were inspired by principles contained in several United Nations
conventions. These rules are addressed
to penitentiary authorities and criminal
justice agencies, which include those
responsible for formulating public policies, legislators, the prosecutor’s office,
the judiciary and officials charged with
overseeing probation, involved in the
administration of sentences non-custodial and non-custodial measures
(CNJ, 2016, p.19). According to data
collected from July to December 2019,
there are 203 women imprisoned in the
prison system of the State of São Paulo
(INFOPEN, 2019). According to this
survey, 134 women are from American
countries, such as Bolivia (66 women),
Colombia (18 women), Paraguay (13
women) and Venezuela (14 women),
but there are also women from Europe
(11 women), Asia (9 women), Africa
(48 women) and Oceania (1 woman).
According to a survey by the Instituto
Terra Trabalho e Cidadania (ITTC), several of the women serving time in the
São Paulo prison system were arrested
for international drug trafficking. There
is a common trait between this type of
crime, which is the need to supplement
the income since many are responsible for supporting the family. However,
several of them are also victims of
human trafficking, they submit to the
function against their will (ITTC, 2019).
This paper aims to analyze whether the
State, through its institutions of the
justice system, complies with the minimum rules established by international
law, as well as the rules of domestic law,
with regard to the dignified treatment of
incarcerated migrant women. It seeks
to understand whether the fact of being
a migrant prevents the attainment of
the rights of criminal execution, such
as, for example, the progression of the
sentence and the right to temporary
exits. As a methodology, bibliographic
research is used, based on theoretical
references on the theme, as well as
exploratory, based on the analysis of
data provided by the National Penitentiary Department (DEPEN) and NGOs
working in the area.
Keywords: Woman, Bangkok Rules,
Imprisoned Migrant, International Law.
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EDUCATION
AND TRAINING
IN PRISON
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PRISON
Ref.: 004M22020
PRISON EDUCATION AS A CRIMINAL REMEMBER INSTRUMENT:
REFLECTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES IN THE EJA MODALITY
The reflection proposed in this text
results in studies done in the prison
environment, in the Asces-Unita law
course. The course undertaken in the
research led us to enter the context of
prison education as an instrument of
penal remission in the Brazilian penitentiary system. Starting from what we
know, from the accumulated theory on
the subject, from studies promoted as
a law student and from professional
experience as a teacher in the municipal network of Caruaru, working in the
Youth and Adult Education modality;
we question what is the role of prison
education, in the EJA modality, as an
instrument for the remission of the sentence, for the re-socialization process.
For Onofre (2015) the big challenge is
to think about education for people in
situations of deprivation and restriction of freedom in a space where the
humanization of being is neglected by
different situations, such as overcrowding and lack of infrastructure resulting
the lack of definition of institutional
responsibility for educational assistance (SCARFÓ, 2008). In this sense,
the author explains that the prison is
a “peculiar space, where two logics are
opposed to what the rehabilitation process means: the fundamental principle
of education, which is essentially transformative, and the prison culture, which
aims to adapt the individual to prison
”(Onofre, 2015, p. 239). Faced with this
challenge, we understand that penal
remission and resocialization must take
place through prison education, in the
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EJA modality, conducted by the artic- Mário José Disnard da Silva
ulating and intersectoral thread using
the concept of problematized resocialization from a humanized and pedagogical point of view. We understand that
it is the State’s obligation to combat
all forms of impunity for crimes committed against society and against the
State; however, we add to the voices
that question the punishment model
centered on the confinement of human
beings in prison units as a response,
not only to the alleged growth of organized crime in Brazil, but to the increase
in social and interpersonal conflicts
resulting from economic, ethnic-racial
inequalities. , regional, gender, sexual
orientation, age, and lack of access
to basic rights. We base ourselves on
Paulo Freire for the principle of education, which is essentially transforming, emancipatory and enabling us to
be more; understanding that, for this
purpose, educational practices must
be developed beyond the model of the
school system; because in this space,
where other unrecognized educational
processes also occur, one must consider
conflicts, life experiences and expectations that can promote interactions
between individuals, becoming an
inclusive social education policy. In this
sense, Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the
Oppressed (1970) makes a great contribution because it makes us understand
that the ‘banking concept of education
serves as an instrument for oppression”.
Keywords: Prison Education, Penal Remission,
Resocialization.
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WEAVING NETWORKS OF AFFECTION:
EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT IN PRISON
IN RIO GRANDE/RIO GRANDE DO SUL
Raylene Barbosa Moreira
FURG
COIMBRA 2020
The job, education and gender relations in places of deprivation of liberty is
the central topic of this article; the main
objective is to understand the union of
women who work with education in
these spaces, and their different identities and cultures. The demands of Feminist Studies over the years demonstrate
that women experience is influenced
by patriarchal culture in home, work,
in family, social and professional relationships. This accumulation of systematized knowledge gives us the following
questions: Who are the workers women
in spaces of deprivation of liberty? How
do interpersonal and institutional relationships take place? What are the prerequisites and knowledges for these
professionals to work in these spaces
and how do the situations of oppression
experienced in their daily lives affect
the development of their work? The
ourstarting point is listen in to women
who build a job and their perspectives
talking about a masculine mixed prison.
We call it masculine, because we believe
that it is thought by men and for men,
as well as when we consider the context of a patriarchal society in which we
are inserted. We deal specifically with
women who are working on an educational model based on Paulo Freire
and his methods, seeking to restructure a system that excludes graduates
from that system. The research is situated in the Rio Grande State Prison (a
municipality in the extreme south of Rio
Grande do Sul / Brazil). Therefore, the
research starts from the experience of
women and their speeches, considering
their entire trajectory within their workspace, structuring the study according
to the educational regulations of this
space, projects that they sought to
structure, notes and points in common
between these workers women and the
context of education in prison and their
particularities. The methodology used
consists in an ethnography, a significant
study of the daily life of these women,
in its qualitative perspective, building
the research from the perspective of the
subjects. We can conclude about the
union of women in this space, who tirelessly seeks and within the possibilities
of a scarcity of space and resources, to
put into practice an educational model
proposed by law, from a perspective of
popular education. They are women of
struggle, who fight for the mass incarceration to be denaturalized and swim
against the current to deconstruct the
power relations that are in this place.
Keywords: Work, Education, Gender Relations,
Space of Deprivation of Liberty.
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PRISON
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INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT VIOLENCE
AND SECLUSION, IS EDUCATION A MITIGATING FACTOR?
For the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP, 2016), human
development consists in “the creation
of an environment in which people
can develop their maximum potential
and lead a productive and creative life
according to their needs and interests”.
It requires the satisfaction of certain
basic needs: health, education, food,
housing with minimum services, an
adequate income to cover them, and a
freedom to express ideas and convictions. However, not only the latter is
necessary for this development. Lack
of violence in all its forms -intrafamilial, of the common law (robbery, injury,
homicide, property crime, kidnapping
and rape), gender violence, violence
generated by illicit activities (drug trafficking, fuel theft (gasoline, gas) -also
directly increases in individuals that
desired progress. Among the many factors that affect integral human development, lack of education becomes
one of these factors in all its current
aspects, schooled and not schooled.
The importance of this factor is such
that the UNDP (2016) in its Sustainable
Development Goal (SDO) for education,
indicates that “... education is one of
the most powerful and proven engines
to guarantee sustainable development”.
Based on these ideas, we have taken up
a research hypothesis, in which we propose to review the relationship between
violence and education and verify that
the latter is a mitigating factor that
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allows a comprehensive human devel- Alberto I. Pierdant
opment, avoiding as much as possible, Rodríguez
when committing a crime, imprison- Autonomous Metropolitan University
ment. Violence reduction and there- Campus Xochimilco
fore of reclusion in a society, implies
the presence, among other diverse
factors, of two triggers, economic and
educational. The latter is for us one of
the factors of study, which we consider
essential to reduce violence and prison
and generate an integral human development. This research aims to understand if there is a relationship between
a higher level of education in a society
and lower levels of violence resulting
in a greater integral human development. Our study society is formed by
the inhabitants of the state of Oaxaca
in Mexico. It includes a period of study
from 2009 to 2017. This work will show
the first results for this relation violence
–education –prison.
Keywords: Human Development, Education,
Violence, Prison.
COIMBRA 2020
EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PRISON
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 140M12020
INNOVATION IN THE PRISON EDUCATION PROCESS
Tiago Leitão,
Alexandra Gomes
& Rita Martins
IPS – Innovative Prison Systems
COIMBRA 2020
Prison is known to be one of the most
complex and challenging environments
to deliver and promote education. This is
due, not only because of the infrastructure, strict security, though conditions,
deprivation of liberty, inmate’s low qualifications, shorter duration of classes,
but also due to the constraints posed
to education professionals in terms of
pedagogic tools, methods and technology, among others. The importance of
education for inmates is as high as the
challenges to receive it properly. Nonetheless, prison services and staff with
their array of key stakeholders (e.g.,
schools, training providers, NGOs and
others), continuously, manage to offer
a portfolio of educational activities, that
range from informal to school education
and from vocational training to higher
education. The huge effort makes the
education portfolio available, but availability does not mean attractiveness,
suitability, usefulness or effectiveness.
Thus, frequently prison services and
key stakeholders are confronted with
inmates’ lack of interest, enrolment,
absenteeism, drop out and lack of success in their educational path. Education
usually competes with other activities
that are offered, such as prison work
or even “hanging around” with fellow
inmates’. IDECOM focused on empowering multi-agency and multidisciplinary
teams on four key competencies: innovation, entrepreneurship (sense of initiative), teamwork and communication.
These competencies were identified to
enhance the co-creation of strategies
aiming to increase the educational
portfolio attractiveness, suitability, usefulness and effectiveness. Using innovative approaches such as games (e.g.
INNOPRIS) prison staff teams from
Moldova, Romania, and Turkey actively
engaged on a training course to tackle
the challenge of bringing innovation to
education delivery within the prison
context. The result was not only having
the project awarded as a good practice, by an Erasmus+ national agency,
but also having a catalog of effective
actions designed and implemented in
each country’s prison context. IDECOM
training course shows a path to trigger
the development of competences by
prison staff and their key stakeholders
that somehow would only be accessible
to wealthier industries and top managers in the public services.
Keywords: Prison Education, Staff Training,
Innovation, Educational Porfolio, Prison.
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PRISON
Ref.: 214M22020
EDUCATION POLICY FOR CHILDREN IN INDIA
The largest number of children are
illiterate, and it is a big challenge for
policymakers in India. The children are
engaged in different types of occupations. A large number of children are
working as domestic servants, in hazardous factories etc. Most of the children come from rural and poor family
background. The children of any country regard as the assets of that country.
The origin of the modern education system can be traced to the beginning of
the nineteenth century. In 1835, Lord
Macaulay passed the resolutions to
the establishment of schools teaching
European literature and science. These
schools became immediately popular
because of English education by some
of the educated Indians and particularly leaders like Raja Ram Mohan
Roy and others. The English education
schools helped to get into Government
services. This was mainly due to the
Proclamation issued by Lord Hardinge
in 1844 to serve in public offices that
were educated in English schools. In
India, the need to legislate for universal and compulsory education had been
in focus since 1911 when Gokhale Bill
for Elementary Education (GBEE) was
prepared. The first law on compulsory
education was the Bombay Municipality (Primary Education) Act, 1918.
Some princely states also had laws for
the promotion of education such as
The Baroda Education Act, 1893; The
Mysore Education Act, 1913.In Arti-
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cle 45 of the Constitution postulates Joy Prakash Chowdhuri
as a Directive Principle of State Policy Kalinga University, Raipur, India
(DPSP), the achievements of free and
compulsory education for all children
up to the age of 14 years. The Draft
National Education Policy was released
in May 2019 which was a revised version of 1992 education policy. The draft
includes a strong focus on teachers’
continuing professional development
and a push towards the greater access
for mother-tongue-based instruction.
A draft version of the revised National
Education Policy has been prepared. It
will be implemented after the approval
of the Parliament.
Keywords: New Education Policy, Education
for All, Teacher-Pupil Ratio, Expenditure
on Education, Drop-outs.
COIMBRA 2020
EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PRISON
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 008M22020
FEATURES AND SPECIFICS OF EDUCATION IN PLACES
OF LIBERTY DEPRIVATION
Andrey E. Zuev
Euroexpo AG
COIMBRA 2020
In modern society, education is considered as a priority area of state activity.
In relation to convicts serving sentences
in liberty deprivation places, it is one of
the main means of their correction and
re-socialization. The right to education
is a constitutional socio-economic right,
but the mechanism for its implementation has its own peculiarities in relation
to persons sentenced to imprisonment.
The education is not only a means of
increasing competitiveness on the labor
market in future, but also a necessary
condition for personality formation.
However, practice shows that for a
more complete realization of the legislative provisions relating to the rights
and interests of convicts in the process
of punishment, improvement of the
mechanisms for their implementation
is needed. The relevance of this topic is
to consider the problems of legal regulation and organization of education for
prisoners sentenced to imprisonment
in the context of reforming the penal
system and the use of new educational
technologies. Today, it is necessary to
ensure the implementation of the principles that are vital for the penitentiary
system: legality, humanism, democracy,
differentiation and individualization of
the execution of punishment. The criminal punishment should be considered
not only as a punishment for the crime
committed, but also as a process of
correction of convicted persons, as an
opportunity to prevent recidivism. It
should be taken into account that in
recent years there has been a process
of rejuvenation of persons serving sentences in prison. Given the fact that for
a considerable period of time, education
in Russia had no enough attention, the
number of people who didn’t receive
a general secondary education has
increased sharply. Moreover, a category
of people who can’t read or write and
have never attended school has been
formed. Naturally, they are more at risk
of committing offenses and crimes. In
the current conditions, the main tasks
and goals of training are:•when teaching, make a person who has stumbled,
often angry at the whole world, a fullfledged member of society;•to exclude
recidivism, new, repeated сomission of
a crime by this person;•to help young
people who find themselves in prison
realize their importance and usefulness,
to give them confidence in the possibility of entering universities; to give them
an education and profession. The peculiarity of teaching in places of detention is that not just students sit at their
desks, but people who have committed
crimes, have their own worldview, their
own concepts, and sometimes have a
broken psyche. Many of them have various types of chronic diseases. Therefore, the teaching methodology must
be built with these specifics in mind.
A teacher should have a democratic
style of work and behavior, especially
in schools where they are incarcerated.
They need to know and understand the
essence, purpose, and main directions
of education, possess such qualities as
comm.
Keywords: Education, Adult, Prison.
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PRISON
Ref.: 038M22020
RULES IN JUVENILE REHABILITATION FACILITIES
FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THEIR EMPLOYEES
AND ADOLESCENTS STAYING THERE
The research focuses on the perception of norms and rules by adolescents
staying in Juvenile Rehabilitation Facilities (JRF) and their educators. The
theoretical references of the research
problem are embedded in the theory of
social learning and concern the method
of creating norms and principles by adolescents staying in social rehabilitation
institutions and their educators (Ciccheti, Rogosch, 1996; Kompas, Hinden,
1995). The research problem concerns
perception, i.e. the scope of norms and
their content, as well as the confrontation and penetration of the worlds
of adolescents and educators. What
is specific, in Poland, the supervision
over at-risk youth involves the following
measures: offense (court proceedings),
supervision of a probation officer over
a family or person; Juvenile Rehabilitation Facilities (JRF) (for adolescents
aged between 12-18), youth detention centers (for adolescents under
18), prison. JRF “are intended only for
young people towards whom Family and
Juvenile Courts have applied (under the
Act on proceedings in juvenile cases)
an educational measure in the form of
placement in the JRF”. They are insti-
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tutions for minors who have commit- Marzanna Farnicka
ted criminal acts or show a high degree & Astina Koch
of maladjustment or social deviance. Zielona Góra University
The task of the facility is to eliminate
causes because of which the individual
was considered socially maladjusted.
These institutions are the next stage of
dealing with disorders of social development among adolescents. Although
these institutions are of educational and
rehabilitation nature, they are in fact
total institutions in which mechanisms
similar to those occurring in prison isolation occur, including the formation of
a specific subculture that defies general
norms and establishes own ones. The
research process was based on an interpretative approach. The Focus Group
Interview and the method of competent
judges were used to examine the educators. A controlled interview was used
as the research method for examining
the adolescents. It has been decided
that this will be the most complete
approach towards the phenomena and
processes examined in the research.
In the construction of the research
situation, both the interviews and the
questionnaire were based on categories
distinguished by Chomczyński (2015).
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RULES IN JUVENILE REHABILITATION FACILITIES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THEIR EMPLOYEES
AND ADOLESCENTS STAYING THERE
Marzanna Farnicka
& Astina Koch
Zielona Góra University
COIMBRA 2020
While analyzing the obtained qualitative
material, attempts have been made to
go beyond the limitations associated
with the adopted research model (loss
of objectivity, high contextuality and
relativity) using the method of competent judges. The accuracy of the judges’
opinions is a method of testing criterion
validity. To this end, interviews were
conducted with educators and adolescents on the rules formed in their JRF.
The research examined a group of 32
adolescents (boys) staying in the One of
the JRFand 7 educators (5 women and
2 men). The study was conducted in
the JRFin Poland (Lower Silesia, 2019)
The obtained research results indicate a similar perception of the rules
prevailing in the center by educators
and pupils. The results of the research,
despite the mixed methodology used
and the changing living environment of
modern teenagers (globalization and
functioning in cyberspace), confirmed
the previous results in the content layer
of the rules functioning in the center
(Granosik, Gulczyńska, Szczepanik,
2014; Moran, 2013; Thonberry, Lizotte,
Krohn, 1994). The educators indicated
a richer range of determinants of the
observed behaviors and the process
of creating rules. The pupils focused
mainly on situational factors and used
masking strategies, which indicates
the ongoing group processes towards
the formation of a subculture of pupils.
Furthermore the educators had some
knowledge about hidden code among
youth and try to use it, so this result
noticed the possibility of the prisonization process even in such organization
as Juvenile Rehabilitation Facilities.
Keywords: Subculture, Encarceration,
Juvenile Rehabilitation Facilities, Rules.
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MALADJUSTED ADOLESCENTS WITH DISABILITIES
IN THE JUVENILE REHABILITATION FACILITIES
The authors of the text attempt to discuss viduals in order to enable them to fulfill roles
the social maladjustment of adolescents and adequate to social expectations” (Kaminski,
their disability in institutional conditions. 2003; Konopczyński, 2008). Questions
There are no separate rehabilitation facilities were asked about the factors related to the
in Poland for people who are maladjusted educational and rehabilitation capacity of
and disabled at the same time. The study these institutions and some characteristic
presents the functioning of adolescents lost and founds which is possible to observe
with dual diagnosis/problems (a phenom- in JRC organized in such way. The paraenon occurring among addicts) in Juvenile digm to analyze is based on G. Goethals
Rehabilitation Facilities (JRF). In this case, work (1986). Since 2004 there has been a
however, dual diagnosis refers to individu- system of directing minors to appropriate
als who are socially maladjusted and have facilities in Poland. It operates throughout
some disability (mental, physical or sensory the country to ensure sufficiently quick
disability such as hearing impairment) or and easy cooperation between institutions
other limitations (lack of communication such as county authorities and rehabilitaskills, speaking in a dialect, Staniaszek, tion institutions of the Ministry of Education.
2018). In the presented study, “socially As of 1 January 2019, there are 94 Juvemaladjusted adolescents” are “a group of nile Rehabilitation Facilities (JRF) in Poland.
all minors who require special educational, Among them, there are 28 facilities for girls,
medical, and psychological methods, and 56 for boys, and 10 mixed facilities. 93 out
towards whom employers and public offices of 94 institutions are for adolescents in the
have to use special methods, and for whom intellectual norm, including 55 for boys, 28
educators have to find special techniques; for girls, and 10 mixed facilities. 20 facilities
all those who need something different are for minors with a mild mental disability:
from others” (Grzegorzewska, 1964; Kazdin, 13 for boys and 7 for girls. As a study was
Kagan, 1994). Social rehabilitation, on the presented the data about form statistic cenother hand, is “re-socialization of a faulty ter of Polish Government about all JRF and
socialized individual. The pedagogical activ- of 5 cases. Cases were random from the
ity focuses on reorienting attitudes, beliefs main base than we contact with educator’s
and behaviors of socially maladapted indi- who was responsible for that person during
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Astina Koch
& Marzanna Farnicka
Zielona Góra University
COIMBRA 2020
EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PRISON
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 083M22020
MALADJUSTED ADOLESCENTS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE JUVENILE REHABILITATION FACILITIES
Astina Koch
& Marzanna Farnicka
Zielona Góra University
his/her stay in JRF. The presented cases
(taking psychotropic drugs, mental disorders, alcohol and other intoxicating drugs
addiction, nicotine addiction, speaking in a
dialect) became the basis for the reflection
on legal and system gaps in the network of
institutions dealing with the rehabilitation of
adolescents. Moreover, challenges faced by
employees of JRF working with disabled and
maladjusted adolescents were discussed.
Questions were asked about the factors
related to the educational and rehabilitation
capacity of these institutions. An important
issue often overlooked in discussing maladjustment, is the fact that about 40% of
adolescents staying in juvenile rehabilitation facilities have special educational needs.
This additional factor decreases the chances
for positive results of social rehabilitation in
the JRF as it is another stimulus that facilitates the social exclusion and intolerance
towards the adolescent.
Keywords: Adolescents, Disabled Youth,
Juvenile Rehabilitation Facilities, Dual Problems.
COIMBRA 2020
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PRISON
Ref.: 070M12020
THE ROLE OF PRISON EDUCATOR IN THE CRIMINALIZATION PROCESSES.
RESULTS FROM AN ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
In my paper, I will discuss the results
of an empirical research carried out in
a prison placed in the North of Italy. In
particular, the research has been built
after a period of direct observation of
the practices of the correctional institute where I have been employed as
a prison educator from 2010 to 2017.
In the discussion, I will first address
the ethical problems faced during the
period of direct and participant observation, when I had to combine the role
of a member of the prison staff with
the other role of social researcher. This
tension has been faced with long periods of reflexivity and several discussions with other field actors. Afterwards,
I will show the research main results.
In particular, I will focus on the role
of prison educators in the case selection. Indeed, in the Italian system the
prison educators play a decisive role in
the procedure for granting the detainees freedom on parole, as they have to
express a key opinion about the chance
to live the prison. During the research it
has emerged how the decision-making
process is characterized by a superficial
knowledge of individual cases, with a
large use of categorization processes
founded on the common sense and on
prejudice. The consequences are -in
many cases -the exclusion from the
benefit of freedom on parole of those
detainees belonging to the more marginal social groups. In particular, what
appears is a decision-making process
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where the belonging at the underclass Giovanni Torrente
is considered as a duet of unreliability University of Torino
from which it derives a poor prognosis
about the criminal career of the single
person. By this point of view, Italian
prison educators seem to apply practices of actuarial justice already proved
in other criminal justice sectors. Following this perspective, prison educators
play a key role in the criminalization
processes, as they do not appear able
to turn the tables of the social inequalities; rather, they seem to reaffirm them,
in the fact denying the most important
opportunity for a social reintegration
offered by the Italian criminal justice
system.
Keywords: Prison Ethnography, Prison
Educators, Criminalization Processes,
Decision-making.
COIMBRA 2020
EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PRISON
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 156M12020
EDUCATION AND MASS IMPRISONMENT:
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PRISON REFORM
IN SOCIAL REINTEGRATION CENTRES IN BRAZIL
Sergio Grossi
University of Padova
Federal University of Fluminense
COIMBRA 2020
Criminological analysis repeatedly
discredited the educational function
aimed at the social reintegration of the
prison. Faced with this checkmate, the
theories of retribution are advancing. It
is necessary to critically rethink social
reintegration starting from educational
practices of experiences considered as a
model. In this context, an experience of
reform of the prison space emerges in
the Brazilian context promising to educate the inmates people and reducing
recidivism at a lower cost than the conventional system. With over 48 years of
experience and 50,000 people removed
from conventional prisons, the Social
Reintegration Centers (SRC) run by the
Associations of Protection and Assistance to the Condemned (APAC) aspire
to become an alternative to prison in
Brazil and around the world. The work
analyzes the educational conception of
this model -highlighting differences and
continuity with the prison institution.
The paper highlights proposals to think
about a reform of the overall prison system. We analyzed the self-description
of the model. Afterwards, we investigated the practical implementation with
a review of the available academic literature in Brazil and a short forty-day
ethnography study, that utilized the participating observation in two SRCs indicated as an example together. During
this period the field notebook was used,
together with open and semi-structured
interviews with officers, volunteers and
interns in the units. The results incorporated the more general framework
of reflections on the prison within contemporary society. The visits to the
SRC system encountered units with no
armed security, neither internally nor
externally. The units also hosted people
with more than thirty years’ sentencing
and with a past of prison violence. The
educational aspect appeared as a priority over security. Various activities were
taking place during the day, respect for
human rights was higher than in conventional prisons, and the units were
not overcrowded. Families and inmates
reported more dignities treatment, and
the emotional ties were strengthened in
the SRC. Internal discipline was managed mostly by the inmates, who could
perform exclusive assemblies. The units
were designed as educational communities and SRC units were smaller and
more transparent than the conventional prisons, open to volunteers and
researchers. Pedophiles and rapists
were not separated in order to educate
the other inmates not to use violence.
The prison must abandon the predominance of security to achieve the aims of
education and social reintegration. As
restoring the spaces of trust, it is possible to build a project that is not only disciplinary. The community involvement
is crucial to generate a permanent dialogue capable of reducing stigma and
achieve this goal. It is essential to see
the relevance of informal education,
peer education and officers considered
as social educators.
Keywords: Adult Education, Social Reintegration, Restorative Justice, Alternatives to Prison,
Prison Sociology.
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PRISONS,
MENTAL HEALTH
AND EXCLUSION
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PRISON, MENTAL HEALTH AND EXCLUSION
Ref.: 023M22020
“PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITY AS EMBODIED EXPERIENCE.
ACCOMPANYING TO WOMAN WITH DEMENTIA IN PRISON”
The reflections presented here are
given in the context of fieldwork started
in 2015 in different prisons in Mexico
City, which has gone through various
phases. One of the lessons learned has
been to identify that the confinement
enhances the possibilities that people
have a psychosocial disability. In the
last phase of fieldwork, in 2019, we
focused on working with women who
have been diagnosed with a psychosocial disability and are imprisoned in
the Women’s Center for Social Reintegration (CEFERESO). Being a teacher in
the last year of the Social Work career,
I coordinate processes with my students who are taking their “specialization practice” for one year. The work
consists of collectively creating and
implementing a qualitative intervention strategy in the prison space. This
is achieved because each year I send a
request to the Mexico City Penitentiary
System with a summary of the proposal
that we make from the practice group.
The reflections that I will present are
framed in May 2019 (we attend once
a week 4 hours a day, 6 sessions) and
then between August and November of
the same year (we attend twice a week
4 hours a day, 27 sessions). Being a
group of social work students, mostly
women, we took some sessions at the
university to read and reflect from a
gender perspective on how criminal
punishment for women works. The
women in bedroom 8 are known to have
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been diagnosed with a psychosocial dis- Berenice Pérez Ramírez
ability, although we never had access Autonomous National
to their medical records. We collected University of Mexico
information through the women’s own
stories, from what they shared with us
about how they felt and our observations, then we counter-pointed with
specialized texts on mental disorders.
Most women have some psychotic
disorder, depressive disorder, autism,
intellectual disability, substance use,
suicidal ideation and behavior is very
latent in this group of women and only
Maru was identified with dementia in
addition to another unknown diagnosis (Field Notes 08/13/18). Their ages
fluctuate between 25 and 65 years. A
third of these women have been in jail
several times. And we conclude they
live a double confinement because
they cannot circulate in other spaces of
prison. I am interested in pointing out
that Maru, treated in her environment
as a woman with dementia, became
actively involved with us during our
accompaniment, this meeting mobilized both parties and promoted significant changes in her, showing us that
experience is an embodied knowledge
and that psychosocial disability is more
than dysfunction of the mind (CONADIC
2020), because it involves transitions
of the affective and bodily experience.
Embodied experience comes from the
articulation of the concept of embodied memory (Fassin 2016) and that of
embodied individuality (Kontos 2005).
COIMBRA 2020
PRISON, MENTAL HEALTH AND EXCLUSION
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 023M22020
“PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITY AS EMBODIED EXPERIENCE.
ACCOMPANYING TO WOMAN WITH DEMENTIA IN PRISON”
Berenice Pérez Ramírez
Autonomous National
University of Mexico
COIMBRA 2020
In this sense, I am interested in showing that dementia affects a type of
memory but even before having time
to reflect, the body remembers (Fassin 2016, 35), the body has memory
through experience.
We divide the strategy we work into
4 phases. The first phase was about
mutual knowledge, simple activities to
share and generate our first dialogues.
The second part consisted of developing
more organized activities, there was a
coordinator, they had an objective, they
took the material to work on and discussion questions to rethink all of them. In
the third phase, we delve into important
issues proposed by women: childhood,
violence, sexual abuse, disability, insanity, confinement, fear, guilt, support
networks, among the most important.
The fourth phase, was arranged as close
to farewell, we continually reiterate that
we would withdraw, because the process of this practice would end and we
focused on proposing collective spaces
between them. We were not allowed to
enter the voice recorder. The field notes
were detailed and described in the field
diary, made immediately after leaving
the center. The field notes included
descriptions of the space where the
activities took place, the objects and
people that were present, the dialogues and the verbal participation
that the women had, the actions and
interactions between them, with their
caregivers and with us, as well as the
emotions expressed. I was interested
in detail, especially in the case of Maru,
although they all caught my attention,
with Maru I had a peculiar approach,
she looked for me as much as I looked
for her. All these observations allowed
me to identify the ways in which a person with dementia acts accordingly to
the sociocultural context.
Keywords: Ethnography, Psychosocial Disability,
Dementia, Women in Prison, Mexico.
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Ref.: 037M22020
RISK FACTORS FOR PSYCHOPATHY IN A SAMPLE
OF INSTITUTIONALIZED ADOLESCENT OFFENDERS
Juvenile delinquency is an increasingly worrying issue in society, assuming
increasing visibility and public recognition. Antisocial and persistent behavior
is early revealed in many individuals
through certain characteristics that will
later lead them to become involved in
delinquency, as well as crime in general.
So, children and adolescents exhibiting
these same characteristics, are seen as
socially inadequate, since their mechanisms of interaction and problem solving are also socially inadequate. Various
factors such as culture, family socialization practices and the child’s temperament may maximize or minimize the
probability of such behavior to occur.
It is therefore essential to recognize
these risk factors in the lives of these
adolescents as early as possible, in an
attempt to reduce adult crime. Qualitative study, through the analysis of
fourteen cases of institutionalized adolescent offenders, aged between 14 and
17 years. The analysis of the presence
of risk indicators for the development of
psychopathy, which appear associated
with deviant and maladaptive attitudes
and behaviors during adolescence, was
the main objective. It was found that
many of these adolescents have many
risk factors for antisocial behavior that
could evolve (e.g., absence of guilt
towards their actions, lack of empathy
towards the victims, irresponsibility
and impulsiveness), which may lead to
the rooting of unacceptable norms of
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social conduct, initiating a delinquent Rui Cardoso,
way of life. The presence of traits of Sónia Caridade
coldness and emotional insensitivity, & Maria Alzira Dinis
such as impulsiveness and irresponsi- Fernando Pessoa University
bility, as well as the dimensions of grandiosity and manipulation, are shown
to be present through the absence of
guilt or remorse, absence of empathy
and superficial affection, which later
in adulthood may give rise to deviant
and delinquent behavior. For a better
understanding of the phenomenon, it
is expected to identify antisocial behaviors in adolescents through this study,
as well as risk factors that demonstrate
that specific characteristics may evolve
to more serious delinquent behaviors.
Keywords: Risk Factors, Psychopathy, Antisocial
Behavior, Adolescents, Institutionalized.
COIMBRA 2020
PRISON, MENTAL HEALTH AND EXCLUSION
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 147M22020
PROMOTION OF HEALTH THROUGH THE INCENTIVE
TO HEALTHY HABITS INTRAMURAL IN CEARÁ
Purdenciana Ribeiro
De Menezes
COIMBRA 2020
Although heart disease is increasing nowadays, people still pay little
attention to the importance of physical activity, especially for maintaining
heart health. Regular practice of physical exercise greatly benefits any individual. In addition, it is one of the main
measures to prevent heart disease. And
you just need to start, take the first step
to put a sedentary lifestyle aside. The
present work is guided by the objective
of reporting the experience of applying
actions to promote intramural physical activities in a prison unit in Ceará.
Educational action on the importance
of adopting healthy habits, inside the
prison unit, having as facilitators the
multidisciplinary team, composed of
nursing, dentistry, medicine and psychology, from the prison health unit,
held in the cell blocks of the prison.
Penitentiary of Pacatuba, CE, on February 3, 2019, with a target audience of
412 prisoners, approached in the classrooms of the said prison unit During the
action some doubts were clarified, and
the health unit of the unit was made
available for problem-solving. At the
time, it was explained about the importance of physical activity, giving emphasis to the care of the heart and cardiac
pathologies, given the empowerment
needs of essential care for this aspect.
It was explained about the importance
of prisoners also practicing physical
activities, suggesting the practice of
sports in the blocks when released for
sunbathing. It was observed that the
prison situation can make the inmates
very accommodated and that the support to the practice of physical activities inside the prison can encourage
the practice. Therefore, this type of
approach in a prison environment is
opportune, given that most inmates
have a lot of idle time, so that this time
can be used for the adoption of physical
activities, health care and acquisition of
knowledge.
Keywords: Health Promotion, Prison
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PRISON, MENTAL HEALTH AND EXCLUSION
Ref.: 145M22020
INTEGRATIVE ACTIONS FOR THE HEALTH OF WOMEN DEPRIVED
OF FREEDOM:
PRACTICING ART FOR HEALTH EDUCATION
It is recommended by the Ministry
of Health, to offer comprehensive care
to women’s health that considers the
specific needs of black, lesbian, rural
and forestry women, sex workers and
indigenous people, among others,
where they are also inserted. deprived
of liberty. It is essential to promote
health care for incarcerated women,
including the promotion of actions to
prevent and control sexually transmitted diseases and HIV / AIDS infection
in this population, expanding access
and qualifying the health care of prisoners. This study aims to report the
experience of conducting workshops to
promote women’s health in prison. The
action-research method was used, with
a qualitative approach to the results.
This is an experience report of actions
that took place from August 2018 to
January 2019, in a female penitentiary
unit in the Metropolitan Region of the
State of Ceará. The actions were developed in the form of painting and art
workshops, aimed at women prisoners
in prison; the actions were carried out
primarily on Tuesdays of each week,
addressing health-related topics. The
workshops had as actors the nurse, the
nursing technician, the psychologist and
a class of, on average, 10 to 15 inmates,
who participated in the school and who
expressed interest in participating and
the indicated teachers. Faced with the
formation of the group, the penitentiary
education teacher offered the classroom
space for the health team to implement
the action, where the workshops were
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held. 04 themes were addressed, which Purdenciana Ribeiro
dealt with issues for health promotion De Menezes
and self-care. With the actions, there
was a great demand for health care
to address issues related to the workshops presented. An increased quantum was obtained in more than half of
cervical cancer prevention exams; the
demand for family planning, condoms,
blood tests and individual consultations
increased by 82%. It was observed
that health-related issues started to
be treated as a priority in the lives of
women affected by the actions. After
the actions, gains were obtained in the
attention to women covering prenatal
care, control of cervical cancer; STD /
AIDS diagnosis, counseling and treatment (from preventive activities, such
as condom distribution and preparation
of educational material, to diagnostic
and treatment actions according to the
syndromic approach strategy); attention to mental health (prevention of
psychosocial problems, health problems
resulting from the use of alcohol and
other drugs); immunizations; assessment and guidance for family planning.
The relaxed approach to the prisoner,
makes the situation of prison less serious, so that with the actions taken, it
was obtained not only the gain in physical health but also the improvement in
mental health and not least, the biggest
gain, which is considered in this report
with the gain of confidence of people
so stigmatized.
Keywords: Women’s Health, Prison,
Health Promotion.
COIMBRA 2020
PRISON, MENTAL HEALTH AND EXCLUSION
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 143M2020
THE ART OF PROMOTING THE HEALTH
OF MEN DEPRIVED OF FREEDOM
Purdenciana Ribeiro
De Menezes
COIMBRA 2020
Health promotion, currently considered a conceptual field and praxis,
has influenced the organization of the
health system in several countries and
regions of the world. Collective work
encourages the development of educational programs, involving arts for
health promotion, aimed at the prison
population. In this context, it is up to
health education to promote healthy
lifestyle habits, articulating technical
and popular knowledge and mobilizing individual and collective resources,
promoted through painting. Collective
work encourages the development of
educational health promotion programs
aimed at the prison population. The
present work is guided by the objective
of reporting the experience of applying actions to promote the health of
incarcerated men. It is action research,
with a qualitative approach, consisting
of an account of the experience lived
by the prison health team, of a prison
in the state of Ceará. In this report, it
refers to educational actions carried out
from October 2018 to February 2019.
The actions are passed on to prisoners,
by the prison health team, composed
of the nurse, nursing technician, dentist, dental assistant, dental assistant.
pharmacy and doctor. For this, groups
are formed that meet to elaborate the
actions, being a period for each theme
and after the random selection of the
group the presentation begins. While a
group presents the workshop, the other
students participate by observing and
writing down the aspects they consider
relevant to the discussion that occurs
at the end of the presentation. During
the process of building the pedagogical workshops in each action, it was
observed that some trainees resisted
the methodology used, demonstrating
difficulty in the collective construction
of knowledge about empowerment
and co-responsibility. However, in the
course of the workshops, this posture
gave rise to a collective construction
that was pleasurable and of great relevance to everyone, as they began
to identify their weaknesses in their
knowledge and from then on they came
to understand that the important thing
is not knowledge. or correct ideas or
behavior, but the increase in the trainee’s capacity as an agent of his own
social transformation, to detect real
problems and seek original and creative
solutions. It is important to address
the health promotion of prisoners,
through the art of painting, since it is
observed that there is a predominance
of the biomedical model of health care
for incarcerated men. We believe that
this research addresses practices and
knowledge in a field still little explored.
The need to move forward on this theme
is emphasized, since this work aims to
add knowledge about the health of the
prisoner and its interfaces.
Keywords: Prison, Men’s Health,
Health Promotion.
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PRISON, MENTAL HEALTH AND EXCLUSION
Ref.: 208M22020
PRISONERS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
People with disabilities include those
who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory deficiencies
that, by interacting with various barriers, may impede their full and effective
participation in society, on equal terms
with others. The difficulties faced by
people with disabilities in society are
magnified in prison, given the nature
of the environment of confinement and
restriction and the violence resulting
from overcrowding, from the lack of
proper differentiation and supervision of
the prisoner, among others. Overcrowding in correctional facilities can worsen
disability, due to neglect, psychological strain, and lack of adequate medical
care, situations typical of overcrowded
prisons. To ensure the equal treatment
of prisoners with disabilities and the
protection of their human rights, prison
authorities need to develop policies and
strategies that address the needs of this
vulnerable group within prison. These
policies should be based on the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities and on national
legislation, and deal as a matter of priority with personnel training, classification, allocation of places, health care,
access to programs and services, safety,
release preparation, early parole, and
compassionate release. Inmates with
disabilities make up a particularly vulnerable group, whose situation and special needs have not been a recurring
study at present. Despite the fact that
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statistics related to the number of pris- Ana Mª Hernández
oners with disabilities are scarce, some Fernández
studies indicate that, due to the increas- Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences,
ing prison population in most countries Carlos III University of Madrid
and the significant increase in elderly
prisoners in others, there is also an
increasing number of people with disabilities in prison. The difficulties faced
by people with disabilities in society are
magnified in prison, given the nature
of the environment of confinement and
restriction and the violence resulting
from overcrowding, from the lack of
proper differentiation and supervision
of the prisoner, among others. Incarceration represents an extremely cruel
punishment for offenders with disabilities, as their situation often worsens
and becomes a heavy burden on the
resources of the prison system. Human
rights concerns regarding the vulnerable state of prisoners with disabilities
and their increasing number, due to the
increase in the prison population for the
elderly in many countries, require the
creation of policies and strategies that
reduce the incarceration of criminals
with disabilities, at the same time that
it guarantees that the human rights
of disabled people in prison and their
needs are protected.
Keywords: Disability, Discrimination, Seclusion.
COIMBRA 2020
PRISON, MENTAL HEALTH AND EXCLUSION
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 209M22020
HEALTH COMMUNICATION IN DEPRIVATION
OF LIBERTY ENVIRONMENTS:
THE CONSTRUCTION OF INDICATORS FOR ANALYSIS
OF TUBERCULOSIS PREVENTION CAMPAIGN
Juliana Rochet
University of Brasília
COIMBRA 2020
This work aims to establish reflections
on the methodology for analyzing health
communication actions applied to prisons. The text is elaborated in the scope
of the project “Prisões Livres de Tuberculose” (https://www.prisoeslivresdetb.
com.br/), a partnership of Fiocruz with
Brazil’s Justice and Public Security and
Health Ministries. It assumes the collaboration in the development of communication and educational material and
practices with people deprived of liberty
and their families, as well as health and
safety professionals, in the prevention
against tuberculosis. The reflections on
the process of construction of indicators
and analysis are based on theoretical
approaches on spaces of restriction of
freedom, taking as reference works of
Arendt (1988) and Frankl (1991), and
on references that understand communication in a dialogical way, thinking about a health communication
process (Deslandes & Miter, 2009) that
encompasses different participatory
mechanisms and processes for the
production, distribution and access of
content, even taking into account the
disparities resulting from power relations. In institutionalized environments
of deprivation of liberty, these issues
become even more relevant from the
perspective of communication, since in
these conditions the freedom restriction
of expression and access to information
become, in many cases, an obstacle to
policies aimed at awareness, education and mobilization of prisoners on,
for example, health issues. Based on
these approaches, this research estab-
lishes bases for the construction of a
model of indicators for the analysis
of communication and health actions
related to the production, distribution
and access processes for the distribution of educational material as well as
the awareness of actors involved in the
prison environment about tuberculosis
prevention. The restricted information
chain, combined with communication
strategies that mostly use traditional
and / or verticalized patterns limited
to the transmission (and not necessarily sharing) of content, can generate
barriers to the exercise of fundamental rights -which must be guaranteed
even to persons deprived of certain
liberties (PINTO & FIGUEIREDO, 2019),
such as the right to communication and
the right to health. In this perspective,
the praxis based on specific theoretical-methodological cuts -such as the
communication pedagogy methods
developed by Mario Kaplún (2002) and
the ethnography present in the work
of Oracy Nogueira (2009) -contributed
to the elaboration of an alternative for
the analysis and the development of
indicators for the evaluation of health
communication initiatives in prisons.
The indicator proposal was also based
on metrics systematized by UNESCO
publications One world and many voices
(1978) and Indicators of Media Development (2018) and by interviews with
ten key actors in communication and
health.
Keywords: Health Communication,
Tuberculosis; Prison System, Monitoring.
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PRISON, MENTAL HEALTH AND EXCLUSION
Ref.: 063M12020
CRIME OR PUNISHMENT PENAL OR ADMINISTRATIVE SANCTION
IN TERMS OF MEDICAL LIABILITY IN MEDICALLY ASSISTED
REPRODUCTION TECHNICS IN IBERIAN CONTEXT
Ruling Portuguese and Spanish Laws
on Medically Assisted Reproduction are
not so different in general, but this
study shows they go completely different ways in what concerns Medical Liability and sanctions for the physicians or
Medical Teams that perform against this
law in Portugal and in Spain. Our study
describes bought legislative solutions
in terms of juridical sanction of Medical wrongful actions in this matter. This
is a compared Law Study between the
Medically Assisted Reproduction Iberian
Laws: Spanish Law 14/2006 and Portuguese 32/2006 Law, which analyses
from these 2 punitive perspectives of
punishment, the solutions for Medical
Liability justice in Medically Assisted
Reproduction Technics in this Iberian
context. In our study, we show bough
legal solutions from a critical and constructive point of view, through doing
a comparative analysis of the texts of
the laws in question, showing that the
Portuguese Law has a Crime and Penal
justice evaluation of the wrong Medical
conduct very different from the Spanish
Administrative sanction system of Medical justice for wrongful action in terms
of Medical Liability in Medically Assisted
Reproduction Technics Law point of
view. In this, we conclude, therefore,
that for creating the possibility for
these systems of Health Reproductive
Human Rights to be protected and to
grow together in the future, (as we suggest), that the Spanish perspective that
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is more opened and do no criminalize João Proença Xavier
first face medical conducts, and that University of Coimbra
brings first administrative sanctions
to Medical professionals and hospitals
that performed out of this laws, should
indeed, in this field, influence more
profoundly the Portuguese system that
has a more conservative vision that in
our opinion should be similar to the
Spanish proposal, because really there
is not a scientific reason for this difference of treatment of medical conduct in
Portugal and in Spain, were the same
conduct could easily be a Crime with
Criminal Penal sanction, and prison for
the Portuguese Medical Doctor, were in
Spain, the same conduct, is only subject
to a fine and Administrative juridical
action. In conclusion, first face Criminalization of Medical Liability in general
and particularly in terms of Medically
Assisted Reproduction do not assist to
the protection of health care human and
reproductive rights.
Keywords: Medically Assisted Reproduction
Technics Liability, Compared Iberian Medical
Law, Penal Justice, Administrative Justice,
Human Rights.
COIMBRA 2020
PRISON, MENTAL HEALTH AND EXCLUSION
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 119M22020
INCARCERATION OF WOMEN IN THE MODULATED
PENITENTIARY OF IJUÍ / RS:
THE CASE OF A MALE PRISON INSTITUTION
IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19
Camila Belinaso
de Oliveira
University of La Salle
& Salo de Carvalho
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
COIMBRA 2020
Official data from the Brazilian
Penitentiary Department (DEPEN)
shows that Brazilian prisons have the
fourth-largest female prison population
in the world (approximately 50 thousand women prisoners), in a context of
considerable vacancy deficit. With the
enactment of the Covid-19 Pandemic,
the public authorities established criteria for the release through Recommendation 62, of March 17, 2020, edited
by the National Council of Justice (CNJ).
In this scenario of mass incarceration
of women in Brazil in the midst of the
pandemic crisis, the study seeks to
analyze the effectiveness of the CNJ
rules from the analysis of the prison
situation in the northwest of Rio Grande
do Sul (RS), more specifically the circumstances surrounding the processes
of (de) prisoning women in the State
Modulated Penitentiary of Ijuí (PMI),
one of the prison institutions that make
up the state’s 3rd Penitentiary Region.
From feminist and critical criminologies
(theoretical frameworks), within the
framework of criminal abolitionism, the
research seeks to verify the real obstacles to decarcerization (dynamics of the
punitive system) even when there are
norms in this sense (statics of the punitive system). The research was carried
out through documentary analysis of
criminal records and the processes of
prisoners and semi-structured interviews with women under prison segregation (methodological procedures),
and specifically aims to (a) verify the
level of effectiveness of the limiting rules
of maintenance and decree of arrests in
the context of the pandemic; and (b) to
identify the punitive burdens suffered
by women deprived of their liberty, that
is, the higher level of restrictions on
rights imposed on women compared
to the rights granted to men imprisoned in the same environment, notably
because the prison institution is analyzed (masculinely) mixed. The general
objective of the investigation is to verify
whether, in fact, changes in the prison
situation of women occurred during
the Covid-19 pandemic or whether the
history of violation of rights remains
in this context. The central hypothesis of the study is to remain in illegal
conditions of incarceration despite the
crisis, a situation legitimized by judicial
and administrative decisions that serve
to improve policies that naturalize the
silencing and death of these undesirable
bodies. In a preliminary way, it is possible to maintain that the changes that
occurred in the lives of women who are
currently in prison in PMI are minimal,
basically related to the policy of visiting
and receiving supplies, with virtually no
effectiveness of the regulations in the
CNJ.
Keywords: Critical Criminology, Feminist
Criminology, Female Incarceration, Covid-19
Pandemic, Prisons.
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INCARCERATION OF WOMEN AND THE FUNCTIONING
OF THE BRAZILIAN PENAL SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT
OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
In 2015, when the Brazilian prison
population was composed of 698,618
prisoners (DEPEN, 2020), the “State of
Unconstitutional Affairs” was recognized
by the Plenary of the Supreme Court, by
majority, considering, mainly “the massive and persistent violation of fundamental rights, resulting from structural
failures and bankruptcy of public policies” (ADPF347 MC/DF). This serious
situation is reflected in the mortality
rate per100,000 inhabitants in prisons,
three times higher than in the general
population (CNJ, 2017). Despite this
decision, in 2020, the Brazilian prison
system, with 750,000 people (DEPEN,
2019) and with an occupancy rate of
171.6%, is therefore an environment
conducive to the propagation of covid19. In March, after the recognition of
the first cases of covid-19, the Federal
Government proposed the separation
of prisoners infected by sheets or isolation in containers. In the context of
prison management, the main measure
to contain the pandemic was the suspension of visits. The most important
measure adopted to prevent the spread
of the virus in prisons was Recommendation No. 62 of the CNJ, which, following international guidelines, directs
judges to adopt, among others, measures to reduce incarceration. It is in
this context, there is a daily increase in
the deaths of prison staff and inmates.
It is necessary to consider that, historically, young and black men and women
are the recipients of this policy of social
control and death in Brazil; and that
recent analysis of data from the Epidemiological Bulletins of the Ministry
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of Health indicates that the number of Alessandra Prado
blacks killed by coronavirus is five times UFBA
higher than that of the rest of the population (Public, 2020). From the perspective of the writings of Angela Davis
(2018), it is necessary to consider that
gender structures the prison system
and, among other things, specific situations, such as the presence of pregnant
women and newborns in prison, need
more attention. In Brazil, despite the
decision of the Supreme Court given in
the case file of habeas corpus collective n. 143641/2018, irregularities are
also found (PSOL/IBCCRIM, ADPF 684).
The present work then starts from the
following question: does the pandemic
give rise to new demands in relation to
incarcerated women or enhances the
penalty as a means of racialized social
control and gender? The research aims
to analyze the functioning of the Brazilian penal system with regard to the
guarantee of rights to women incarcerated by criminal enforcement agencies
in Brazil in the context of a pandemic,
confronting the perspective of imprisonment as an instrument for maintaining
patriarchalism and racism. The work
is based on a documentary research
–legislation, reports and judicial decisions –and theoretical research, which
has as its theoretical framework the
critical theories that consider criteria
of race and gender for analysis of the
functioning of the penal system (Davis,
Alexander, Flauzina).
Keywords: Incarceration, Covid-19,
Penal System, Women, Guarantee of Rights.
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ETHNOGRAPHIC
PERSPECTIVES
IN PRISON:
MEANINGS OF
INCARCERATION,
CONCEPTIONS
OF JUSTICE AND
SUBJECTIVITIES
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NEW TRENDS FOR THE COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT
OF PUNITIVE REACTION?
It is nothing new for anyone that
the mechanisms of criminal selectivity
are present at the various levels of the
punitive apparatus. Right from the definition of the facts typified as a crime,
from the realm of politics and ideology,
to the remaining levels: the selection of
crimes to be investigated by the police
authorities, the application of judicial
selectivity mechanisms and finally the
application of penalties.
Common knowledge is also the fact,
studied extensively, that the prison
sentence, which should constitute the
ultima ratio of punitive responses, has
in recent decades been asserting itself
as the main penalty, especially directed
against agents who have several vulnerabilities, and foccused on crimes essentially against private property, with less
impact on the society, when compared
to other types of crimes - economic and
environmental.
Authors that we address in the exhibition argue that a noticeable retraction
of social status policies corresponded to
this exponential increase in the application of prison sentences.
However, after decades of massive
worldwide incarceration, we have seen
a gradual decrease in prison statistics
and a slowdown in the response of
States to crime, which seems to indicate a paradigm shift in relation to the
collective management of crime and
punishement and a diferente treatment
of those who are excluded from the pro-
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ductive system, to whom the punitive Paula Sobral
University of Coimbra
system is especially directed.
Changes in the legislative scope and
practices in Europe and the USA reveal
a movement that, although not very
expressive, seems to indicate a turning point, through the use of different
strategies and alternatives to prison.
The author, through the analysis of
determined indicators, national and
international statistical and legislative elements, questions whether this
movement will correspond to a turning
point in the philosophy of punishment,
integrated by concerns of reinsertion of
the agents, through the reinforcement
of alternative community and social
responses and institutional structures,
or whether, on the contrary, this movement expresses a more cruel facet and
a new development of the neoliberal
strategy in the management of crime
and its agents.
Keywords: Incarceration, Covid-19,
Penal System, Women, Guarantee of Rights.
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OF INCARCERATION, CONCEPTIONS OF JUSTICE AND SUBJECTIVITIES
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
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REINTEGRATION OF FEMALE PRISONERS:
PRACTICES OF RESISTANCE AND MEANINGS FROM
THE ETHNOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVE
Lorena Valenzuela-Vela
University of Granada
COIMBRA 2020
This report aims to reflect, from the
fieldwork with female prisoners enrolled
in reintegration processes in the city of
Granada, on a phenomenon that has
been denounced from different areas,
namely: the co-optation of the discourse on women’s rights as a strategy
of States to control vulnerable populations. Aspect in which the researcher
Ana Alcázar-Campos and I have been
working together (Valenzuela-Vela &
Alcázar-Campos, 2020). Thus, although
the so-called “punitive turn” of public
policies is known within the Social Sciences (Wacquant, 2010), it is not so
much, on the one hand, the co-optation
of the discourse of women’s rights by
the States, contributing to the consolidation of criminal justice as a control
apparatus (Gottschalk, 2006; Bumiller,
2008; Coker, 2001; Halley, 2008). And,
on the other hand, the specific way in
which social control is exercised for men
and women, where is very important
their adaptation to the image of “good
mother” in order to access certain features or benefits of the so-called welfare state. The work presented is part
of a more extensive doctoral thesis
which I began in 2017 in the context
of Andalusia ( with the funding of FPU
Programme-University Teacher Training, that is part of the Spanish Ministry
of Education). The research aims are,
firstly, to look at the ways in which the
Spanish Penitentiary System is involved
in the reintegration process for female
inmates and how the State combines
“resocializing” and control functions in
a context of stigmatization and exclusion. Secondly, it explores the experiences, strategies of resistance, and
agency that women in prisión develop
during this process. Identify the main
conflicts and difficulties they encounter
after leaving the ordinary prisons, how
they live and what meanings they give
to their processes, as well as the strategies they follow (individually or collectively) after they leave centers. To take
a closer look at the women in prison
situation, I carried out interviews and
participant observation on women in
semi-open regimes serving sentences
in the Social Integration Center (hereinafter referred to as CIS), women in
semi-open regimes but not attending
CIS, women on probation, and women
who have been released. I have also
held discussions with different professionals, both working in the Center and
working for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), who have direct or
indirect contact with these women.
Keywords: Prison, Women, Control,
Reintegration.
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METHODOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO ETHNOGRAPHIC
OBSERVATION IN SOCIOLOGY
Within our ongoing Sociology Ph.D.,
we have been dwelling on the artistic
creative experience and on the modalities of subjectivation inherent to it, in
institutional contexts. One of the projects that cooperates with ours is named
“CORPOEMCADEIA”, which is promoted
by Companhia Olga Roriz and envisages the promotion of social inclusion
and crime prevention through artistic
practice and its creative and relational
dynamics,at the moment acting on 12
inmates of the Linhó Prison.
The concept of experience, as we
understand it, is affiliated to the pragmatist philosophical tradition, the
method that appears to us as adequate
to sociologically ponder creativity without tending, neither to individualistic
approaches, that see creativity solely
as a personal skill, nor to perspectives
of a structuralist inclination that see
creativity as an ideological-discursive
effect. Experience is neither objective
nor subjective, rather impersonal. This
does not mean that it is neutral; on the
contrary, it occurs solely on the condition of encompassing an affective tonality, reliant on the organization of an
inter-affective field that comprises the
organism and the environment. Thus, it
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is from one and the same leap that the José Manuel Resende
environment becomes a specific situ- & José Maria Carvalho
ation and that the organism becomes University of Évora
a subject, passage through which the
organism’s automatic reaction to the
environment converts to action upon
the environment. Therefore, subjectivation are established through and within
the possibility of environment manipulation, which requires the emergence
of asign. The notion of possibility is
offered by and within a sign, giving way
to action –the action admits, however,
the most varied sensorial-cognitive
regimes of involvement in the activity.
The fact that experience draws us away
from any substantial approach, opting
for a transactional dimension, makes us
rethink the methods used for the production of data. If the experience and
the subjectivation occurs by the rising
of a sign (which is based, not on signification, but rather on the practical synchronization of the body in respect to
the environment), that is, plunging to
the future, towards the possibility, not
being confined, therefore, to the empirical state of things –then, we ought
to be armed with tools susceptible of
inhabiting the internal dynamics of the
situations. The ordering of the course
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METHODOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATION IN SOCIOLOGY
José Manuel Resende
& José Maria Carvalho
University of Évora
of the activity are not reduced to the
performance of pre-defined roles and
the use of language, being necessary to
observe the body with its sensory and
affective dimensions. If non-participant
observation of the sessions seems to be
indicated to identify and describe the
plurality of the modalities of involvement in action e its coordination, the
participant observation allows to experiment in the skin the equally important
perceptions, sensations and affective
tones promoted by dance and fundamental for the (re)subjectivation. If the
first consists in the writing of a board
diary focused in the collective organization of the situation, the second, due
to the immersion of the researcher,
requires new data recording formats.
Insofar, we suggest a reflection on the
potentials of alternating and articulating between participant and non-participant observation that we will apply
for a year and half.
Keywords: Sociology, Experience, Arts, Prisional
Context, Pragmatism.
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POSITIVE EXPERIENCES AND CHILDHOOD VICTIMIZATION:
A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY WITH MALE INMATES
Introduction: Positive childhood
experiences have a positive effect on
adulthood. On the other hand, some of
the abused children suffer from impulsiveness and problems of aggression
in adulthood. Thus, there is a relationship between child abuse and criminal behavior in adulthood. The main
objective of this study was to analyze
the relationship between positive childhood experiences and childhood victimization trauma among incarcerated
males. Methodology: To carry out this
study, we requested authorization to
the Directorate-general of Reintegration
and Prison Services and to the Directors
of the prisons where we collected the
sample. The inmates that participated
in this research signed the informed
consent, which contained the objectives,
procedures, and confidentiality of the
study. This protocol was also approved
by the Institutional Review Board of the
University and by the Ethics Committee of the Instituto Universitário Egas
Moniz. The sample was composed of 121
incarcerated males aged between 18
and 73 years old (M=36.97, SD=11.1).
Participants answered face-to-face with
a sociodemographic questionnaire, the
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Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), Renata Guarda
and the Benevolent Childhood Experi- & Telma C. Almeida
ences Scale (BCEs). Results: The expe- Egas Moniz University
rience of emotional neglect (M=10.00,
SD=5.29) showed the highest incidence of child victimization. We found
negative and significant correlations
between benevolent childhood experiences and childhood trauma (r=-.61,p<
.01). Precisely, between safety, interpersonal support, quality of life and
emotional abuse, emotional neglect,
physical abuse, and physical neglect;
and between sexual abuse and safety,
and interpersonal support. Discussion/
Conclusion: This study showed that
the experience of traumatic experiences is linked with lower scores of
positive experiences of life in childhood.
Besides, it was also possible to identify high levels of emotional neglect in
male inmates, suggesting the relationship between victimization and criminal
behavior. Our results identify the need
to intervene early in children to prevent
criminal behavior.
Keywords: Positive Experiences, Childhood
Victimization, Inmates.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 003M22020
AUDIOVISUAL AS POSSIBILITY OF DISPUTING IMAGINARIES
BY THE PRISON POPULATION
Giulia Medeiros
& Aline Wendpap
Federal University of Mato Grosso
COIMBRA 2020
Cultural mergers, which have been
happening recently, between the center and the world periphery, allow new
elements to emerge from this mixture.
In this context, we have the audiovisual
boom, a tool and language accessible
to a large part of the contemporary
population. In view of this panorama,
it is asked: would it be possible for the
audiovisual to become a life-changing
tool? This hypothesis is based on bibliographic references, which relate life
in society and its institutions, being
part of a broader political project of the
economy and global cultures. With the
advance of modern capitalism and its
development, we realize the importance
of media for power relations in contemporary times. Maintaining the hegemonic imaginary occurs mainly through
the mass media, a concept developed
by Canclini to characterize the mass
media. The respective research aims to
develop a critical analysis, about the
potential of audiovisual production in
redefining social subjects and practices,
based on the empirical experience of
an audiovisual workshop, in a penitentiary system. Such an experience, carried out in 2013, with the participation
of individuals in deprivation of liberty,
resulted in a documentary, which tells
the stories of the participants in their
own versions. Even if it is an event, in a
specific way, it is possible to talk about
how the audiovisual, especially the one
produced on the margins, acts in the
process of disputing the imaginary and
opens gaps for decolonial proposals of
knowledge and power. Based on a bibliographic survey of authors of Cultural
Studies and decolonial theories, we
analyze how the audiovisual can echo
the voices of a group of individuals in a
situation of deprivation of liberty, who
are treated in a marginalized way by
the mass media, providing an imaginary
watered to stereotypes and oppression.
Research is a tool that can give more
volume to the needs of including art
in public policies, especially within the
prison system, which, in general, does
not take into account the voice of a population, deprived of rights, since childhood, oppressed, both by the economic
order to the omission of the State and
by the construction of its subjectivities.
Would it be possible through audiovisual
to rewrite these stories?
Keywords: Audiovisual, Social Imaginary,
Prison System, Decoloniality, Public Policy.
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Ref.: 149M22020
THE NEED FOR ALTERNATIVE PRE-TRIAL DETENTION MEASURES
TOWARDS THE REALISATION OF COMMON STANDARDS
Recent decades have witnessed a
substantial increase in pre-trial detention numbers. In Europe, about onefourth of all prisoners are pre-trial
detainees. Research reveals that in
many jurisdictions pre-trial detention
is overused. The state has the duty and
the right to order pre-trial detention if
there are substantiated and qualified
reasons that a suspect will not stand
trial or offend again. On the other hand,
pre-trial detention is ordered against
men who according to the ECHR are
presumed innocent, while a suspicion
by itself may not justify detention. Pretrial detention means the most severe,
intrusive measure against fundamental, human rights despite the presumption of innocence. In the light of this
pre-trial detention has to be an ultima
ratio, which only may be used if there
are qualified reasons and if there is no
alternative available to secure both,
(far-reaching) liberty and the proceedings. Furthermore, the highest levels
of legal safeguards to protect the ones
who are affected or who are threatened to be affected by pre-trial detention must apply. The literature points
to a tripartite set of negative consequences stemming from excessive
employment of pre-trial detention. We
observe national-level consequences
(like financial costs), organizational
problems for the prison systems (e.g.
overcrowding and prison conditions)
and most importantly high costs and
pain on the individual level of detainees and their families. In many countries, alternative measures to pre-trial
detention appear to be seldom used
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and this is particularly true for foreign
suspects. With the Framework Decision
2009/829 and the thereby introduced
European Supervision Order (ESO) the
European Union aims to protect the
often highly vulnerable group of foreign
defendants, promotes the application
of alternative measures, and thus consolidates its Human Rights-oriented
posture. This paper aims at analyzing
the negative effects of pretrial detention, with some focus on foreign defendants, before delving into the potential
of alternative measures and the ESO.
We will discuss prevailing obstacles to
a coherent application of the EU instrument and the importance of the realization of common standards in the EU.
With the ESO the EU not only aims to
oppose the problems related to pre-trial
detention and to value the application
of alternative measures. The ESO also
can be seen as another step to foster
a shared legal culture with commons
standards. We conclude that a more
extensive application of alternative
measures also overcoming national
borders, asks for further activities to
directly involve the key actors who are
central to realize change. We, therefore,
will also explore options with a potential for awareness-raising and capacity
building aiming directly at judges and
magistrates, who are in decisive roles in
the application of alternative measures
and the consolidation of Human Rights
compliant regimes.
Walter Hammerschick,
Institute for the Sociology
of Law and Criminology
Pedro das Neves,
Innovative Prison Systems
Pedro Liberado
Innovative Prison Systems
& Joana Apóstolo
Innovative Prison Systems
Keywords: Preventive Detention, European
Supervision Order, Alternative Measures,
European Union, Human Rights.
COIMBRA 2020
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
PRISONS,
CRIMINAL
ORGANIZATIONS,
DRUG CRIMINALIZATION AND
INCARCERATION
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DRUG CRIMINALIZATION AND INCARCERATION
Ref.: 078M12020
PORTUGUESE CARCERAL SYSTEM THROUGH THE EYES
OF ORGANISED CRIME
– A GENDER-FOCUSED ANALYSIS ON PUNISHMENT EFFECTIVENESS
It is commonly accepted by academics that organized crime stands as a
new form of modern deviance, which
trespasses boundaries and challenges
the very concept of crime. The dynamic
flow of organised crime questions the
very heart of the system’s capacity of
restraining such delinquency, namely,
on how the carceral system responds
to such crime trends and the growing
massification of inmates inside prison
walls. Despite the low rate of incarcerated men and women convicted for
organized crime in Portugal, one may
observe an increase in the number of
inmates convicted for trafficking of
narcotics crimes. Although one may
argue that organised crime is, most of
the times, a “men’s thing”, that is not
entirely true. Men and women respond
differently in terms of rehabilitative
prospects, once incarcerated. In terms
of imprisonment effectiveness, this
may raise several problems which need
diverse and renovated responses from
inside the punitive system, and demand
new tools, specifically those able to
better endow carceral professionals
and reinforce their daily intervention
on a holistic-based vision. While some
authors tend to believe in the “power
of release”, towards an abolitionist era,
the new wave of organised, transnational delinquency, which sometimes
flourishes inside powerful structures
and even within the state structures,
poses intricate challenges in the tra-
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ditional incarceration model, forcing Inês Farinha
others to believe in the “power of incarceration”. Alongside this bidirectional
phenomenon, we are currently living
under a profound security-focused
moment which may fashion disruptive
options, contrary to the rehabilitation goals foreseen in article 40 of the
Portuguese Penal Code. Through this
approach we aim to depict the main
concerns within organised crime inside
the prison institution, analysing the
gender impact on organised crime in
Portuguese incarceration system. The
questions we intend to answer revolve
around the evaluation of levels of intervention on both men and women during
the incarceration period, through statistical data and academic studies supported by empirical research. Ultimately
our goal is to verify whether the prison
sentence can be effective on combating
recidivism, and its reflections on men
and women in the field of organised
crime. It is crucial to understand how
does our system cope with this type of
inmates, given the incapacity of prison
walls to filter crime. Current perceptions
of engaging organised crime may vary
according to gender, and, likewise, the
model of incarceration must be put into
perspective, if we still want to believe in
such an effective system and its potential, bringing back into society responsible men and women.
Keywords: Punitive System, Prison, Gender,
Effectiveness, Recidivism.
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PRISONS, CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS,
DRUG CRIMINALIZATION AND INCARCERATION
Ref.: 062M22020
THE WAR ON ORGANIZED CRIME AFTER REDEMOCRATIZATION
IN BRAZIL:
FROM HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE
TO MASS INCARCERATION
Pedro de Almeida
Camargos,
Laurindo Dias Minhoto
& Alexandre Nogueira
Martins
FFLCH/USP
COIMBRA 2020
This presentation analyzes how the
specter of “organized crime” influenced
the formulation of penal policies by the
Brazilian Federal Government following
re-democratization. Based on legislation enacted by the Cardoso (19952002) and Lula da Silva (2003-2010)
administrations, we hypothesize that
the existence of networks and practices linked to black markets in Brazilian cities and prisons was used as a
key justification for the implementation
of a series of repressive policies and
surveillance measures. The article is
based on a review of the Cardoso and
Lula da Silva administrations, including
their respective policy proposals during
presidential campaigns, National Public
Safety Plans, actual public safety and
national security policies, and changes
to criminal legislation targeting organized crime. The research also analyzes
official data on crime, violence, and
incarceration during this time. Moreover, it is important to highlight that we
chose to study these presidential terms
because they are considered a democratically stable period in Brazil, while
illegal network activities grew stronger
across the country and an extraordinary
growth in Brazil’s imprisonment rates
took place. In particular, the presentation traces how “criminal organizations”
–especially those connected to the illegal sale of drugs and firearms –came
to be considered by the Brazilian government as one of the most prominent
threats to national security and public
safety and, therefore, to the protection
of Human Rights and democratic rule of
law. In this way, these networks were
considered a dangerous enemy, both
internal and external, which required
preemptive action and tough measures
from the security forces. We argue that,
as a result of viewing the issue in these
terms, Brazilian policymakers relied on
militaristic strategies, such as the use
of armed forces in operations to “maintain law and order” and the creation of
the “Public Safety National Force”, and
on wide-ranging penal legislation targeting organized crime, money laundering, and drugs. We argue, however,
that these policies failed to prevent the
strengthening of criminal organizations
during this time and failed to achieve
any of the allegedly intended goals of
protecting Humans Rights. The main
effect of this political option for militarizing crime control in Brazil was the
widening of the punitive network, especially the rising rates of imprisonment
and police brutality against members
of marginalized groups. In conclusion,
we argue that this paradigm of war
on organized crime –which grew even
stronger after the analyzed period –has
led and continues to lead to further violations of constitutional guarantees in
Brazil.
Keywords: Organized Crime, Punishment,
Criminal Policy, Mass Incarceration,
Public Safety.
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CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS AND REBELLIONS IN BRAZILIAN PRISONS:
AN ANALYSIS OF OBJECTIVE (AS A CAUSE)
AND SUBJECTIVE (AS A SYMPTOM) VIOLENCES
The general objective aims to verify
if the rebellions fomented by Criminal
Organizations in the Brazilian Prison
System and perceived outside jail (subjective violence) are a reflection of the
systemic violence resulted from the
regular functioning of the incarceration
process in Brazil. The specific objectives are: a) realize the counterpoint
between Subjective (manifest) and
Objective (Hidden) Violence’s to show
that Subjective Violence (Slavoj Zizek)
is, perhaps, only the most visible proposal of all the other possible interpretations, considering sensitive aspects
of this phenomenon; b)understand the
schemes that govern the goals of subjects’domination in the visibility policies
of Subjective Violence and “election”
(René Girard) of the motivating agent
of this violence that reproduces itself
socially ;c)explain how the process of
Institutionalized Criminal Control occurs
from what is known as “Legitimate Violence” (Max Weber) from three stages:
Legitimate Violence in the primary criminalization process; Legitimate violence
in the secondary criminalization process; and, finally, legitimate violence
and the process of incarceration; d)
demonstrate that the manifestations of
criminal organizations linked to prisons
and absorbed into these environments
are a reflection of Systemic Violence
practiced by criminal control segments
against a person arrested in the “regular” incarceration process. In the end,
the following results were obtained: i)
violence is an interpretation, it is an
attribution of meaning. The same act
may seem violent or not, depending
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on the context in which it is inserted Airto Chaves Junior
and the point of view from which it is UNIVALI
observed; ii)the mystification of the
rebellions contributes to the process
of invisibility of the fundamental forms
of Systemic Violence, notably from the
institutions themselves from which, to a
large extent, Subjective Violence is only
its product; iii)the cause (Objective Violence) is not always revealed by traditional instruments of containment, but
by violent reactions of “anti-violence”
(symptom);iv)upon entering the prison
environment, the prisoner faces violations of rights that go beyond his freedom to come and go (penalty limits),
from which the State ends up producing
and reproducing the violence that the
state itself should end. This research is
justified to the extent that retribution
through criminal execution aims to deny
the (criminal) fact. However, when the
state denies legally guaranteed rights
in the execution of the sentence, the
sentence itself is denied, consolidating a Criminal Law that lives from the
incomplete realization of its own project.
This denial of denial (Hegel) –is also
a denial of the rights of the prisoner
who denied the law when he practices
a crime – is the very logical matrix
of the failure of the State’s project to
stop Subjective Violence. Regarding
the Research Method, we adopted the
dialectical method (in the study of the
denial of rights by those who instituted
the law) and the sociological method (to
understand the role of this phenomenon
in the rebellions fomented by Criminal
Organizations).
Keywords: Criminal Organizations, Rebellions,
Objective Violence, Subjective Violence,
Prison System.
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PRISONS, CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS,
DRUG CRIMINALIZATION AND INCARCERATION
Ref.: 227M22020
WOMEN’S CRIMINALIZATION FOR ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFICKING
IN BRAZIL FROM A MARXIST FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY
PERSPECTIVE
Lucely Ginani Bordon
Federal University of Rio Grande
do Norte
COIMBRA 2020
Penal punitivism and mass incarceration are the new ways of managing
the excluded people from the globalized
economy and the socially marginalized
ones, with the “war on drugs” being
the center of social classes control by
the capitalist society. However, it is necessary to consider the dynamics and
experiences of vulnerability in female
representation determined by the social
construction of gender, race and sexuality roles in an imperialist capitalist world
to comprehend women’s criminalization
for illicit drug trafficking. This paper is
a literature review of Feminist Criminology, with an intersectional approach that
adopts Marxist Feminism as a theoretical framework, and specifically its Social
Reproduction Theory, that spotlights
the work that produces the workforce.
The analysis relates neoliberal economic
policies in Brazil, racialization and feminization of poverty and sexual division
of labor to women’s mode of insertion
and participation in the illicit drug market. In Brazil, between the early 2000s
and June 2016, the female prison population increased by 656%, with 62%
of female incarceration being linked to
drug trafficking, despite the male percentage being only 26%, according to
Levantamento Nacional de Informações
Penitenciárias -INFOPEN MULHERES
(National Survey of Penitentiary Gendered Information) from the Departamento Penitenciário Nacional –DEPEN
(National Penitentiary Department). At
the same time, according to disaggregated data about brazilian labor market
in Pesquisas Nacionais por Amostra de
Domicílio -PNADs (National Household
Sample Surveys) from the Instituto
Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística –
IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography
and Statistics) it’s possible to infer that,
although the labor market has become
more accessible to women, this cannot be pointed as a sign of women’s
emancipation. Actually, globalized capitalism transformations made the capital
need the female workforce in unsafe
and underpaid occupations in the labor
market. At the same time, the responsibility for social reproduction work has
not been removed from women, ensuing in their dual exploitation by capital. Thus, the feminization of poverty
resulting from neoliberal economic policies and the international, sexual and
racial division of labor influence women
to search for alternative means of survival, that allow them to accumulate
it with the social reproduction labor,
exactly where the illicit drug market is
included. Since sexual division of labor
is reproduced in drug trafficking hierarchical organization, women enter the
trafficking scheme by exercising secondary functions, mainly in the transport of drugs, and because of that the
Penal System selects them more easily.
The role war on drugs plays in expanding penal system affects mainly those
who are under a greater structure of
oppression. Therefore, women’s criminalization for drug trafficking reveals
the gendered economic exploitation and
social oppression in a capitalist system.
Keywords: Criminalization of Women, War
on Drugs, Social Reproduction Theory, Sexual
Division of Labor, Marxist Feminist Criminology.
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REGIONAL
SYSTEMS OF
HUMAN RIGHTS
AND HUMAN
RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS
IN PRISON
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REGIONAL SYSTEMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN PRISON
Ref.: 006M12020
THE PRISIONER’S FAMILY UNDER THE PROTECTION
OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
This paper aims to make a reflection
on whether the restrictions to the protection of “family life” of the prisoners of the Council of Europe’s Member
States comply with the principles laid
down in the European Convention on
Human Rights. In fact, after concluding
that the Convention of Rome does not
guarantee specific rights to prisoners
and after making an excursus on the
several instruments created within this
“club of democracies” in order to protect the human rights of prisoners, we
intend to outline the general lines of the
European Court of Human Rights’ caselaw on this regard, especially reading
articles 8 and 12 of the Convention,
which grants protection to the “right to
respect for private and family life” and
to the “right to marry”. Thus, we intend
to analyse the topic of visitation rights,
temporary releases and telephone calls
as well as prisoners’ parental rights.
We also aim to examine the prisoners’
right to marry, to find a family and to
maintain a married life. Based on the
extensive corpus of case-law on the
protection of prisoner’s “family life, we
will find that the Court attaches considerable importance to the proportional-
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ity test of the restrictive measure and Susana Almeida
that in this analysis the Court takes Leiria Polytechnic Institute
into account the duration of the restric- Portucalense Institute
for Legal Research
tion, as well as the reasons pointed out
by authorities or the consideration of
other less restrictive measures. On the
other hand, regarding the denial of the
permission to temporary release, the
European Court verifies whether the
measure is necessary in a democratic
society, taking in consideration factors
such as the stage of the process, the
nature of the crime committed, prisoner’s personality, the severity of the relative’s illness, the type of relationship
or the possibility of supervision. In what
concerns supervision, interception and
censorship of correspondence, we will
see that the Court’s assessment generally focuses on finding whether the
measure is according to law. Finally, we
will analyse some case regarding the
right to “intimate visits” or ius connubii.
Keywords: Prisoners, European Court
of Human Rights, Family Life; Visits,
Rights’ Restrictions.
COIMBRA 2020
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
REGIONAL SYSTEMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN PRISON
Ref.: 011M22020
INTERNAL LAW AND TRANSPHOBIC VIOLENCE
IN A MALE PRISON IN MÉXICO CITY
Chloé Constant
FLACSO Mexico
COIMBRA 2020
Asking if Mexican prisons are democratic could sound rhetorical, even
ironic, and maybe both, mostly if we
focus on sexuality. This presentation
aims to define the “internal law” and
to analyze how the dispositif of sexuality operates toward trans* women
imprisoned in a male prison in Mexico
City, in order to understand how sexual norms that come from the heteropatriarchal model intersected with the
‘‘internal law’’ produce transphobic violence. The talk is based on the queer
theory, Foucault’s works on sexuality
and power, Segato’s theory about war
against women’s bodies and on a fieldwork realized between 2015 and 2019
in Mexico City, with prisoners and former prisoners. In 2015 and 2016, I
realized eleven in-depth interviews and
two writing workshops with ten gays
and trans* prisoners; in 2018 and 2019,
I realized in-depth interviews with five
formers prisoners and shared several
moments and every-day life spaces
with them. This method is inspired on
the socio-anthropological life trajectories method and on feminist methodology, which allows breaking important
barriers between who investigates and
who is investigated. The Foucault’s dis-
positif of sexuality works in a particular way inside prison and turns into
what I name the “prison dispositif of
sexuality”. This is the result of the heteropatriarchal model and laws defined
by both prisoners and prison workers,
all involved in the Mexican war context.
This “legal” configuration inside prison
is a new one comparing with the “legal
pluralism” analyzed at the beginning
on the 21st century by Enríquez Rubio.
Mexican’s data and reality have changed,
also prison reality. So, appears what I
define as “internal law”. Its effects are
materialized through violence toward
trans* women whose bodies serve for
rape, male appropriation and exchange
between powerful individuals. I want
to demonstrate how specific violence
toward trans* women imprisoned in a
male prison deepens violent dynamics
that occur out of the prison. So, it questions the meaning of a sentence in the
actual Mexican prison system. Also, it
may help to think about staff’s training and education to guarantee basic
human rights for imprisoned trans*
people.
Keywords: Prison, Trans*, Gender, Violence,
Mexico.
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Ref.: 186M22020
THE INTERSECTIONAL VIEW OF WOMEN DEPRIVED
OF THEIR LIBERTY IN THE INTER-AMERICAN
HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM
The theoretical framework mainly
comprises the analysis of normative
sources, soft law instruments and interpretation of the Inter-American Human
Rights System. While the IACHR has
several reports on persons deprived of
their liberty and the special vulnerability of women in this situation, the
Inter-American Court has specific cases,
such as the case of Loayza Tamayo v.
Peru; case Gelman v. Uruguay; case J
vs Peru; case Maritza Urrutia vs. Guatemala, and perhaps the most emblematic,
Prison Miguel Castro Castro vs. Peru.
As for the methodology, the study was
carried out in three stages. Preliminarily,
the bibliographic review, as well as a
study of the normative and interpretive
guidelines present in the Inter-American Human Rights System. Then, a
qualitative and quantitative research
in relation to the contentious cases
analyzed by the Inter-American Court
will follow. Finally, after data collection,
the subjective interpretation of the data
obtained will be carried out, performing a comparative and critical analysis,
in order to identify the main problems
encountered. As a result, it was possible to see that in all the cases analyzed,
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the gender factor interfered not only in Catarina Mendes Valente
the judgment of the sentence, but also Ramos
in the granting of reparations. Likewise, UFPR
it is possible to observe developments
in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court in verses explicitly on intersectionality, although the Belém do Pará
Convention still seems to have a limited
scope in these situations. Given all of
the above, it is understood that the
intersectional bias is shown as the best
interpretative means for the demands
of women deprived of liberty, in order to
expand the protection of rights, as has
already been done in a timid way by the
Inter-American Human Rights System.
Keywords: Women; Prison, Overlapping
Vulnerability, Inter-American.
COIMBRA 2020
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
REGIONAL SYSTEMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN PRISON
Ref.: 177M22020
ETHICAL CHALLENGES FOR ACADEMIC INVESTIGATION
AND THE POSSIBILITY OF BUILDING CITIZENSHIP
IN SPACES OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
Luciana Paiva Coronel
& Cláudia Carneiro Peixoto
Federal University of Rio Grande
COIMBRA 2020
Introduction: We aim to discuss the
ethical challenges of teaching, in prison
context, from the experience of the university extension project of remission
by reading “Ler é Liberdade” (“Reading is freedom”), which provided twenty
places for closed regime inmates, distributed between women and men.
This Project was developed during the
second half of the year 2019, through
partnership between the Instituto de
Letras e Artes (ILA), the Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) and the
Penitenciária Estadual do Rio Grande
(PERG). Methodology: In the present
study, we used the dialectical method,
based on the confrontation of the prison
reality, with qualitative approach and
bibliographic technique, in order to
address the pedagogical experience
with a class consisting of twelve inmates
from the isolation cells destined to people segregated for crimes against sexual freedom, which suffer death threats,
LGBT population and faction members.
Discussion of results: The reflexion
about ethical challenge in academic
investigation and the possibility of construction of citizenship in a space of
human rights violation and deprivation
of basic citizenship rights took place in
the scope of the application of pedagogical method idealized by Paulo Freire,
which, among other aspects, considers the dialectical thinking of human
plurality. Besides, it understands that
reading the world precedes reading
the word. In this context, an education
that claims to be emancipatory cannot be separated from the world and
from the reality of learners. In this perspective, the self-narration process of
learners in a closed regime –made by
words, images, or orally – is considered as interpretation and reading of
the student’s world and, therefore, as
reading, interpretation and problematization of individuals themselves in
prison space. The emancipatory education in the prison system, which is
marked by material precariousness and
human vulnerability, requires educators
who understand that human behavior
is inserted in social relations. Conclusion: The learners’ narratives express
and represent the violence of the prison
system as constitutive of the self-report
and, in a dialectical relation, permeates
the academic research and the teaching activity beyond social denunciation,
extending to an instance of mutual critical understanding of human rights violations. From this critical understanding,
we believe in the possibility of building citizenship in spaces of violation of
human rights.
Keywords: Ethical Challenges, Academic
Investigation, Prison System, Narrative
of Oneself, Citizenship.
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HUMAN RIGHTS,
BUSINESS
AND PRISON
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HUMAN RIGHTS, BUSINESS AND PRISON
Ref.: 034M22020
THE INFLUENCE OF CAPITALISM IN THE LABORPHERIC LOGIC
OF THE FEMALE PRISON SYSTEM AND THE EFFECTIVENESS
OF WORK WORKSHOPS FOR REINTEGRATION
Work programs in the female prisons
of Brazil are far from promoting participants’ personal dignity, their learning
new marketable skills, or even providing a potential source of remuneration.
The real effect of imprisonment work
programs is inflicting a painful conscience and imposing atonement. Critical criminology presents the actual
ineffectiveness of prisons and demystifies how capitalism influences thinking
about work in European, North American, and Brazilian jails. In relation
to female prisons, critical criminology
reflects the androgynous character of
laws, the inadequate architecture in
prisons, and the improper work settings
for women. Factual reality presents
unattractive work, focused on domestic chores, with low profitability and
subject to discontinuity due to policy
changes in Brazilian prison administrations. Through bibliographic research
with a descriptive inductive method, the
first stage sought to carry out a theoretical approach to critical criminology
on the influence of European and North
American capitalism and subsequently
the differential of Brazilian capitalism
in the development of work programs
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in the prisons of these countries. Sys- Yuri Fedrigo Dutra
tematizing the feminist criminology and EMDD/PUC-PR
its approach to prison issues in Brazil
was the aim of the second stage of this
research. In the third stage, through
the description of empirical works carried out in some Brazilian states, the
reality of women inmates inside the
walls was presented. The results were:
the moral nature of work, as conceived
by European liberalism, does not fit into
the Brazilian reality that retains traces
of slavery and colonialism simultaneously with liberal capitalism. These
characteristics are reflected in prisons,
as they hold the lower-class population
in inferior jobs and gives the inmates
a poor-quality education. As a result,
the work carried out in these programs
is not intended to generate adequate
compensation, much less emancipate
participants, but rather neutralizes,
stigmatizes and exterminates, as they
died in the worst conditions living in
prison. Critical feminist criminology
denounces the prison system in its
architecture and its rules that do not
aim at gender differentiation. Patriarchal policymakers and administrators
created this result with antiquated and
COIMBRA 2020
HUMAN RIGHTS, BUSINESS AND PRISON
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 034M22020
THE INFLUENCE OF CAPITALISM IN THE LABORPHERIC LOGIC OF THE FEMALE PRISON SYSTEM
AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WORK WORKSHOPS FOR REINTEGRATION
Yuri Fedrigo Dutra
EMDD/PUC-PR
conventional perspectives that did not
consider gender differences and failed
to visualize female needs inside prisons. In practice, the work carried out by
female inmates does not compensate
them at levels comparable to the general labor market. Their remuneration
is low, and the work is not very attractive. There is a discontinuity within
the work programs because those who
plan and implement them are political
appointees, subject to rotation. We can
conclude that, in Brazilian women’s
prisons, there are few policies for the
implementation of work with an emancipatory character, such as training in
trades that can be absorbed by the
labor market in external society. Most of
the crafts produced by participants are
handmade and focused on residential
care. Other factors that block the goal
of emancipating participants include a
punitive attitude among policymakers
that the State should not reward prisoners with the same compensation as
free citizens. It also includes the lack
of continuity of effective labor therapy
policies due to the constant change of
penitentiary managers by the prison
system impedes.
Keywords: Brazilian Prison, Female Prison
Work, Critical Criminology.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, BUSINESS AND PRISON
Ref.: 036M22020
WORK IN PRISONS:
THE GENDER DIFFERENCE THAT INTENSIFIES
WITH THE INCARCERATION AND INDICATES THE LACK
OF HUMAN DIGNITY
According to the gender statistics:
social indicators of women in Brazil
(IBGE, 2010), the female participation
in the labour market tripled over the
years, however receive 75% of men’s
salary and occupy about 39,1% of commanding positions. In the penitentiary
system, the situation is reversed, the
number of incarcerated women who
work is higher compared to men, however the conditions referring to human
dignity when we speak about gender
are unconstitutional. This project have
as the leading goal to bring to the academic debate the issue of dignity in
the work environment of imprisoned
women, once that the prison system
increases and ratifies gender differences. To archive, the research purpose, the methodology used will be
bibliographic and documentary based
on the analysis of data from the profile
of incarcerated women, access to work
and education in the prison environment.
Only 7% of prison establishments are
destined exclusively to women, while
75% of prisons are aimed exclusively
to men. With a prison population of
37.828 incarcerated women, according
to a study from Pastoral Carcerária in
collaboration with Ong Conectas (2012),
these women are part of vulnerable
groups and social exclusion with low
schooling, single mothers with an average of more than two children and 95%
of them had already been victims of
violence at some point in life. When we
speak about labour, we realize 34,03%
of women in labour activities in pris-
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ons, larger than the percentage of men Lorena Carvalho Leite
in labour activities, about 18,9% (G1, Garcia de Oliveira
2019). The percentage of the incar- Federal University of Oeste da Bahia
cerated women population that works
doesn’t show the effectiveness of their
rights or equal employment in the prison
environment, once that the major cause
of the arrests is the crime of drugs trafficking, used by many to supplement
the family income. We are talking about
women without jobs or education that
end up in trafficking. The access to work
for women is segregated, highly perceptible when comparing wages, we are
not speaking about the lack of education, because the percentage of women
with higher education is superior, we
talk about prejudice towards gender. In
terms of incarcerated women the conjuncture aggravates, the prison situation is unconstitutional, to begin with
the lack of prisons destined to women
as in the fifth article, item XLVIII, what
impacts their work and education. The
work is segregating, and in the prison
environment where the resocialization
is absent, nonexistent, the incarcerated
women live in a vicious cycle of lack of
human dignity, segregation, don’t having opportunities of reinsertion in the
labour market, insertion, for those who
are mostly heads of families, unemployed and resort to crime, without
support from the state, whether they
are deprived of their freedom or not.
Keywords: Women, Prison, Work,
Human Dignity.
COIMBRA 2020
HUMAN RIGHTS, BUSINESS AND PRISON
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 053M22020
THE INCORPORATION OF WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
PRINCIPLES (WEPS) AS CRITERIA FOR GRANTING
THE NATIONAL SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY STAMP
FOR PRISON WORK
Ana Maria D’Ávila Lopes,
Marynna Laís Quirino
Pereira
& Lucas Vieira Barjud
Marques
University of Fortaleza
COIMBRA 2020
In 2000, Kofi Annan, then Secretary
General of the United Nations (UN),
launched the Global Compact (GC),
with the aim of promoting that companies align their strategies and activities around ten principles structured in
three areas: human rights, work and
environment. In 2004, he added the
area related to the fight against corruption. GC is today the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the
world, encompassing more than 13,000
companies from 160 countries, aimed
at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this sense,
based on Objective 5 (Gender Equality),
the GC and UN Women approved, in
2010, the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) for companies to incorporate values and practices of gender
equity and women’s empowerment. In
this context, our work aims to propose
the incorporation of WEPs as a criterion for the granting of the National
Seal of Social Responsibility for Prison
Work (RESCUE). RESCUE was created
in 2017 by the National Penitentiary
Department (DEPEN), of the Brazilian
State, with the purpose of recognizing public and private institutions that
hire people deprived of their liberty or
those released from the national prison
system. Gender discrimination against
women in the labor market remains a
scourge for our society. This situation
is even more aggravated in the case of
women prisoners or those leaving the
prison system. It is, therefore, crucial
to recognize this intersectionality and
implement measures that can help to
reverse this situation of discrimination.
In order to carry out this work, we
resorted to the survey and bibliographic
examination of the subjects addressed,
as well as documentary analysis of
national and international legislation.
In this way, it was verified that the
incorporation of WEPs to the RESGATA
will encourage the association of more
companies to the first and will fortify
the protection afforded by the second
to women prisoners or members of the
prison system.
Keywords: Global Compact, RESCUE, WEPs,
Gender Discrimination, Women Prisoners.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, BUSINESS AND PRISON
Ref.: 059M22020
THE TRAJECTORY OF PRIVATE PRISONS IN BRAZIL:
AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONTEST FOR LEGITIMACY
IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE
This article presupposes that efforts to
delegate prison management to private
companies require active legitimation,
given that they call into question both
the state monopoly on coercive power
as well as the compatibility of the profit
motive with the social significance of
punishment. This is especially relevant
in Brazil, where enduring enthusiasm
from political and economic actors has
not prevented the issue from becoming
a subject of controversy and contestation. Whether in terms of expensive
contracts that place a heavy fiscal
burden on public coffers, persistent
questions around constitutionality, or
serious security deficiencies, private
prisons in Brazil have largely failed to
fulfill promises of cost-effectiveness and
improved prisoner welfare. By investigating two spheres of the public debate
in Brazil regarding prison privatization,
we illuminate the discursive forces that
sustain the model’s relevance and political viability, even as these flaws and
shortcomings come to light in different
states. First, we analyze the frames
present in 405 articles published on the
topic by three major Brazilian newspapers from 1984 to 2019, with the aim
of determining the extent to which
mass-media agenda-setting followed
persistent and politically relevant patterns capable of shaping the parameters
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of public debate. Then, in recognizing Peter Glennon Lanzarotta
social media’s growing influence on Smith
public opinion, we examine comments & Laurindo Dias Minhoto
posted by Facebook users in response University of São Paulo
to three posts on the Brazilian Senate
public page about prison privatization.
The newspaper analysis demonstrates
not only the predominance of market
rationality over legal and political considerations but also the appropriation of
arguments concerning prisoner rehabilitation in order to defend the proposal at
key junctures. In social media, on the
other hand, we observe the prevalence
of penal populist rhetoric that promotes
the model based on the imperative to
“make inmates suffer”. We conclude
that, although the debates about private prisons in mass and social media
involve distinct and seemingly antithetical legitimation dynamics, they
also reveal a degree of complementarity between neoliberal and neoconservative discourses that appears to
challenge the implementation of penal
policies based on the rule of law in current-day Brazil.
Keywords: Privatization, Legitimacy,
Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, Mass Media.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 133M12020
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS IN PRISON WORK ADMINISTRATION
Tiago Leitão,
Alexandra Gomes
& Rita Martins
University of Fortaleza
COIMBRA 2020
Previous research suggests that finding a proper job and maintaining it can
decrease former inmates’ odds of reoffending and helps them in the rehabilitation process. Therefore, employment
is known to be a key factor in helping to reduce reoffending. Research
confirms that social reintegration is
directly linked to re-entry into the
labour market and prison workshops
aim to fulfill a vital role in providing
and maintaining essential work habits
(Latissa, 2012). This is where prison
work shows its significant importance by
developing inmates’ fundamental skills
and maintaining their minds occupied
while providing work habits and ethics.
Additionally, the prison staff and prison
administrations also need the training
to deliver these plausible programmes
in prison. In fact, the success of the first
depends, in a great portion, on the success of the staff’s training. Providing the
staff with business management skills
is a necessary step to increase prison
work quality and quantity, by developing updated, innovative and applicable
prison workshops; thus, increasing the
chances to succeed in inmates’ rehabilitation starting from prison. Based on
this idea, three training courses, with
a total of 77 participants, were organised and delivered to a heterogeneous
group of prison staff, namely: prison
managers, prison administrators, prison
officers, educators, and teachers, from
different countries: Portugal, Romania
and Turkey. The aims of these training courses were to prepare prison
staff to identify opportunities, develop
and manage “prison work”, increasing
the opportunities of qualified work for
inmates, develop their work skills and
generation of own funds. The results
obtained from these training courses
showed that all participants increased
and developed not only specific and
hard skills (with particular focus on
the usage of ICT in the economic field,
marketing and prison work and industries awareness), but also valuable soft
skills (business communication, work
in multidisciplinary teams and other).
It is essential to keep the prison staff
updated, trained and aware of new
ideas, plans, methods, to create meaningful workshops that actually provide
inmates with an opportunity outside
the gate into the labour market. ECOPRIS training course showed the need
to invest in prison work to pursue the
rehabilitation mission effectively
Keywords: Prison Work, Staff Training,
Business Management, Reintegration,
Recidivism.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, BUSINESS AND PRISON
Ref.: 179M12020
THE INSERTION OF PRISONERS IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES
WITHIN THE BRAZILIAN PRISON SYSTEM:
REINTEGRATION INTO THE LABOR MARKET
According to the National Register of
Inspections of Criminal Establishments
(CNIEP), a database maintained by the
National Council of Justice (CNJ) and
which provides an overview of Brazilian
prisons, through the geopresidium platform, the country currently has 434,993
thousand places distributed 2,775 custody establishments. On the other hand,
the National Penitentiary Department
(DEPEN), an organ linked to the federal
government, released last February the
updated national survey of penitentiary
information, through the infopen system, referring to 2019, which pointed
out that there were 773,151 thousand
incarcerated people in Brazil, in all sentence enforcement regimes, including
in this number, pre-trial detainees who,
in reality in Brazilian prison, account for
almost half of the prison mass, 41.5%
(CNJ, 2019). This denotes a deficit of
vacancies in all states of the federation,
which varies from 10.87% (Bahia) to
165.36% (Recife), according to geopresidium data, updated month by month
by the Criminal Execution Courts. In
addition to this overcrowding scenario,
the structural conditions of Brazilian
prisons have historically fallen far short
of minimal ideals, with many being
unhealthy and with little or no prospect
of resocialization itself. Above all, in the
sense of offering professional or occupational activities that, in addition to
seeking the remission of the sentence,
provide the prisoner with the possibility
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of contributing to society in the future Olívia Costa Lima Ricarte
and the recovery of their self-esteem ESDC/SP
as a human being subject to rights & Fabrizio Bon Vecchio
(principle of dignity) the human per- UNISINOS
son) and, from the point of view of the
social-collective, that prevents him from
returning to criminality, in this sense,
it deserves the point that the rate of
criminal reiteration in Brazil is also
high; 70%, according to a report by the
Institute for Applied Economic Research
(IPEA). In this tuning fork, even though
forced labor is prohibited in the country (Federal Constitution, article 5, item
XLVII, item “c”), it is common ground
that many want to work spontaneously,
and pursuing this spectrum, the present
study will address the current job possibilities within the prison system, using
the labor of the prisoner, either as submitted to the bidding companies that
operate in the system, or in the form
of cooperatives. The working method
will be based on the observation of successful experiences across the country,
the discussion will take place around
the modalities of these work fronts as
well as the results obtained. It is hoped
to achieve a general and optimistic
panorama about these experiences, in
order to use them as examples for similar realities, in Brazil and in the world.
Keywords: Human Dignity, Resocialization,
Prison Population.
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ADOLESCENTS
IN THE SOCIO
-EDUCATIONAL
SYSTEM
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ADOLESCENTS IN THE SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
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STRATEGIES FOR CONSENSUAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION
IN THE SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM:
EXPERIENCE REPORTS
We can define the field of the use of
strategies for consensual conflict resolution in the socio-educational system
in Brazil as a field under construction.
Based on the field experience of three
researchers, who conducted a national
research on “Strategies for consensual
conflict resolution within the framework
of deprivation of liberty units” funded
by the Ministry of Women, Family and
Human Rights (MMFDH) and implemented by the Non-Governmental Organization. -Terre des Hommes, we will
present in this article the summary of
three different methodological accounts
about the research carried out. This
article aims to present the experience of
the researchers with the research about
the socio-educational system and the
utilization of methodologies for consensual conflict resolution, mainly, in the
field of the deprivation of liberty. Initially, we assigned the Brazilian states
to each researcher and a documentary
analysis of the internal regulations
of the internment units of each state
was carried out. It is noteworthy that
the research, primarily of a qualitative
nature, was conducted through on-site
visits in the 27 states of the federation
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and the interview methodology, using Walker José Lima Filho
semi-structured questionnaires, was CLACSO Argentina
the main collection instrument. The & Anelise Gregis Estivalet
field diary and the photography we UnB
are also used. In the results part, we
highlighted the experiences and the
learnings of the researchers during the
fieldwork. Among them, we could quote
the utilization of the auto compositive
methodologies in the socio-educational
system, mainly the emphasis given to
restorative justice. We saw that for an
effective work related to the utilization
of auto compositive practices in the
field of the socio-educational system
it was necessary to forfity the guarantee of rights net. We also discussed
the strategies to the fieldwork of the
researchers. Thus, when concluding the
research, we realized that the use of
the qualitative methodological premise
corresponded satisfactorily considering
the researches involving public policies
and human rights, especially regarding
the collection of data that still exists in
a subjective field that lacks systematization.
Keywords: Qualitative Methodologies,
Socio-educational System, Consensual Conflict
Resolution, Deprivation of Liberty.
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AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF PLEA BARGAINING
IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
Alicia Montero Molera
& Esther Fernández Molina
University of Castilla – La Mancha
COIMBRA 2020
Nowadays plea bargaining is a
common and accepted legal practice
in adult and juvenile justice system.
Even though most of criminal convictions come from negotiated pleas, little
empirical research has focused exclusively in this field. Despite its popularity
and prevalence, plea bargaining is not
without controversy and this mechanism has been criticized for a host of
issues. Through a plea bargain, the
defendant agrees to plead guilty to the
charges in return of a lenient sentence
and procedural agility of the case. This
negotiation between the prosecution
and the lawyer is characterized by its
lack of transparency shortly before the
hearing. In the specific case of juveniles,
they are more likely than adults to have
deficits in the capacities necessary to
be competent at trial, are less likely to
fully appreciate future consequences,
are more likely to be influenced by
peers and parents and are less likely to
understand their rights. These deficiencies have largely been ascribed to their
immature socioemotional, cognitive and
neurological development. So, although
many researches have examined youth
legal capacities, there is scant research
on juvenile decision-making in the context of plea bargaining. Recent studies suggest that plea bargain decisions
are made quickly, with limited information, and are motivated by short-term
outcomes. This study was designed to
examine the plea bargaining process
in juvenile courts among a sample of
219 juveniles offenders in Castilla-La
Mancha (Spain). Our preliminary results
find that 67% of juveniles are convicted
through a plea bargain. Moreover, gender, age, type of offense, recidivism and
number of victims are not correlated
with the plea bargain process. Therefore, it is explored if other structural
variables can influence this plea bargain
process. Thus, in the preliminary analysis it has been found that juveniles
with a public defender are more likely
to accept a plea bargain. Results and
implications of this work are discussed.
Keywords: Plea Bargaining, Sentence
Reduction, Negotiated Justice, Juvenile Offender,
Adolescent Decision Making.
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Ref.: 118M22020
GENDER INFLUENCE IN SENTENCING IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
There is a wide scientific consensus
that gender is an extralegal factor that
influences sentencing in criminal justice systems. There are different explanations about the influence of gender;
moreover, there is controversy about
its possible effect in the sentences.
Some research finds a benevolent treatment towards women, but others support that they are treated worse. The
selective chivalry theory suggests that
women receive lenient sentences when
they commit crimes according to the
female gender role, but they receive
more severe penalties when they distance from it. Most empirical research in
this field focuses on adult justice. However, juvenile justice system could be
especially permeable to gender. Some
researchers suggest that girls don’t
benefit from a benevolent treatment.
This fact is related to the concept of
judicial paternalism, which suggests
that girls are judged for less serious
crimes than boys and they receive more
formal supervision than them. This concept has been studied in Anglo-Saxon
countries, but it is scarcely explored
in another cultural context, like Spain.
The goal of this paper is to analyse the
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influence of the gender in the sentencing processes of the Spanish juvenile
justice system, controlling legal variables (type of crime, seriousness, prior
record) and extralegal variables (scholar
and familiar factors of processed youth).
Moreover, it will be verified if these
strategies have evolved over the years.
For this purpose, we used three subsamples of open files in juvenile justice:
one of 1996-1998, other of 2001-2002
and another of 2012-2018. Overall, the
sample includes data from more than
3000 youths processed between 1996
and 2018 in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
courts. Some preliminary results show
that gender has little influence in judicial decisions in Spain. Other extralegal factors, as school performance or
familiar problems, seems to influence
more the decisions than gender. Results
show that youth with problematic life
are punished more severely than their
counterparts.
Raquel Bartolomé
Gutiérrez,
Alicia Montero Molera,
Ana Páez-Mérida
& Esther Fernández-Molina
University of Castilla – La Mancha
Keywords: Gender, Juvenile Justice System,
Sentencing, Decision-making.
COIMBRA 2020
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 243M22020
WHAT’S CRITICAL ABOUT JUVENILE PROBATION?
THE CASE OF YOUNG WOMEN OFFENDERS IN SÃO PAULO
Laís Silva Vieira
Federal University of São Paulo
COIMBRA 2020
The object of this research is the
social-educative care offered to young
women in juvenile probation in the city
of São Paulo. The field research was
conducted in five facilities that offer
the non-custodial measure of juvenile probation in the city of São Paulo.
The central question is to analyze the
potential of probation in promoting the
affirmation or transformation of the
gender identities of these adolescents,
considering the material (redistributive)
and symbolic (recognition) dimensions
of their trajectories. Considering these
aspects is necessary because socio-educational policies focus on the economic
dimension as the center of socio-educational interventions and, by doing so,
neglect the symbolic dimension while
also ignoring other markers that affect
this population, such as gender and
class. First of all, it’s important to clarify the theoretical perspective of gender
adopted in this research. Nancy Fraser
built her notion of gender in her theory
of justice, therefore, in the debate about
justice, democracy and redistribution
and recognition. The philosopher analyzed some groups that contain simultaneous demands for redistribution and
recognition to verify the possibilities of
minimizing the mutual interferences
that may emerge when both types of
injustices are present. I argue that, historically, the Brazilian juvenile justice
system has turned to the poor population. In addition, The Statute of the
Child and the Adolescent is focused on
remedies that only take into account
the material and economic dimension
of these adolescents’ trajectories. In
short, when the socio-educational policies focus on affirmative redistribution
programs, they can also be considered
affirmative redistributive politicizes,
however, these policies ignore the fact
that such girls in special face issues
and problems that are not only material, but also symbolic. Moreover, the
practices of juvenile probation in São
Paulo are similar -up to a certain point
-to other socio-educational measures
because they are based on a reified
gender identity. For Nancy Fraser, the
issue of reification is the tendency to
simplify and freeze collective identities
neglecting the plurality of identities of
these adolescents, which can be seen
in the case of these girls in the Brazilian
juvenile justice system. In conclusion,
this socio-educational policy emphasizes the material aspect and redistributive remedies and, by doing so, offers
insufficient answers to the injustices
that bivalent collectivities suffer which
is the case of young girls in probation in
Brazil, and aggravates gender injustices
by basing their practices on a reified
notion of identity.
Keywords: Young Women Offenders, Probation,
Gender, Recognition, Redistribution.
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MIGRATIONS
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PRISON AND MIGRATIONS
Ref.: 135M22020
ARRESTED MIGRANTS IN BRAZIL:
TRAJECTORIES AND STIGMA IN THE PRISIONAL SYSTEM PARANAENSE
The Brazilian prison system have
more than 700.000 priosoners. Among
them, a small number of migrants
are not yet properly registered in the
National Penitentiary Data (Levantamento Nacional de Informações Penitenciárias -Infopen). According to the
state, all of them are foreigners, corresponding to 0,30% of the mentioned
population. This paper aims to identify
such group, to analysis their profile
and their trajectories within Brazilian
prison system with a case study of 13
migrants who were deprived of freedom in Curitiba and metropolitan region
in November 2016. The 13 migrants
related to this study were connected
to more than 20 criminal processes.
Through an analysis of documents, we
present the crimes they were involved,
their social origin, age and gender. In
addition, we also develop an analysis
about their demands, which are different from those of other prisoners, but
mainly how the criminalization of the
migration act is represented in such life
histories. Checking the registers, we
classify the crimes under three different
groups: 1) Crimes concerning Brazilian
anti-drugs law; 2) Crimes against public
goods and 3) Crimes against life. Con-
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cerning the prisoners’ profile, we iden- Priscila Costa Pedroso
tify two groups: Migrants who belonged & Márcio Sérgio Oliveira
to criminal organizations and who used Federal University of Paraná
their transience for crimes they were
connected and Migrants who committed occasional crimes, i.e., without a
complex planning or involvement with
organized groups. This second group is
composed by young people under vulnerable social conditions worsened by
the impossibility of exercising their citizenship and, consequently, of the warranty such exercise allow. As a whole,
we notice a clear division in prisoner
migrant universe. By on side, there are
those whose crimes were committed in
more than one country. Thus, they could
be imprisoned in Brazil or other territories. They are international offenders.
By the other side, there are young people whose trajectories are materialized
on a discourse full of stigma used by
agents who operate the Brazilian justice
system and which practical implications
are the consequence of the use of punitive control held by the state through
those same agents.
Keywords: Arrested Migrants, Criminal
Trajectories, Criminalization of Migrants.
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Ref.: 199M22020
A GENDERED DEPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE:
SPANISH DEPORTATION CENTERS’ SPATIAL CONDITIONS
AND VIOLENCES
Antonio Giráldez López
Polytechnic University of Madrid
COIMBRA 2020
Foreigner Detention Centers are a
territorial infrastructure where migrants
pending expulsion are forcibly detained
for up to sixty days or their expulsion
order is executed. Without being considered as a carceral institution, the logics
of architectural and spatial production of
these centers respond–from their legal
creation in 1985–to a carceral paradigm.
However, the absence of a clear regulation until last decade, have provoked an
infracarceral status that led to a series
of exceptional violences. The research
will start from this historical context to
analyze specific violence from a gendered perspective to unveil the specific
violences that enclosed women suffered
due to different factors. Critical mapping
of historical events, from its creation
in 1985 to the present, will be used to
extract information regarding the spatial conditions of the female in mates
within this institution. This will allow us
to focus on the inner violences related
with its built environment and specially
the bureaucratic, legal and architectural
differences between male and female
inmates. Indicators will be used to
better categorize and understand the
bureaucratic, legal, and architectural
asymmetries present between male
and female inmates. Thus, indicators
related to architectural, sexual, health
and regulatory violence are indicated
as the indicators used during the data
extraction phase. Throughout the data
extraction phase, different case studies have been found that allow us to
understand the greater degree of spatial violence suffered by women within
these institutions. A series of events
linked to different types of violence are
indicated below: The death of Samba
Martine, an inmate in the center of Aluche, due to the lack of medical treatment (health violence). Differences in
the spatial organization of male inmates
and female inmates due to the lower
comparison ratio. This excludes women
from certain spaces and equipment in
the centers (courtyards, cleaning services ...).The case of sexual violence
and trafficking in women by police
officers in the center of Capuchinos,
Málaga. Through these case studies,
complemented by similar events of
lesser importance, the following data
are obtained, which show an overlap
of violence on the bodies of the female
inmates. Thus, to a body already forced
into extraordinary spatial violence due
to its confinement in this institution,
there is added an exclusive violence
based on its gender. Only an intersectional reading of this prison institution,
which does not homogenize the prison
population, has been able to uncover
the differences and asymmetries existing at the spatial, architectural and regulatory level in the functioning of these
centers.
Keywords: Borderscapes, Foreign Detention
Centers, Carceral Institutions, Spatial Violence.
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MAPPING MIGRATION DETENTION IN MEXICO:
ESTACIONES MIGRATORIAS,TORTUROUS AND GENDERED SPACES
In the ongoing dynamics of migration politics, undocumented migration
and asylum-seeking are increasingly
criminalized and practices of (arbitrary)
detention of undocumented migrants
are becoming the norm. Furthermore,
empirical studies show that migration detention leaves psychological
marks on the detained subjects. From
a theoretical point of view, following
Agamben’s idea of “the camp” as a paradigmatic figure of differential, migration detention must be regarded as the
space, where totalitarianism manifest:
Detention facilities might be regarded
as opaque institutions and spaces of
exception, where the sovereign state of
exception performs itself. While Agamben argues that the space of detention
produces new forms of total subjectivation where migrant detainees are under
“total” domination, this assumption is
contested by more systemic perspectives that situate migration detention
within gendered and racialized migration regimes within global capitalism.
The latter point towards intersectional
processes of subjectivation and underline the possibility of different forms of
agency within migration detention. In
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order to investigate and visibilize insti- Julia Manek
tutional practices of migration detention Goethe – University of Frankfurt
a psycho-geographical method, based CCTI
on the ideas from feminist and critical
migration research is proposed. It was
applied in the case of the Mexican detention facilities, the so-called Estaciones
Migratorias: N = 20 formerly detained
migrants who had been caught on their
way to the U.S. mapped the particular
spatial structure of the Estación Migratoria, together with their subjective
experiences, feelings and bodily sensations. Five of the interviewees were
women, one person identified as part
of the LGBTQI-community, one person
was detained together with a physically
disabled child. Particular sensibility was
given to (I) the structure and functioning of the detention institution and
(II) on subjectivation processes, with
an analytical focus on intersectional
modes of subjectivation, as well as on
moments of agency and resistance. The
emerging maps and narratives reveal
(I) a structural exposition to extreme
conditions, that –if this exposition had
been conducted by a particular state
official –could be declared torture. As a
consequence, the concept of the “tortur-
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Ref.: 136M12020
MAPPING MIGRATION DETENTION IN MEXICO: ESTACIONES MIGRATORIAS, TORTUROUS
AND GENDERED SPACES
Julia Manek
Goethe – University of Frankfurt
CCTI
ous space”, derived from the theoretical
debate about spaces of exception and
the United Nation standards on torture,
is discussed. (II) While some detainees
were even used to exercise repression
against other detainees, different forms
of subjectivation emerged: In contrast
to open forms of resistance like the
claiming of rights and hunger strikes,
the interviewees revealed different
strategies of hidden agency, e.g. in
order to care for each other, to reinstall
some sort of ordinariness or bearability.
Despite their differences, these particular forms of subjectivation contest the
institutional forms of subjection. Detention practices within Mexican Estaciones
Migratorias contradict democratic principles and deny detainees rights systematically. Still, different forms of open
and hidden agency might “democratize”
life among detainees, especially with
a gendered perspective on care work
within detention centre. The intersectional analysis reveals gendered, sexualized and racialized differences, in the
modes of institutional functioning as
well as in forms of resistance.
Keywords: Migration Detention, Subjectivation,
(Hidden) Agency, Intersectionality,
Feminist Geographies.
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FEMINISM, INTERSECTIONALITY
AND FOREIGN FEMININE RECLUSION
Women have been made invisible, both theoretically and empirically,
within the criminal and penal system
(Gomes & Granja, 2015). According to
Matos and Machado (2007) it is only
from the last decades of the twentieth
century that the first steps in the study
of the trajectories of women inmates
are taken with gender issues as a lens
of analysis. The reality of foreign female
inmates is even more critical and hidden. Although foreign citizens/citizens,
particularly immigrants, tend to be
seen socially as more prone to criminal
activity (Matos & Barbosa, 2015; Matos
et al., 2013), administrative data and
empirical studies show that this is a stereotype and a fallacy (Fonseca, 2010;
Oliveira & Gomes, 2018). Data from the
General Directorate of Reinsertion and
Prison Services of 2019 show that, of
the total of 12,867 inmates in Portugal, only 1971 are foreigners (15.3%).
The number of foreign inmates registers 201, out of a universe of 859
female inmates (23.3%). In addition,
it is noticeable that many of the foreign
inmates are people in transit and not
immigrants, having neither residence
nor professional activity in Portugal
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(Oliveira & Gomes, 2018). The aim of Joana Topa
this work is not only to problematize ISMAI
the urgency of studying these realities CIEG-ISCSP-ULISBOA
in a more in-depth way, but also to list
the contributions that Multilateral Feminisms, and in particular the Theory of
Intersectionality, could bring as an analytical and methodological look to the
study on foreign female imprisonment.
Keywords: Foreign Women Prisoners,
Feminism, Intersectionality.
COIMBRA 2020
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PRISON AND MIGRATIONS
Ref.: 226M22020
MUSLIM FAITH DIVERSITY VERSUS MISCONCEPTIONS
OF PRISON INTERVENTION
Cláudia Resende
CICS.NOVA.FCSH
COIMBRA 2020
This presentation will address the
institutional denial that may be displayed within the prison context towards
Muslim faith diversity. This communication concerns an ethnographic approach
with male foreigner inmates in a Portuguese setting of Closed Regime. It will
be drawn attention to firsthand experiences and gatherings of prisoners who
share a Muslim creed from Guinea-Bissau and Morocco. The case study which
will be presented relies in an in loco
research where field notes have been
made throughout several wings and
where it was possible to make scanning
and photographs of personal objects
selected by the inmates themselves.
This empirical collection was the ground
for the in-depth interviews based on
the daily routines within prison doors
as well as life trajectories previous to
imprisonment. It will be demonstrated
that by sharing a Muslim belief that
leads to a collective sense of belonging and to a valorization of sensitive
aspects that sometimes are misunderstood by those who work within the
prison environment. It will be exhibited
that even though they identify themselves with transversal appointments
of Muslim culture and religion, that the
externalization of Muslim affiliation may
assume different representations and
practical meanings. Going hand in hand
with studies which have been made
prison indoors and outdoors, it has been
verified that the Muslim belongingness
may be lived in different experiences,
rhythms and perceptions. Albeit the
complexity and heterogeneity of Islam,
one is liable to find out ambiguous and
inaccurate ways of dealing with Muslim
inmates by internal and external institutional intervenient during the period
of a custodial sentence. One must bear
in mind that there are provisions which
are displayed in order to accomplish
the freedom religious principle, namely
towards the Muslim faith, such as the
dietary requirement or the authorization of entrance of objects with religious ends. However, once outlining the
Muslim presence behind bars, one can
easily come across with biased assumptions which may result in nuances of:
bureaucratic delays, stigma, mistrust,
suspicious of dangerousness and targeted discrimination. In that sense,
massive prejudices may be triggered
by prison staffs on a day-to-day basis
relied in the lack of acknowledgment
of Islam specificities, a certain degree
of ethnocentrism, social alarm or even
racial differentiation. Nowadays, those
who are deprived from freedom and
who claim to be Muslim are more susceptible to be perceived under the lens
of essentialism, added culpability, rigidity and extremism which may hamper
rehabilitation possibilities underpinned
with full dignity. If migrants may turn
to be the public “enemies” (Guia, 2018)
within European frame, those who have
a Muslim faith and who have to face
a judicial sentence within prison doors
are at the risk of particular hindrances
that neither prison system neither civil
society should be absent minded.
Keywords: Prison, Muslim Faith, Diversity,
Discrimination.
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HUMAN RIGHTS,
JUDICIALIZATION
OF LIFE, CRIMINAL
PROCEDURAL
GUARANTEES,
PUNITIVE POWER
AND RESTORATIVE
JUSTICE
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HUMAN RIGHTS, JUDICIALIZATION OF LIFE, CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL
GUARANTEES, PUNITIVE POWER AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
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EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONTROL OF THE CHAIN OF CUSTODY
OF THE EVIDENCE OF TELEPHONE INTERCEPTIONS
IN THE BRAZILIAN AND PORTUGUESE LEGAL SYSTEM
This paper will present that the lack
of epistemological control can causes a
break in the chain of custody and has
been a reason for nullifying evidences.
A chain of custody of telephone interceptions, which is a form of criminal
procedural guarantee and a form of
epistemological control of evidence
in criminal proceedings, so that it is
increasingly important, being strictly
applied to the legal process and basic
requirements, like the presumption of
innocence, contradictory and broad
defense, among others. In addition, a
chain of custody collaborates to search
for truth in the process, contributing to
a final decision in the process applied
in judicial conviction and not in belief
based on the judge’s imaginary. This
research was possible through the critical analysis of legal judgments in the
Portuguese and Brazilian legal system,
analyzed as the consequences of breaking the chain of custody in telephone
interceptions, which are increasingly
proliferating in criminal proceedings,
often compromising and causing the
illegal process. As a result, after the
analysis of jurisprudence, it was realized
that the theory of breaking the chain
of custody of the evidence is alleged
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when it is not available to defend or Raimundo de Albuquerque
franchise the entirety of the recording Gomes
or the audios of a telephone intercep- UNINABUCO
tion. The lack of epistemological control,
which causes a break in the chain of
custody, has been nullifying evidence,
or it generates costs for courts and time
lost in actions that do not comply with
legal requirements, such as when the
authorized employee loses the entire
evidence, through adulteration or contamination, regardless of whether there
is a lack of faith on the part of those
who use it, or which compromises all
of the test and the skills. In this sense,
the preservation of the chain of custody
or the legalization of evidence, and in
the case of telephone interceptions, the
suppression of dialogues or access to
the defense of all means of evidence
are considered sufficient for the nullity of the process, as it constitutes
illicit evidence. It was found, with this
research, that there is still, both Brazilian and Portuguese criminal proceedings, reimbursements and inquisitorial
stays that refer to “judicial conviction”,
or are committed as criminal procedural
guarantees and the legal process.
Keywords: Chain of Custody, Epistemological
Control, Evidences, Telephone Interceptions.
COIMBRA 2020
HUMAN RIGHTS, JUDICIALIZATION OF LIFE, CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL
GUARANTEES, PUNITIVE POWER AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
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PRISON EXPERIENCE ON SOCIAL REINTEGRATION:
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ADULT
AND YOUNG INMATE GROUPS
Ana Rita Ferreira Rodrigues
COIMBRA 2020
In Portugal, studies on social reintegration are scarce, and it is pertinent
to understand how prisoners perceive
both the prison context and the context
of post seclusion. In this sense, this dissertation investigated the perceptions
of prisoners on social reinsertion, taking into account their prison experience (primary or recidivist). In order to
analyze specificities and convergences
between inmates, with different ages,
compared to social reintegration, a qualitative methodology was used, based on
the content analysis of 22 interviews
conducted with inmates, male, primary
and recidivists, in different age groups
(young adults and adults) at Porto and
Lisbon prison establishments. In particular, (i) the life trajectories of primary
and repeat offenders were explored in
order to understand possible aspects
that may have influenced their (re)
involvement in crime; (ii) how the four
social groups in analysis perceive their
social reinsertion in a prison context
and (iii) how they perceive their social
reinsertion abroad. We conclude that in
the life trajectories of these individuals
that a very early school leaving, coexistence in environments conducive to
criminal acts, as well as the influence of
peers, both in school and in the housing
environments, had a great influence in
the beginning of the transgressive acts,
some in very young age. On this investigative mnemonic, the economic difficulties also appear as one of the greatest
signs, not only for the beginning of the
transgressive acts but also the propitiator of a new criminal involvement after
seclusion. Another of the highlights is
related to the monitoring of the prison
population by the technicians, which is
seen by this population as scarce and
that makes the prisoners feel little supported and thus do not see any kind of
preparation for reinsertion inside and
out of prison. Post-seclusion expectations are focused mainly on family and
work, but it is more difficult to find a
new job because they have a criminal
record based on an effective prison sentence and there are situations of discrimination, making it more difficult to
restart their lives.
Keywords: Prison, Social Reinsertion, Age,
Recidivism.
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THE PORTUGUESE PRISON SYSTEM AND PROTECTION
OF THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM:
A BISECTOR ANALYSIS BETWEEN PREVENTIVE
AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
In Portugal, the erosion of social fabric caused by domestic violence is intergenerationally present, complex and
unsettling. It’s estimated that, between
1991 and 2006, there were a total of
260,486 situations of domestic violence,
which corresponds to an average of 27
cases per day. Although in Portugal
domestic violence perpetrated by men
over women is most common, especially in a marital context, it’s extremely
difficult to set a standard of who is the
aggressor and who is the victim. It is
accepted thougth, that violence can be
imposed by anyone, regardless of origin, culture, religion, education, profession, etc. In the past few years several
legal changes have occurred in order to
reduce domestic violence crime and the
prison system (since its preventive type
to its condemnatory type) have been
tested such as a model that guarantees maximum protection and defense
to the violence domestic victim. Now,
it’s time to reflect about the recent creation by the Superior Council of Public
Prosecutors of Specialized Integrated
Sections of Domestic Violence (SEIVD),
composed of Criminal Action Centers
(NAP) and Family and Minors Centers
(NFC), as a model of preventive justice. This organizational prototype came
into force, although on an experimental
basis, only in the DIAP District Sections
of Lisbon and Oporto and is clearly distinct because it pretends to improve an
articulation between criminal authorities and family and minors public organizations since domestic violence occurs
in the family context and the victims
have been put into danger due to the
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disharmony between those jurisdictions. Emanuel Carvalho
The connection of this bi-jurisdictional UAL
harmonization with the prison of the
putative abuser must be the tested to
obtain the balance between the fundamental rights, freedoms and guarantees that belong to the accused,
and the full protection and maximum
judicial defense for domestic violence
victim, based also on the most elementary jus-constitutional principles. On
the other hand, the intention is to take
back the exam of mediation in criminal
cases, as the face of a called restorative
justice, which in the context of domestic
violence had in the “justice encounters”,
on the article 39th of the law about prevention of domestic violence, the protection and assistance to its victims, the
(best) paradigm of this model. Taking
into account this dichotomy, the aim
is to consider the opportunity to test a
kind of criminal justice system that, by
bringing together different models, in
this case the ethical-preventive and the
restorative, will be able to guarantee
effective protection for domestic violence victim, at the same time as allows
to the humanization of Criminal Law,
requiring assertiveness on punitive system application and, in particular, on
the imprisonment of the accused, considering the need to respond to social
anxiety due to several and tragical
domestic violence present situations,
otherwise we are giving way to a rudimentary repressive justice.
Keywords: Domestic Violence, Prison System,
Rights of The Victim, Preventive Justice,
Restorative Justice.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, JUDICIALIZATION OF LIFE, CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL
GUARANTEES, PUNITIVE POWER AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
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NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION FOR THE MANAGEMENT
OF CRIMINAL CONFLICTS
Cristiane de Souza Reis
Institute for Comparative Studies
in Conflict Management
COIMBRA 2020
Law no. 21/2007, of 12 June, inaugurates criminal mediation in Portugal,
following the guidelines provided for in
article 10 of Framework Decision no.
2002/220 / JHA, of the Council of the
European Union which aims that Member States to promote criminal mediation. In order for there to be criminal
mediation, some requirements are
required: the existence of a criminal
case; that the conduct classified as a
crime depends on a complaint or private accusation and that the facts have
presumably been committed against
people or against property, and provided that the abstract sentence is a
prison sentence of up to 5 years or a
fine; that it is not in fact classified as
a crime against freedom or against
sexual self-determination, in addition
to the fact that the victim is 16 years
old, inclusive, or older and that he is
not facing a special process. Finally,
crimes that are subject to mediation in
Portugal are offenses to simple physical integrity or negligence, the threat,
defamation, injury, violation of home or
disturbance of private life, theft, abuse
of trust, damage, the alteration of milestones, the scam, the scam to obtain
food, drinks or services and usury. As
in mediation there must be willingness
on the part of both parties to participate
in the process, both the accused and
the victim must request the opening of
the mediation process. However, this
is not the focus I intend to present. My
objective in this article is to present the
techniques of Non-Violent Communication, developed by Marshall Rosemberg,
as a possibility of a tool to be used in
the processes of criminal mediation, in
addition to allowing the extension of the
list provided for in the aforementioned
legislation, which brings a limitation as
to the possible criminal types, when,
in practice, Marshall himself acted and
managed criminal conflicts of infinitely
greater magnitude, including violent
crimes and historical disputes between
nations.
Keywords: Criminal Mediation, Non-violent
Communication, Human Rights.
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DEMOCRACY AND ITS DUE:
IS IT DEMOCRATIC PRISON?
The objective of this development is
to seek an answer related to the question of whether the prison is democratic
or not. The discussion of the topic must
begin with the very notion of democracy as a political regime. Because the
issue has deep roots and leads us to
important reflections, as there is no
mention of democracy, excluding the
birth of a new state, a constitution,
fundamental rights and human rights
themselves. Historical social evolution
allows us to understand that the path
of Democracy has been improving and
enriching human chronology and that
today they are basically translated into
fundamental human rights. Extracting
further, that the new community structure called Democratic State under the
presence of a political regime was supported in the speech of the jurist Abraham Lincoln (1863), that is, “democracy
is the government of the people, by
the people and for the people”. Consequently, the democratic state presupposes the delimitation of the exercise
of power, proclaiming and guaranteeing
basic individual and collective rights.
Thus, the Brazilian Constitution (article
1), the Constitution of the Portuguese
Republic (article 2) and the Social and
Democratic State of Law of the Spanish Constitution (article 1) welcomed
representative democracy, with states
governed by laws, with free and fair
elections and for the people, as well
as the respect of public authorities for
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fundamental rights and guarantees. In Márcia Aparecida Clemente
Brazil, the statistical data for December FDUNL/FCT
2019 detect the diagnosis of the reality of the prison system, totaling more
than seven hundred and fifty-five thousand people deprived of their liberty (all
regimes) and a deficit above four hundred and forty-two thousand vacancies,
demonstrating the overcrowding of Brazilian prisons and the subtraction of the
dignity of detainees. Thus, the rational
development of democracy requires
emergency attention to the idea of new
models of convictions and prisons, since
the understanding of current standards
frequently used contemplates the frivolity of evil in relation to the diversity
of genders in the prison system. In this
sense, the article will address the hostile presence of prison settlements and
a possible state of affairs unconstitutional.
Keywords: Democracy, Prison Overcrowding,
Unconstitutional State of Affairs.
COIMBRA 2020
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
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THE PROTECTION OF VICTIM’S HUMAN RIGHTS
THROUGH RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND THE CHALLENGES
FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW PARADIGM
Linara da Silva,
UC/UPF
Gabriela Werner Oliveira
UPF
& Monique Sacramento
UC
COIMBRA 2020
During the period of primitive justice,
the victim appeared as the protagonist
in the criminal repression procedure.
Gradually, the victim had its role neutralized and the contemporary justice
system was designed to address only
the perpetrator of the offense. The
concern to develop scientific studies
focused on the victims began to be
glimpsed in the late 1940s, due to the
atrocities committed during the Second
World War. Along with the universalization and internationalization of human
rights, the specific rights of victims were
recognized in international and supranational documents. Although many
states have modified its internal legislation to ensure recognition of victims
and protection of their interests, there
are no changes in the procedural structure that continues to view crime as a
matter to be dealt with by the State,
maintaining the bilateral configuration
of criminal procedure -defendant and
Public Justice. Thereby, the victim is
instrumentalized, resulting in its objectification and the violation of its fundamental human rights, such as dignity,
freedom and equality. The expansion of
the possibility of consensual responses
to the practice of crime implies a redefinition of the victims’ role in the criminal procedure, especially regarding
the new perspective granted to their
needs. Instead of the exclusively punitive response imposed by the State, the
inclusion of the victim in the procedural
triad is a way to achieve its humanization. In this sense, Restorative Justice
emerges as an instrument of interlocution between the State and society,
not only broadening the right of access
to justice, but also recognizing and
strengthening the victim’s role before
the justice system. Therefore, the resistance of professionals working in the
legal area constitutes the biggest obstacle for Restorative Justice to be consolidated in the most diverse legal systems.
Overcoming this reactionary paradigm
involves transforming the legal professions through a process of multidisciplinary academic training capable of
involving a systemic approach of the
conflict and, thus, transcending the
strictly dogmatic, technical and positivist model of law to allow that, in addition
to the public dimension of crime, justice
can also account for its interpersonal
dimension. Therefore, based on the
deductive approach method, in which
the discursive extraction of knowledge
is carried out through general premises
applicable to concrete hypotheses, this
essay seeks to analyze how the victim’s
needs and the damages arising from
crime are considered from the perspective of fundamental human rights
while presenting mechanisms capable
of rethinking the criminal justice system beyond its public dimension and
its strictly punitive bias. In this manner,
it addresses the challenges and possibilities for Restorative Justice to be
consolidated as a mechanism capable of
guaranteeing the humanization of the
criminal process from the perspective
of the victim.
Keywords: Criminal Justice System,
Human Rights, Restorative Justice, Victim.
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DNA AS “READY-MADE” EVIDENCE
– AN ANALYSIS THROUGH PORTUGUESE JUDGES’ EYES
The introduction of biological evidence in inquisitorial justice systems
raises particular modes of entanglement between professional cultures and
perceptions of the probative value of
evidence. In an apparent neutral construct, biological evidence challenges
the perceived margins of critical assessment of the work and understandings
of previous links in the chain of custody,
like the criminal police, forensic experts,
and the public prosecution services.
While each piece of forensic evidence
is the product of the work carried out
by different epistemologies, it falls to
the judge, as the ‘expert of experts’,
to consider all the evidence which is
collected at the crime scene and conveyed to the courtroom. In that process,
the court emerges as an ‘accumulation
center’ where all the evidence and the
work of the varied epistemic cultures
converge. It is up to the judge to gather
all this conglomerated information and
attempt to fit together the pieces of the
puzzle that have been brought to court.
This presentation aims to look at DNA
technology through the eyes of Portuguese judges in order to understand
the social representations surrounding
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biological evidence held by those who Susana Costa
have judicial decision-making power. It CES
is important to assess its value as an ISMAI
aid to justice and how using it in court
contributes to the delivery of justice in
Portugal. The main question this study
aims to answer is: How Portuguese
judges’ value biological evidence? Fourteen semi-structured interviews were
carried out with Portuguese judges in
2017 (three with judges of the Supreme
Court of Justice and eleven with trial
court judges). In this presentation the
main results and narratives produced by
judges will be presented. It is argued
that there is a cultural rift between the
worlds of science and law that leads
to biological evidence being treated
as ‘ready-made’ when it arrives in the
courtroom, thus placing limits on the
judge’s role in its appraisal.
Keywords: Epistemic Cultures, Judges,
Biological Evidence, Ready-Made Evidence,
Cultural Rift.
COIMBRA 2020
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GUARANTEES, PUNITIVE POWER AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
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EXPLORATORY DIMENSIONS AROUND THE HUMAN RIGHTS
OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE JURISDICTION
OF THE PRISON SYSTEM IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZIL
Walmir Pereira
UNISINOS/COGIPIT
COIMBRA 2020
In Brazil of this 21st century the process of criminalization of the concerning
indigenous ethnic, cultural and political, as well as the growing expansion
and criminal and criminal implication
of these people and communities is an
emerging theme that acquires academic
and societal resonance. The theme
appears disappointing on the agenda
of social sciences and humanities, especially for the traditional areas of Human
Rights, Legal Anthropology and Indigenous Ethnology, among others that
make up the national and international
scientific field. The method used: In
this context, based on documentary
research in the specialized bibliography
and in the available public databases
and information processed in academic
texts and indigenous human rights
movements, we opted for an analytical
approach to the theme, a qualitative
nature, concerned with the presentation of emblematic cases, capable to
evidence empirical difficulties and policies of access to criminal and criminal justice by people, collectives and
indigenous peoples. Discussion: Historically, although from the formal legal
point of view, brazilian positive law was
indifferent to the worldviews and the
subjects belonging to the Amerindian
peoples and collectivities, in practice it
developed among us, from the colonial
era to the presentism of their publican
era, the nicknamed indigenist right
pointed out by Marés (2009). Despite
the theme of constituting constitutional
jurisprudence, including the existence
of legal instruments and unequivocal
mediation devices that confer on peoples and indigenous collectivities prerogatives as subjects of specific rights,
lacks effectiveness and normativity in
the field of public human rights policies.
Conclusion: It emerges as imperative
that in legal proceedings involving criminal justice, legal operators and specialists in the areas of social sciences
and human rights, both in the academic
and institutional spheres of the formulation of public policies, consider the
asymmetric structure existing in social
practices and penalties of hegemonic
justice, within the scope of the executive and judicial powers of the country,
against the referents and indigenous
people and the deliberate unfeasibility
of the application of national and international codes, norms foreseen in Conventions, Laws and Decrees. In view of
the low effectiveness of the institutionalization of good practices and effective methodologies in the treatment of
issues surrounding access to justice by
indigenous peoples and people, especially in actions and processes derived
from criminal justice, it ́s necessary
to consider the shortage of investigations and systematic reflections on the
presence of indigenous people in the
Brazilian prison system and the exponential increase in the criminalization
processes of indigenous referents and
the collectives themselves, thus requiring monitoring of external and internal
actors.
Keywords: Indigenous Rights, Human Rights,
Prison System, Criminal Justice.
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GENDERS ENTRAPPED. AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON TRANSGENDER
INMATES IN ITALY
The paper presents the findings of a
research on the conditions of transgender people’s detention in Italy. In Italy,
transgender inmates are present in 8
prisons (Napoli, Roma, Firenze, Belluno,
Rimini, Alba, Milano e Bollate) who have
set up specific “protected” sections
for this type of prisoners. These sections are located inside male prisons,
with the exception of Firenze, where
the transgender prisoners are placed
inside the female area. Our research
involved a first quantitative phase, in
which some data were collected relating to transgender prisoners in Italian
prisons in collaboration with the Department of Penitentiary Administration of
the Ministry of Justice. Once collected
the background data at national level,
the research wanted to deepen, with
the use of qualitative methodologies
(semi-structured interviews with transgender prisoners and prison staff), the
situation in two prisons, respectively in
the north and southern Italy: that of
Belluno (Baldenich) and that of Naples
(Poggioreale). The presence of transgender detainees in prison forced the
institution to redefine the boundaries
of the binary system of sex differentiation that has always characterized
the internal prison’s organization. The
institution’s reaction is constituted by a
process of differentiation and isolation,
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apparently aimed at protecting the dif- Claudia Mantovan
ferences expressed by the transgender University of Padová
prisoners, but actually informed mainly & Caterina Peroni
by the managerial dimensions of secu- CNR
rity and internal order. The continuum
of violence to which transgender prisoners are already subjected outside the
penitentiary –as documented by critical
criminology, queer, transfeminist and
intersectional studies -intensifies inside
the prison, where they end up suffering
the consequences of a system based on
the exaltation of sexual binary identities, the segregation of sexes and the
concealment of the sexual sphere of
prisoners. In such an apparently quite
rigid context, however, the incongruity
between sex and gender seems to lend
itself to opening up cleavage in the penitentiary’s (heterosexual) system: this
is all the more true since the gender of
transgender people, far from being a
mere descriptive attribute, becomes a
concept that immediately expresses a
power of agency and self-determination
that is not (and cannot be) foreseen by
the restrictive regime, and is capable of
questioning the heterosexual norm by
highlighting its contradictions.
Keywords: Transgender Inmates, Prison
Organization, Heterosexual Norm,Transfeminist
Studies, Intersectionality.
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BETWEEN TODAY AND TOMORROW:
“IDEAS ON THE RUN” IN A PIONEER EXPERIMENT
OF PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN THE ITALIAN PRISON
OF BOLLATE
Giorgio Pittella
BiPart
& Giovanni Allegretti
CES/UC
COIMBRA 2020
The paper reflects on the results of
the first year of a pioneer experiment
of participatory budgeting (PB) in the
detention center of Milan -Bollate, supported by an external fundraising path
to funding some proposals elaborated
by prisoners. Named by detainees
“Ideas on the run”, and coordinated
by BiPart social enterprise, the experimental project has been structured
into phases aimed at collecting and
progressively refining ideas of interventions and projects made by the prisoners for their benefit, while intensifying
the relationship between them and the
prison administration, and consolidating a dialogue with citizens, social organizations and companies outside. The
democratic practice –monitored by the
Centre for Social Studies of Coimbra
University, through surveys and participatory observation –wants to increase
the respect for detainees’ self-organizational and self-determination capacity
in elaborating proposals of high-quality,
that could favour a major convergence
of future external funding and support
actions which are felt as more meaningful by the convicted community. In particular, our focus refers to the analysis
and clustering of the projects emerged
from the deliberative phase of the process involving the detainees, and the
first phase of “appreciation and support” to those ideas by the community
of around 1000 male and 200 female
inmates. Due to the unbalances existing
among male and female sections of Bollate detention center, the project built
two parallel participatory processes
separated by gender, considering that
the female community is smaller and
located in buildings far from main facilities (working structures, services and
the open area for contacts with families).
Therefore, budget independence was
assured to women’s proposals. Despite
the complex rules of the prison, a series
of inter-ward assemblies were made
possible thanks to an agreement with
the administration, to compensate the
usual impossibility of different groups
of detainees to communicate with each
other and make a community-wide single PB process possible. Our analysis
occurs after an intermediate voting
phase for ranking proposals to access
the next level of the participatory process, devoted to the detailed planning
of ideas to be crowdfunded. We analyse
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IN THE ITALIAN PRISON OF BOLLATE
58 proposals (47 from men’s wards and
11 coming from women’s wards) which
emerged during a series of facilitated
ward-assemblies and were discussed
among some representatives of detainees in inter-ward arenas. We propose
three clusters referred to ideas that aim
(1) to improve facilities and services
inside the prison (so with a dimension of
“improving the today life of detainees”
inside); 2) to propose new (or enhance
the quality of existing) programmes
and training courses that bridge with
a vision of the “tomorrow outside the
prison”(which is also the present condition of the so-called “article 21” –the
detainees allowed to work outside the
prison); 3) to imagine transformations
in the governance or regulations of the
prisons, and eventually in the broader
legal frameworks. While pointing out the
visible difference between the types of
proposals emerged in male and female
wards (and more strongly supported in
each one), we remark the role played
by the disparity of physical conditions
between the two.
Giorgio Pittella
BiPart
& Giovanni Allegretti
CES/UC
Keywords: Participatory Budgeting,
Civic Crowdfunding, Bollate Prisons,
Democratic Innovation.
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PENAL INSTITUTIONS AS ANTICIPATORY SPACES
Carolina E. De La Torre
Ugarte
Graduate Institute of International
and Development Studies of Geneva
COIMBRA 2020
Penal institutions engage in two
basic modes of action: custody and
care; they — unlike punishment or
rehabilitation — are often regulated by
national and international standards.
Approaching institutional action in its
most essential form gives rise to an
important overlooked process: anticipation. Anticipation as an affective
and temporal process involves (not)
taking action in the present to avoid
or produce a given future. Though not
always explicitly stated as anticipation, future-oriented action is prevalent in penal policy. Discerning which
futures to act on and how oscillates
between predictable probabilities and
uncertain hopeful or fearful possibilities. By considering carceral institutions
as anticipatory spaces, we can engage
in questions of how penal institutions—
including private and nonprofit partners—anticipate carceral futures, how
care and custody affect institutional
engagement in possibilistic and probabilistic thinking, and what subjectivities
of detained persons are produced by
institutions’ anticipatory actions. Conducted in Geneva, Switzerland over a
two-month period, this research consisted of a nonlocal ethnography—an
approach predicated on absence from
physical spaces and interactions—using
documents as object and method.
Analyzing discourse in both institutional publications and complementary
writings—e.g. news articles, reports
from human rights bodies—provided a
comprehensive sample of institutional
action. In addition, I recycled the coding
process into a technique of experimental writing, arranging excerpts gathered
from policies into mono-and dialogues.
The exercise demonstrates the messy
tensions governing institutional anticipatory action and situates policy into
conversation with the subjectivities
institutions produce. Findings suggest
that penal institutions engage in probabilistic and possibilistic thinking within
the confines of acceptable thresholds of
custody and care. Perceptions of ideal
integration—employable, authorized
immigration status—limit the range of
possible futures. Additionally, nonpenal
partners expand institutional imaginaries of possibility and probability. Methodologically, the data collected does not
reflect lived realities inside institutions.
Its advantages lie in bypassing the
physical, social, and bureaucratic barriers erected by closed institutions and
diminishing reliance on interlocutors for
data, alleviating stresses reported by
some (formerly) incarcerated communities during participation. This combination does not aim to replace participant
observation or local input but to complement their contributions. Nonlocal
ethnography of penal policy provides a
map to carceral institutions’ anticipatory logics and values. With it, we can
better understand the extent to which
institutions embrace their obligations of
custody and care. Furthermore, it highlights the points of possible intervention
for reform and abolition.
Keywords: Carceral Futures, Anticipation,
Nonlocal Ethnography, Penal Policy,
Experimental Writing.
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CONTRADICTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL JUDICIARY
COOPERATION INSTRUMENTS:
THE CASE OF THE EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT,
ITS PITFALLS AND SOLUTIONS
The desire to create a seamless open
circulation area in the European Union,
marked by freedom, security and justice implies the development of targeted strategies, which address the
internal-external security nexus and its
repercussions. This is especially true in
the area of Justice and Home Affairs,
regulated at EU-level, thus opening
the way for the conceptualization and
establishment of transnational, EU-wide
instruments and mechanisms aimed at
facilitating judicial exchanges amongst
Member States. Integrated into a dialectic logic deriving from the willingness
to establish a regional regime of Human
Rights, under threat of an ever-increasing blur between spheres of security,
instruments such as the European
Arrest Warrant(EAW)are fundamentally governed by (and directed at the
protection of cornerstone Human Rights
principles, characteristic of a normative
and Human Security oriented European Union. Notwithstanding its formal
flexibilization objectives, Framework
Decision 2002/584 still faces severe
obstacles to a full and fluid application, linked to pervasive difficulties in
the harmonization and integration of
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judicial and legal systems in EU Mem- Joana Apóstolo,
ber States. A theoretically apolitical Innovative Prison Systems
mechanism quickly becomes politically Torben Adams
charged and instrumentalized in inter- Innovative Prison Systems
governmental confrontation. Against & Rhianon Williams
these complex exchanges between Bremen Senate of Justice
and Constitution
national authorities, EU-led initiatives in
the area of criminal judicial cooperation
are often at the origin of a number of
human rights violations, derived from
their ineffective operation alistation.
With reference to EAW, this is true of
conditions of detention. This scenario
illustrates the maladjustment of purely
structural solutions to multi-tiered challenges and sheds additional light on the
inherent paradoxes to judicial cooperation within a supranational system of
Human Rights protection. This paper
outlines a pragmatic approach whereby
stronger investment allows targeted
judges and magistrates to meet, undertake capacity building, build mutual
trust and have direct experience of one
another’s prison conditions, thereby
addressing three known barriers to
EAW implementation. Direct dialogue
and an agenda based on real case studies actively contribute to closer transnational interactions between national
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Ref.: 150M22020
CONTRADICTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL JUDICIARY COOPERATION INSTRUMENTS:
THE CASE OF THE EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT, ITS PITFALLS AND SOLUTIONS
Joana Apóstolo,
Innovative Prison Systems
Torben Adams
Innovative Prison Systems
& Rhianon Williams
Bremen Senate of Justice
and Constitution
actors, some of whom are formal contact points. As the discussion widens,
so additional actors bring the professional perspectives of lawyers, prison
governors and the academic community, simultaneously allowing this initial
investment to benefit a second tier of
actors. The result is a professional network of diverse actors, well-informed of
each other’s judicial systems and able
to work together more effectively to
implement this framework. The authors
propose that this layered approach to
known implementation barriers shows
sustained positive results and illustrates
how the focus of the network can grow
to include the uptake of wider, interconnected EU-led initiatives. Thus, the goal
of this paper is to draw attention to the
implications for a regional Human Rights
system of the unintended and paradoxical consequences of a poor application
of structural solutions, whilst illustrating
alternative methods and ongoing initiatives aiming to overcome known issues
and thus achieve ade facto Union to
protect Human Rights.
Keywords: European Union, European Arrest
Warrant, Human Rights, Detention Conditions,
Capacity-building.
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Ref.: 090M12020
AN ATTENUATED PRISON FOR MOTHERS AND CHILDREN?
A VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH IN A SPECIAL PRISON
FOR CHILDREN
According to the European laws, an
incarcerated mother with young children can choose to keep them with
her, in jail. These laws are meant to
protect the mother-child bond also in
prison. Regulations about living conditions and age of children change
depending on each European country.
Italy has recently built a few ‘ICAM
-special attenuated custody institutes’,
designed for mothers and their children
between the ages of 0 and 6. In some
special cases, this range can extend up
to the age of 10. Children have therefore an age that allows them to fully
understand the place where they live.
Following the question: ‘Is prison a
democratic space?’ the purpose of this
paper is to present a visual ethnography conducted in a special institute for
mother and children inside the prison
of Turin, in Italy. The principal aim of
the visual ethnography is to understand the meaning of incarceration for
mothers, and mostly for children. What
sounds does a child listen to in a jail,
what smells can he detect? What is the
sense of space in a confined room? And,
most importantly: do they understand
that they live in prison and do they
have dreams of evasion? The second
aim of this practice-based research is
to explore the potentialities of visual
media and art in order to discover and
also to represent the point of view of
children. The overall intent is to use
photography, video camera, VR 360°
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shooting and animation to produce a Rossella Schillaci
multimedia ethnography about the NOVA – University of Lisbon
topic. In this paper, I present the first University of Turin Department of Law
part of the project and the method used
with photography, as a medium to collect data about the prison space and
the everyday life inside. My stance is
that visual media and emerging technologies might help in the research
in such a sensitive context as the jail.
The multidisciplinary and experimental approach might create new forms
of languages and experiences, trying
to overcome some limits of traditional
observation in visual anthropology. The
in-depth “experiential” work with children employs participatory creative
practices adapted to the prison system, in order to explore how images
can work in a panopticon institution,
where inmates are constantly watched
by surveillance cameras, and how can
explore the imaginary world of children,
through the use of animation. The paper
will arise some critical reflections about
how to stimulate the participation of
children in research and how to better
represent their point of view about the
ICAM –this new prison which pretends
to be more ‘child-friendly’ but it caused
severe consequences in the everyday
life of children and their perspective
about their possible future.
Keywords: Children, Motherhood,
Visual Anthropology, Children Prison,
Visual Methods.
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GUARANTEES, PUNITIVE POWER AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 132M12020
PAVING THE WAY TO A 21ST CENTURY INMATES’ REHABILITATION
Nuno Pombo,
University of Beira Interior
Alexandra Gomes,
Innovative Prison Systems
Tiago Leitão
Innovative Prison Systems
& Rita Martins
Innovative Prison Systems
COIMBRA 2020
Providing inmates with education and
moreover with vocational training is considered an effective strategy to break
the crime and recidivism cycle, preventing not only the criminal behaviour,
but also giving them the capacity to
earn (and adopt) a crime-free lifestyle.
Often, recidivism is related with the difficulty in re-entering into society, and
social, personal, and social constraints
tend to contribute to that crime-free
lifestyle. Therefore, vocational training
provided to inmates must tackle critical
constraints to their successful rehabilitation and reintegration. Constraints
are not static and evolve with society,
being one of most recent the hyperconnected digital society, where we are
surrounded by IT devices and by software, in which not having basic knowledge or access to constant updates in
this area is a major challenge. This is
particularly the case when considering
the prison context or impoverished people as inmates often are. In fact, many
inmates are released into society without having the digital skills they need
in order to interact with modern public
services, access basic services (education, health, banking, housing, etc...),
or secure employment. Therefore, it is
important that inmates are given the
opportunity to develop ICT skills while
serving their sentences, which encompass not only basic skills of daily use,
but also skills that can be, in itself, a
working tool, such as coding. We will
present and explore some findings
retrieved from the need’s assessment
carried out in the CodingOut project,
focus on understanding what are the
key domains of intervention and to be
addressed in the training modules targeting inmates. The training aims not
only to narrow the gap between the
lack of skilled citizenship after release
but will also increase the chances of
inmates’ find and retain qualified jobs,
in one of the most sought-after professions of the 21st century.
Keywords: Prison, Coding/Programming,
Recidivism, Reintegration, Prison Education.
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THE PERFORMANCE OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUSTICE
IN THE BRAZILIAN PRISON SYSTEM TO MINIMIZE THE IMPACTS
OF CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019
The present scientific work seeks
to analyze the posture of the National
Council of Justice, with the objective of
minimizing the impacts generated by
the pandemic caused by the Coronavirus 2019 in the Brazilian prison system and protecting the Human Rights of
persons deprived of their liberty, using
the bibliographic methodology, with
examination doctrine and jurisprudence.
The public declaration of the pandemic
situation issued by the World Health
Organization, on March 11, 2020, had
profound global impacts, affecting several areas of law, generating an unprecedented health crisis in the 21st century,
leading authorities to adopt social isolation to prevent the spread of the disease. Thus, the research is justified by
the need to understand the problem
in the Brazilian prison environment, in
which prisoners live in confinement and
agglomeration spaces, mainly in view of
the unhealthy conditions of the prison
units, characteristics of the unconstitutional state of affairs of the Brazilian
prison system recognized by the ADPF
Supreme Court No. 347, facts related
to the substantial rate of transmissibility of the virus. In this scenario, given
the specificities of the context in which
incarcerated people live and to reduce
the epidemiological risks of virus transmission to protect the health of persons
deprived of liberty, public agents and
visitors, the administrative body of the
Judiciary issued on 3/17/2020 , Recommendation 62/2020, which establishes
guidelines for judges and courts to take
preventive measures, to minimize the
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spread of COVID-19in the criminal and Nivea Corcino Locatelli
socio-educational justice system, with Braga
the encouragement of reviewing the UNESA
arrests of people in risk groups and at
the end sentence, provided that they
have not committed violent or serious
crimes and do not belong to criminal
organizations. The Recommendation
was amended by Recommendation No.
68, of June 17, 2020, which, among
other measures, determines the expert
examination in the face of evidence
of torture or other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment, extending the
validity of said recommendation for 90
days. It turns out that the CNJ guidelines are not being effectively applied
by magistrates, since, according to
data released by the CNJ, there was
an increase of 800% in the rates of
contamination in Brazilian prisons since
May, reaching more than 2,200 cases in
June. According to these data, 32,500
people were removed from prison units
in the three months due to compliance
with Recommendation 62/2020, with
adaptation to house arrest or electronic
monitoring, which represents 4.8% of
the total number of people deprived of
liberty. As a partial conclusion, it was
found that the CNJ has been taking
measures so that the bodies that make
up the Brazilian Judiciary can adhere
to the established guidelines, however
the adhesion is occurring in a timid way,
verified by the numbers presented by
the CNJ.
Keywords: Performance, National Council
of Justice, Prison System, Impacts, Coronavirus
Disease 2019.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 097M22020
CUSTODY AUDIENCE AND PRISONS IN RIO DE JANEIRO
Marcelo da Silveira Campos
UFGD
UFF/INCT-InEAC
COIMBRA 2020
In the 1990s, in Brazil, it was common for the distinction between the
dealer and the user to be based on
the articles of the old drug law, that
is, on criminalizing someone for drugs
through articles “16” or “12”. It was the
actual article numbers of the laws that
represented socially and distinguished
a user (16) from a drug dealer (12)
and, of course, how the police could
or could not incriminate anyone within
the criminal justice system in Brazil.
After 2006, the Brazilian State enacted
the so-called New Drug Law in order to
move the drug user to the health system while increasing the punishment
for traffickers. This new device is part
of the phenomenon of intensification
of incarceration in Brazil, especially
the increase in criminalization for drug
trade today in 30% of the entire prison
population in the country. Such a finding, that there was no displacement of
users to the public health system and
that this is one of the explanatory factors for the intensification of criminalization by drugs today was carried out
for the city of São Paulo, in my doctoral
thesis at USP Therefore, this research
now presents drug criminalization in the
city of Rio de Janeiro with ethnography
carried out in custody hearings with
operators and accused of the criminal
justice system in Rio de Janeiro inside
the Benfica prison, in the city of Rio de
Janeiro.
Keywords: Audiences, Prisons, Rio de Janeiro,
Drugs, Justice.
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PRISON:
AN INCUBATION FOR RADICAL BEHAVIOR
Radicalization is increasingly associated with critical security issues. It is
one of the key points for the understanding of these same phenomena,
and of terrorism in particular. It is
defined as a complex process through
which groups or individuals undergo
a psychological transformation that
leads them to move away from traditions, supporting extreme political,
social and religious ideologies. Nevertheless, this definition is not consensual,
as any related to such a volatile topic
as human behavior. In the absence of
a common definition of radicalization,
this is dependent on the judgment and
counterargument presented in opposition to the terrorist groups. These
understanding results primarily from
the reality existing in a particular area
and time period, as well as from the
nature of the threat and the perception of the other as being the enemy.
The concept of radicalization is often
understood as a process of developing extremist ideologies, and, to some
extent, it is used to denote a major precursor to terrorism. Nonetheless, there
are some differences between radicalization and extremism that should be
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addressed and connected. Radicaliza- Catarina Gonçalves
tion can be thought of as the process FCSH-UNL
of socialization to extremism which can IPRI
be manifested in terrorism, and where
extremism implies an active subversion
of democratic values and the rule of law.
Therefore It is critical to understand how
individuals perceived as outside the
norm and how this labeling can cause
this same pattern deviation. Prison is
considered one of the incubators for the
radicalization of individuals that access
subversive agendas as an alternative
pathway. This construction of personality and behavioral modification should
be conceived and analyzed within the
different socialization instances of the
individual. Being said we propose an
interpretation of the prison environment as a catalyst for the enhanced
heterogeneity of individual characteristics that gather around a common goal,
the disruption of the established order,
creating a further alienation from state
representation.
Keywords: Prison, Radicalization,
Human Behavior.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER AND PRISON CULTURE
Ref.: 141M12020
FROM PRIVATE TO PUBLIC:
SOCIAL MOTHERS, OVERLAPPING VIOLENCE
AND ACCESSIBILITY TO JUSTICE AND CITIZENSHIP
IN BRAZIL
Vanessa Ribeiro Cavalcanti
Federal University of Bahia
& Antonio Carlos da Silva
Catholic University of Salvador
COIMBRA 2020
In the Present Time, the Brazilian
justice system has recorded numbers
of cases of “violence over gambling”
(Cavalcanti, 2018), especially to black
youth. This stems from a necro politics
and non-accessibility to justice, adding
greater vulnerabilities in urban contexts, intersectionality (class, territories, race/color) and categories related
to family and gender. The purpose of
this communication is to analyze the
discourses and processes of “social
mothers”, women who claim -through
social movements and efforts to promote investigations and the right to the
right -citizenship and justice. Always
making their voices, occupying spaces,
taking and making them aware. Critical
theory and feminists’ epistemologies to
changes attributed to roles, representations and actions of motherhood and
family relationships in a very different
way from the first waves. It is common
to attribute to the family, and especially
to the female figure, the responsibility
for the trajectories, the protection and
the ethics when caring for children, the
same with advances regarding the division of time, attention and monitoring.
However, in the Brazilian case, moth-
erhood is configured in other dimensions and references: from victims of
torture to murders by the police, strong
presence of violence. Therefore, in the
scenario of intensification of violence,
using a qualitative methodology and the
use of collected samples, it is possible
to analyze methods of value or binomial
family-maternity (in some cases of the
social mother-grandmother). Mothers
of “bandits”, missing, dead persons or
the violent take up spaces in the mass
media and political actions in favor of
justice and accessibility in Brazil. Rio de
Janeiro, Salvador, São Paulo and Vitória
are locus of research. Results can be
used as lengthy lawsuits, silencing witnesses, individualizing cases (despite
the collective character), creating civic
and social networks and movements to
guarantee rights and mourning.
Keywords: Human Rights, Justice, Mothers,
Violence, Maternity.
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MISINFORMATION AND CONFLICTING ACTIONS
OF BRAZILIAN PRISON POLICY IN FUNCTION OF THE PANDEMIC
This article aims to highlight the conflicting actions of the Brazilian prison
policy regarding the global pandemic
situation that generates misinformation
and promotes invisibility of yet another
aggression due to contagion suffered by
the prisoners’ population. This whole
scene contributes to persistent violations of human rights and the dignity of
the human person, especially in prisons
that are marked by complete unhealthiness and exacerbated overcrowding.
The methodology used starts from the
doctrinal and legal analysis, in addition to examining the clash between
decisions of the State organs: in the
Judiciary, the National Council of Justice
and the Public Ministry; in the Executive Power, the Ministry of Justice in
opposition to the recommendations of
the Federal Senate and State Governments, as well as institutions directly
involved in the execution of prison policy, notably with regard to the release
of prisoners to avoid contagion, including prison officers, finding resistance
in entities such as the Federal Council
and Regional Councils of Medicine. In
this sense, as an object of research,
this article seeks to address protective
measures employed to prisoners held
in prison and to professionals in the
prison system such as testing, isolation
of prisoners who belong to risk groups
and suspension of visits, to avoid the
danger of contagion that could cause
rebellions in detention facilities. As a
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partial result, it seeks to show that
contagion by the virus has uncovered,
even more intensely, the terrible conditions to which the Brazilian prison
population is subjected, exposing the
inefficiency of the various State institutions and of society as a whole, to
adequately confront this terrible social
malaise, structural and historical, of the
prison system. Finally, we highlight the
corrupt actions of Law operators, by
providing false certificates to promote
the release of uncontaminated prisoners, in addition to the alarming statistical data of the increase in homicides
caused by released prisoners, or even
with regime change for house arrest, as
well as the fact that they themselves
become victims of murders, due to
disputes between organized groups of
the criminal underworld, notably among
those involved in drug trafficking, for
the control of distribution points, which
it demonstrates that they remained
protected in prison by the State from
this insidious form of combat that has
been waged in the general context of
our society.
Jacques Fernando
Ackerman,
State Military Brigade of Rio Grande
do Sul
Claudine Freire
Rodembusch
Estacio Faculty of Rio Grande do Sul
& Henrique Alexander
Keske
University of Rittler dos Reis – Porto
Alegre
Keywords: Brazilian Prison Policy, Pandemic,
Conflicts of State Institutions, Misinformation,
Aggressions against Human Rights.
COIMBRA 2020
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THE ORIGIN OF PRISON SYSTEMS
Alberto Pintado Alcázar
University of Murcia
COIMBRA 2020
From a criminological point of view,
the study of prison system is vital to try
to understand the characteristics that
identify the evolution of prisons, both at
European and international level, with
special emphasis on what happened in
Spain. Therefore, this research focuses
on the study of the several prison systems, which serve as a reference to
identify the key elements of prison
procedures throughout history. On the
other hand, this study will carry out a
detailed analysis of different researchers who focused their research on the
evolution of prison systems. In this
sense, it is worth noting the work carried out by Bentham, Howard or Beccaria, who consider themselves to be
the great revolutionaries of the prison
systems. In this sense, John Howard
was the author of the important book
“The State of England and Wales Prisons”, which was considered an essential book for the study of the prisons of
the United Kingdom. On the other hand,
Cesare Beccaria wrote the book “On
Crimes and Punishments”, which is an
essential work from a criminological and
legal point of view. Finally, Jeremy Bentham established the panoptic system,
a great evolution that continues to be
the subject of several scientific investigations. In reference to prison systems, this paper will analyze those that
have been important throughout history,
with special emphasis on the cellular
or philadelphic system, the Auburnian
system, the reform system and, finally,
the progressive system, which can be
identified as a clear antecedent of the
systems that prevail today in prisons.
In this sense, in Spain, for example,
after living with several penitentiary
systems, today the system of scientific
individualization is in force, which can
be considered as a great evolution and
improvement with respect to those previously mentioned. Obviously, we still
do not know what the next actions will
be to continue improving the lives of
the inmates inside the prison.
Keywords: Prison, Systems, Criminology.
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CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF THE DEPRIVATION
OF LIBERTY:
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, GOALS OF PENALTIES
AND PROCEDURAL GUARANTEES
In the old days, punishing meant
public revenge, namely through death
in a public square and provocation of
physical damage, in a logic of an eye
for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. However, that has changed with the humanist movements, which have forced to
treat the convicted with dignity. The
deprivation of liberty is the most serious sanction, which, however, must
respect the human dignity and the right
to personal integrity. Death penalty is
constitutionally prohibited under portuguese law, as well as penalties with
a perpetual character or of unlimited
or indefinite duration. An essentially
expository/descriptive method, with
qualitative content, composed of legislative and doctrinal analysis. Discussion
of results: With regard to the purposes
of penalties: for absolute theories,
punishment is conceived as an absolute, metaphysical and ethical requirement, secondary to the pure demand
for justice; for retribution theories, the
demand for punishment in accordance
with justice translates into the conception of the penalty as a punishment,
so that the evil of crime is answered
with the evil of penalty, as a way to
repair the evil committed; for relative
theories, the legitimacy of the penalty
depends on its need and effectiveness
to prevent the practice of crimes, so the
penalty is not justified by itself, but it
has a relative and circumstantial purpose, a utility, which is translated in
the circumstance of functioning as an
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obstacle to the practice of new crimes; Patrícia Anjos Azevedo
the theory of special prevention aims ESTG/P. Porto
to dissuade the convict from the practice of new crimes; for the theory of
general prevention, the penalty serves
as an example, in order to intimidate
potential criminals. Articles 20 and 32 of
the Constitution, respectively, provide
defense guarantees, such as access to
the law and effective judicial protection
and, specifically, guarantees of criminal prosecution. In addition, the Penal
Code regulates several guarantees of
the convicted. Nowadays, the social
reintegration of the convict is one of
the essential objectives of Criminal Law,
so, the State must provide the convict
with all the necessary conditions for his
reintegration into society. In a Democracy ruled by Law, the intervention of
Criminal Law is only justified in obedience to the constitutional principles
of necessity and subsidiarity. Criminal
sanctions cannot be dissociated from
another principle, as an insurmountable limit of the penalty: the principle
of guilt. So, in no case can there be a
penalty without guilt, or the measure
of the penalty exceeds the measure of
guilt. Penalties, even the deprivation of
liberty, will in no way put into question
the principle of the dignity of the human
person and the guarantees of defense
of the condemned.
Keywords: Constitutional and Legal
Framework, Deprivation of Liberty, Fundamental
Rights, Goals of Penalties, Procedural
Guarantees.
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THE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE PROTECTION TO THE PROVISIONALLY IMPRISONED WOMAN IN THE BRAZILIAN CRIMINAL SYSTEM:
THE (IN)EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COLLECTIVE
HABEAS CORPUS 143.641
Lillian Zucolote
de Oliveira
PUCPR
& Lourival José de Oliveira
UNIMAR
COIMBRA 2020
The rise in the incarcerated female
population has shown that the scenario
of overcrowding and precariousness
of Brazilian prison facilities is incapable of meeting female specific needs,
especially regarding the protection of
pregnant women or nursing mothers
and/or mothers of children under 12,
which constitutes a disrespect not only
to the incarcerated women but also
the rights of children and adolescents.
Moreover, the systematic violation of
the fundamental right of presumption
of innocence through the indiscriminate
use of preventive detention is added to
this scenario. Arising from this context
of violations, the present study aims
to deal with the necessary protection
of female pretrial detainees, mothers
or pregnant women in the Brazilian
legal order, as well as to analyze the
effects of the collective habeas corpus 143.641decision, issued by the
Federal Supreme Court. For such end,
the deductive method was used, with
primary sources, especially technical
reports produced by public and private law entities contained in the collective habeas corpus 143.641 itself,
which moved through the procedures
before the Federal Supreme Court,
secondary sources, through searches
in electronic sites that address gender-related violence in Brazil and bibliographic research, collecting various
works related to the topic in question,
notably by Robert Alexy, considering
the difficulties found in implementing
the protection of fundamental rights
in the case in question. As the work
progressed, the decision of the collective habeas corpus that determined the
State and Federal Courts should substitute, by law, preventive imprisonment
for home detention for all women who
are pregnant, post-partum mothers,
or mothers who have under-12-yearold or handicapped children, except
for cases of violent crimes or serious
threat against descendants or still, in
very exceptional situations, was viewed
as correct. Even though it was a decision with immediate and self-executing
effects, the noncompliance by the Judiciary Power itself, which failed to act ex
officio, consequently failed to provide
effectiveness to the decision. In view of
this noncompliance and with the intent
to produce effectiveness in the sense of
obtaining the protection of fundamental
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THE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE PROTECTION TO THE PROVISIONALLY IMPRISONED WOMAN
IN THE BRAZILIAN CRIMINAL SYSTEM:
THE (IN)EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COLLECTIVE HABEAS CORPUS 143.641
rights of pretrial female detainees, the
proposal put forward is that of the possibility of each magistrate’s individual
liability, as well as the State’s own strict
liability due to their omission regarding the sustainment of undue imprisonments. Furthermore, it was noted
that, in case the national jurisdiction
was not able to restrain the violations
perpetrated, there would be room for
a report to be filed to the Commission
and the Interamerican Court of Human
Rights. A conclusion was reached that
the violations perpetrated in the prison
environment in the face of women in
preventive imprisonment and their children were evident in Brazil, for which
reason it becomes extremely necessary
and urgent for certain measures to be
adopted. These need to be capable of
guaranteeing the effectiveness of the
decision within the habeas corpus, and
the Federal Constitution itself and international treaties.
Lillian Zucolote
de Oliveira
PUCPR
& Lourival José de Oliveira
UNIMAR
Keywords: Female Incarceration, Illegal
Imprisonment, Protection of Maternity,
Protection of Incarcerated Women,
Violation of Fundamental Rights.
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ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION AS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT
OF PERSONS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY. CASE LOJA – ECUADOR
Maritza Elizabeth Ochoa
Ochoa
UTPL
COIMBRA 2020
The article analyzes the right to higher
education, as a fundamental right that
the State must guarantee to individuals,
it starts from the analysis of the principles indicated in the Constitution of
the Republic of Ecuador (CRE), the current legislation, the different plans and
public policies of the State, which have
been created to recognize the effective
enjoyment to the right of higher education, since one of the aim of education, is to transform society, through
the transmission of values, culture,
norms, besides comprehend that the
right to the education is inherent to the
dignity of the individual and all people
should have the possibility of accessing it, including those groups that have
historically been discriminated against
such as the persons deprived of liberty
(PDL), since the only right affected is
ambulatory mobility It is necessary to
bear in mind that the PDLs are serving a
punitive sentence, which is understood
as a measure of reparation or solution
to social conflict, and each individual
undergoes an individualized rehabilitation plan, so that they acquire skills and
knowledge, so that in the future, when
serving their sentence they may be able
reintegrated into society, for this reason,
the recognition of the right to education
is transversal and is framed within the
aims of the rehabilitation process, in
addition to the fact that the prison system has as a priority the development
of the capacities of the PDLs to fulfill
their role in reformer or re-socializing
individuals. The research process carried out a qualitative study, which was
supported by technological means for
reasons of accessibility to the group and
reflection questions were raised, this
being a quality of the human being,
which allows analyzing their actions
and reflects their self-knowledge within
their individuality, to know the perception of people deprived of liberty who
are studying higher education, on the
advantages and disadvantages of the
training process. On the other hand,
a quantitative study was carried out
which focuses on the analysis of data
on persons deprived of liberty who are
pursuing their higher studies in distance
mode at the Private Technical University of Loja (UTPL), during the years of
2017 to 2019. Among the most relevant
results of the research are the affirmative action policies and the different
strategies proposed by the UTPL, being
a pioneering institution in distance
education and maintaining an inclusive approach towards priority attention groups as recognized in the CRE
to the PDLs, are determined the study
areas, the university careers that are
most in-demand by this population segment, besides access in terms of gender,
place or social rehabilitation center in
which they are serving the sentence,
as well as the level of state support for
higher education and the endogenous
and exogenous factors that influence
the formation process are determined.
Keywords: Inclusion, Higher Education,
People Deprived of Liberty, Right to Education,
Human Rights.
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THE BRAZILIAN QUESTION AS TO THE RELATIONSHIP
OF JAIL AND MATERNITY IN PANDEMIC TIMES
The subject of research in this article aims to address issues related to
female criminality, focused on the double particularity involving the condition
of a woman and mother imprisoned in
the Brazilian prison system, presenting
the relationships of vulnerabilities with
regard to their access to health, as well
as that of their children, coping strategies as positive practices in the prison
context and the struggle for the exercise
of citizenship, in the quality of dignity
of the human person, against persistent
violations of human rights, which mark
the lives of inmates, particularity now,
during the coronavirus pandemic. The
methodology used is based on the doctrinal analysis, as well as on the legal
normative context, also focusing on the
specific precedents addressing issues
related to motherhood in prison, including about breaking the bond between
mothers and children, in addition to the
family context, if applicable, inside and
outside the prison and/or regarding the
referral of children to State institutions
intended for their shelter, in cases in
which this family bond is nonexistent.
Likewise, the study objectively aims to
present the contrasting contradictions
of the government agencies of the Brazilian State, regarding the implementation of this specific prison policy, in
which the Supreme Court’s own precedents clash with decisions of Lower
Courts Judges, who refused to change
the prison regime of those sentenced
to house arrest, nor did they release
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the mothers not yet convicted to return
to their homes. As a partial result, the
study proposes Collective Habeas
Corpus, filed by 16 Public Defender’s
Offices, with the 1 PhD in Philosophy
from Universidade do Vale do Rio dos
Sinos, master’s in philosophy from Pontifícia Universidade Católica –PUC/RS.
Bachelor of Law from Universidade do
Vale dos Sinos. Lawyer. Email: hiquekeske@hotmail.com2 PhD in Law from
Universidade de Burgos, Master in Law
from Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul,
Specialist in Law from Universidade de
Santa Cruz do Sul, Lawyer, Professor
of the Law Course at Faculdade Estácio
de Sá/Porto Alegre. Federal Supreme
Court, so that mothers and women in
the postpartum period, according to a
survey carried out by the Department of
Penitentiary Information, of the Ministry
of Justice and Public Security, are moved
to house arrest, as a way of preserving
their lives and that of their children, far
from experiencing the unhealthy conditions of detention centers, in view of
their classification as a maximum risk
group for contagion. Lastly, an alert is
issued in the sense of the silence of
government agencies regarding the situations of hospital admissions, in case
of contagion, resulting in a somewhat
invisibility of this public, who is already
notoriously violated in their human condition.
Claudine Freire
Rodembusch,
Estacio Faculty of Rio Grande do Sul
Henrique Alexander Keske
University of Rittler dos Reis
– Porto Alegre
& Jacques Fernando
Ackerman
State Military Brigade of Rio Grande
do Sul
Keywords: Motherhood in Prison, Coronavirus
Pandemic, Conflicting Decisions by the State
Powers, Violations of Human Rights.
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GENDER INEQUALITIES AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE:
REFLECTIONS FROM PRISON
Aline Martinelli
& Ana Paula Pimenta
da Silva
Fernando Pessoa University
COIMBRA 2020
Since the beginning, we have experienced a patriarchal system, in which
the man had the economic, political and
sexual power over the woman, with the
woman being relegated some roles to
be fulfilled, the mother, the wife, the
reproducer and for having her performance. Restricted to the domestic environment, it was considered by
Criminal Law incapable of committing
some kinds of crimes. As a criminal,
the woman to be the perpetrator of any
deviation would first receive a social
punishment, for not having fulfilled her
role and if that deviation constituted
a criminal type, she would secondly
receive a formal punishment from the
State, predetermined by the gender
patriarchal order. The present study
aims to demonstrate the evolution of
this paradigm and the role of women in
the legal environment, as a victim and a
criminal, analyzing in parallel the reference of women, who, although authors,
have already been victims of some
type of domestic and family violence
in some previous moment of their lives.
In addition, it is intended to reflect on
the Brazilian prison situation as a guarantor of women’s rights. The method
used will be qualitative and narrative,
consisting of analyzing data about
incarcerated women and will address
the following points: addressing the historical evolution of the problem and its
main situational factors for increasing
rates, previous relationship of violence
suffered and the performance of public
agencies. Therefore, we can verify that
female crime is related to several social
factors experienced by women, such as
discrimination, historical prejudice and
gender inequality, in addition to realizing that the vast majority of women
in prison in Brazil are black and have
no elementary education. complete.
The work is of great relevance since it
reflects the abandonment of women and
their precarious situation when serving
time in Brazilian prisons. It is hoped
that this work can serve as a support
for a better understanding of the issues
that permeate women in prison and that
it can raise new discussions that will
provide greater awareness regarding
the prevention of domestic violence and
women’s rights, even though they are
incarcerated.
Keywords: Criminality, Gender,
Offending Women, Prison.
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THE HISTORICAL PATH OF THE IMPLEMENTATION/CONSOLIDATION
OF THE LGBT WING IN THE PUBLIC JAIL OF PORTO ALEGRE/BRAZIL
In the present article, the object of
research turns to address issues related
to female crime, focused on the double
specificity that involves the condition
of woman and mother imprisoned in
the Brazilian prison system, presenting the imbrications of vulnerabilities
with regard to their access to health,
as well as that of their children, coping strategies as positive practices in
the prison context and the struggle for
the exercise of citizenship, as the dignity of the human person, in the face
of the persistent violations of human
rights, which mark life convicted, especially now, in the face of the coronavirus
pandemic. The methodology used starts
from the doctrinal analysis, as well as
from the legal-normative context, also
focusing on the specific Jurisprudence
that deals with issues related to motherhood in prison, including about the
break of the bond between mothers and
children, as well as the family context,
when it occurs, inside and outside the
prison and / or concerning the referral
of children to State institutions destined
to their shelter, in cases where this family bond does not exist. Likewise, as an
objective of study, it seeks to present
the disparate contradictions of the public organs of the Brazilian State, regarding the execution of this specific prison
policy, in which the Supreme Federal
Court’s own instances collide with decisions of 1st Instance Judges, who they
refused to change the prison regime for
those sentenced to house arrest, nor
did they release the mothers still without a sentence to return to their homes.
As a partial result, it is the Collective
Habeas Corpus, required by 16 Public
Defenders, with the Federal Supreme
Court, so that mothers and puerperal
women, according to a survey carried
out by the Department of Penitentiary
Information, of the Ministry of Justice
and Public Security, are taken house
arrest, as a way of preserving their
lives and that of their children, far from
experiencing the unhealthy conditions
of prison houses, as a result of constituting, in this way, a maximum risk
group for contagion. Finally, an alert
is launched about the sense of silence
of public agencies regarding situations
of hospital admissions, in case of contagion, producing a kind of invisibility
about this public already notoriously
attacked in their human condition.
Henrique Alexander Keske
University of Rittler dos Reis
– Porto Alegre
Claudine Freire
Rodembusch,
Estacio Faculty of Rio Grande do Sul
& Jacques Fernando
Ackerman
State Military Brigade of Rio Grande
do Sul
Keywords: Motherhood in Prison, Coronavirus
Pandemic, Disparate Decisions by the State
Powers, Aggressions Against Human Rights.
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WOMEN IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, ARGENTINA (1976-1983)
Julio Lisandro Cañón Voirin
University of Santiago de Compostela
If something distinguishes the modern state and, at the same time, differentiates it from the types of state
that preceded it, it is having achieved
a monopoly on violence. This power
allows it to have all possible legal
resources to implement repressive
measures, under the control of coercive
institutions. However, reality has shown
that states can free themselves from
correlative imitations of the rule of law
and apply rationally directed violence
to eliminate, destroy or at least weaken
certain human groups. In this way, we
place ourselves before our object of
study, to inquire into the specificity of
violence against women, while they
were in captivity. The Inter-American
Convention to Prevent, Eradicate and
Punish Violence against Women clearly
summarizes what, here, we understand as violence against woman: “any
action or conduct, based on gender, that
causes death, harm or physical, sexual or psychological suffering to the
woman”. We will address the experience of four political activists in the concentration camps of the city of Paraná
(capital of the province of Entre Ríos).
As women, in the context of human
rights violations, they suffered a particular form of torture: sexual violence.
The World Health Organization defines
sexual violence as: “any sexual act, the
attempt to consummate a sexual act,
unwanted sexual comments or innuendoes, or actions to commercialize or use
in any other way the sexuality of a person through coercion by other person”.
Although the definition does not distinguish sex or sexual orientation, it is a
fact that this type of violence is almost
exclusively perpetrated against women.
This paper proposes an approach to a
dimension of the practices of State
terrorism in Argentina: torture in the
concentration camps. More specifically,
about the torture suffered by women
during their captivity. For this, we analyze the experience of four political
activists, kidnapped in the province of
Entre Ríos. The text reviews three distinct moments, the before, during and
after State terrorism. Each one of them
allows, without deflating the magnitude
of what happened, understanding how
the objective structures of the State are
modified to exterminate the reduced
groups to a negativized otherness.
Keywords: Violence, Captivity, Women, Torture,
Argentina.
COIMBRA 2020
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DISRESPECT FOR THE DIGNITY OF “BEING A WOMAN”:
INTERSECTIONAL WOMEN IN PRISON
According to the data released by
the National Penitentiary Department
(Departamento Penitenciário Nacional
-DEPEN), through Infopen, in 2019 Brazil had 748,009 prisoners confined in
prison units, with the female population
corresponding to more than 37 thousand. In 2017, the year of the survey
by the last Infopen Women, 37% of the
inmates were provisional and most of
the inmates, who are black or brown
and from a less affluent social class,
had committed the crime of drug trafficking. In this way, the theme of the
present research and general objective
is to discuss the female reality in prison,
specifically in Brazil, paying attention
to the existing intersectionality and
the macho patriarchal heritage that
permeates society. It appears that the
prison is masculine and masculinizing,
a fact that makes women deprived of
their freedom even more invisible to
society and to the prison system itself.
To this end, the study has the following specific objectives: a) to evaluate
the reality of women in Brazilian prisons, analyzing in the light of the dignity
of the human person, how the prison
system treats them in relation to their
peculiarities of “being a woman”; b) Daiana Nicoletti Alves &
analyze and discuss the reasons that Wanessa Assunção Ramos
led them to the world of crime, ana- PUCPR
lyzing the social, racial and family profile of women deprived of their liberty;
and c) understand what changes are
needed in the Brazilian prison system
and whether there is a true application of constitutional legislation in the
light of its fundamental principles and
guarantees and how much machismo
and gender inequality still influence the
current prison model. The methodology
used was qualitative research, through
an inductive method with bibliographic
and documentary analysis. By analyzing the concatenated data, it can be
concluded that despite the edition of
different normative acts that seek to
meet the dictates of the Democratic
State of Law adopted by the Constitution of the Republic, the situation of
women in Brazilian prison, which has
already been recognized as unconstitutional through Arguição de Descumprimento de Preceito Fundamental nº
347, does not respect the dignity of the
human person, constituting a true policy of state and genocidal government.
Keywords: Women, Prison, Dignity.
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PUNITIVE VS RESTORATIVE. HOW THE SYSTEM
CHARACTERISTIC INFLUENCE THE DECISION OF BECOMING
MOTHER DURING PRISONS IN MEXICO AND ROMANIA
Ioana Dana Obrinteschi
Iancu
University of Bucharest Romania
COIMBRA 2020
The research aims to explain the
reason behind the woman’s decision to
become mother during the sentence
in Mexico and Romania. Data collection took place using semi-structural
interview in the largest women’s prison
in Latin America, Saint Martha Social
Rehabilitation Center -Mexico City and
Târgșor Prison the only female prison
in Romania and tries to identify similarities and differences in terms of convicted woman motivation to conceive
a child in a time when their rights and
freedom are restricted. The study was
also analzying laws and prison facilities for children in both countries and
when this comparation was overlapped
with the interview results, it turned out
that beyond the social influence that
in order to validate woman as an individ, still presses her to fulfill the biological role of giving birth, there is the
need she has to adapt her fears and
wishes to the system coercition. Even
after the 2016 reform of the National
Criminal Law in Mexico, the criminal justice system remains a punitive
one, characterized by high limits of
punishments, successive execution of
convictions for concurrent crimes, mandatory preventive custody for along list
of criminal offenses and limited possibility to request parole and probation.
At the same time Romania pushed by
the European Commission climate, is
making notable progress towards a
restorative justice system. From 2014,
the Criminal Code reduced the limits
of penalties and give an important role
to alternative detention measures. The
results shows that in Romania only one
woman conceived during conjugal visit,
the rest were being pregnant at the
time they started prison while in Mexico, with 2 exceptions, children were
conceived during the sentence, most
of them with a men also convicted.
Mothers from both prisons had similar age when they gave birth for the
first time behind bars, the average in
Romania was 30 years old and 28 in
Mexico but the mexicanes were about
6 years younger then Romanians, when
they started prison and their sentence,
is significantly longer. If in Romania the
average sentence is 6 years in Mexico is
27 years. Regardless nationality, all the
respondents of the study, maintain that
they can imagine life widout having kids.
Besides that, the context of the relatively short sentences made the Romanians declare that in the best interest
of the child, they would have avoided
pregnancy if they had known about the
conviction, maybe postponed for later,
while in Mexico postponement was not
possible, women claim that they chose
to become mothers after a long time
in detention (on average 5.7 years)
because they counted that by the time
of release, their fertile period would
have ended and that’s why they made
this decision even if they list multiple
disadvantages of motherhood in prison.
The study opens discussions about the
relativity of justice by showing women
placed in the same disadvantaged situation –detention but located in different
legal contexts depending on the country.
Keywords: Punitive Justice, Female Prison,
Motherhood, Mexico, Romania.
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THE SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL PROFILES OF FOREIGN WOMEN
IN SPANISH PRISONS. AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS
The over-representation of foreign
women who are incarcerated in Spain
finds its roots in a process of mass
imprisonment of the foreign population
that started at the beginning of the 21st
century and has caused profound structural consequences. Among these, feminist criminology has highlighted very
pronounced discriminations and harsh
conditions in the imprisonment experiences of immigrant women. This has
been called as a ‘triple sentence’, which
begins in the criminal justice system
with the intersection of diverse axes of
gender and racial oppression, and does
not end after their release, creating a
situation of marginality that seriously
threatens the successful re-entry into
their communities. This study analyses
the main socio-educational characteristics of these women, taking specific
account of their migratory project, with
the aim of overcoming the invisibility
to which they are subjected and the
systematic neglect of their needs. To
this end, a quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive investigation has
been conducted with a data-producing sample composed of 159 foreign
women that are serving a sentence in
Spanish prisons. They were administered a sociodemographic questionnaire
as a semi-structured interview, composed of 67 questions (56 closed and
11 open) grouped into 7 categories:
individual and family profile, migration
project, educational attainment, professional experience, drug use, criminal
career, and life in prison.The obtained
data reveal a range of socio-educational characteristics that define these
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women as a heterogeneous group with Cristina Varela Portela,
their own identity, totally differentiated ESCULCA Research Group
from the profile of white inmates. In Anaïs Quiroga-Carrillo
general terms, it can be affirmed that RIES Research Network
they are young (59.1% are under 36 & Gabriela Míguez-Salina
years old), single women (42.1%), with University of Santiago de Compostela
children (76.8%) that have achieved a
medium-high level of education (13.2%
have completed a university degree and
50% have finished secondary school).
They mostly come from South America (57.9%) and they are convicted of
offenses against public health (76.9%).
After the quantitative analysis of the
data, the results show statistically significant differences in the profile of the
inmates according to their migratory
project. Thus, two distinct groups are
identified with regard to such project:
those who already lived in Spain before
entering prison and had emigrated
mainly for economic reasons; and those
who were detained at the border and
do not hold a life course in the country. It can be concluded that these differentiated groups present a series of
different ducational intervention needs
that must be addressed by the penitentiary administration. The ethnic and
cultural plurality of the inmate population should be understood as an axiological criterion in prison programming
and shall be further studied, since the
guarantee of full and effective re-entry
in a society defined by that same plurality depends on it.
Keywords: Gender, Migrations, Foreign Women,
Incarcerated Women, Socio-Educational Profiles.
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THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF GENDER AND ETHNICITY
IN THE PRISON. NA EDUCATIVE CHALLENGE
Cristina Varela Portela,
ESCULCA Research Group
Anaïs Quiroga-Carrillo
RIES Research Network
& Gabriela Míguez-Salina
University of Santiago de Compostela
COIMBRA 2020
At the beginning of the 21st century,
a process of massive imprisonment of
the foreign population began in Spain,
due to their hyper-criminalization and
the implementation of ‘get-tough’ policies. In this context, immigrant women
were not only imprisoned in greater
proportion, but also for the commission of less serious crimes. In recent
years, feminist literature has shown
how discipline, infantilization, feminization, medicalization and domesticity are
promoted in women’s prisons and how
this creates situations of inequity that
are deeply mediated by the intersection of structural factors such as gender,
ethnicity, and class. This paper is aimed
at analysing the oppressive practices
and institutional discriminations suffered by foreign women in the criminal justice system. For that purpose,
a mixed methodology has been used:
firstly, a quantitative analysis of official statistics was carried out with the
objective of comparing imprisonment
rates according to different variables;
and secondly, a qualitative review of the
literature was developed, focusing the
scope in the field of feminist criminology, in order to reveal the systematic
patterns of oppression and institutional
discrimination that take place in prisons
worldwide, which are exacerbated by
the intersectionality of gender and ethnicity. The results of this research show
that in 2000 the imprisonment rate of
foreign women was ten times higher
than the total female rate. Two decades
later, despite a gradual decrease that
continued until 2013, it is still three
times higher. In this sense, although
the Western trend of foreigners’ mass
imprisonment has aroused relative
interest in the literature, the same has
not happened when it comes to women.
In addition to the obvious invisibility
they are subjected to, in prison they
suffer structural sexism and racism.
After their release, poverty, precarious employment, and social stigma
generate difficult situations of multiple
marginalization that will seriously hinder their re-entry into the community.
On the other hand, 25% of the female
prison population is Roma, a group that,
despite being Spanish, also faces institutional racism from a very early age.
Hence, they are criminalized because of
their ethnicity, just as foreign women
are. It is essential that prisons begin to
embrace the gender-responsive treatment that prevails in the international
panorama, taking into account how
ethnicity and other structural factors
have defined their pathways to crime.
This approach focuses on the specific
needs of each woman while addressing specific risk factors such as abuse,
trauma, family and social relationships,
or substance abuse. Additionally, consideration should also be given to minimizing the situations of social exclusion
in which women are placed after prison.
Pedagogical action in the community
seems to be the most powerful way to
achieve this goal.
Keywords: Female Prisoners, Foreign Women,
Mass Incarceration, Migrations, Intersectionality.
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CHILD PROTECTION IN THE PRISON SYSTEM:
A NECESSARY DEBATE
This study proposes to debate about
the coexistence of children with their
parents when they are taken to the
prison system. Child protection is a
formal and humanely recognized right,
whether through the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Children, or
through the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, being included in several
Constitutions. In Brazil, the situation is
no different. The Federal Constitution,
as well as ordinary legislation, represented primarily by the Civil Code and
the Statute of Children and Adolescents,
ensure the right to a child with full protection for physical, mental and social
development. The protection provided
involves family life, breastfeeding, the
right to school, the right to play, among
others. Although the Law of Penal Executions and the Statute of the Child
and Adolescent provide for the possibility of coexistence of the child after
birth and until it completes 07 years
of age, guaranteeing medical-hospital
follow-up and daycare centers, the factual situation has proved to be different
from the legal provisions. The physical
space of a prison house in Brazil is far
from having adequate conditions for the
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prisoner’s resocialization, and, regard- Claudia Maria Petry
ing the possibility of maternal-filial De Faria
coexistence, much remains to be done, & Letícia Petry De Faria
both in physical facilities and in relation Feevale University
to the services provided. In addition to
the care regarding physical environments, there is a need for attention to
the education of the child living in the
mother’s prison and the preparation for
the final moment, when, then, there
will be the departure from the prison.
As an alternative to this situation, the
Brazilian Judiciary has decided to grant
a prison sentence under home regime,
which also opposes the very idea of
punishing the criminal fact and contrary
to society. Another aspect that deserves
a careful look is related to the right to
exercise paternity when the child lives
with the mother in prison, which can
cause significant damage to the right
to coexistence. Thus, the theme is relevant, current and pertinent to contemporaneity. The method to be used
is empiricist and deductive, being used
through qualitative research through
bibliographic and jurisprudential consultation.
Keywords: Child, Comprehensive Protection,
Prison, Coexistence.
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MATERNITY TRAJECTORY IN PRISON
Verónica Montoya González
COIMBRA 2020
This presentation comes from the
doctoral research entitled “Maternity
in prison: Patterns of the interaction
of inmate mothers and minor children
who live with them at the Santa Martha Acatitla Women’s Center for Social
Readaptation.” Thanks to the feminist
movement in the 1970s, among other
studies, those related to women in
prison began, Identifying conditions
of life in confinement such as motherhood. Even though it is recognized that
in some countries such as Europeans
the subject has been studied through
various investigations, the information is still limited, particularly in Latin
American countries such as Mexico.
Feminism has demonstrated that motherhood is not an essential characteristic of women, but a social construction
regulated by demographic, economic
and political discourses issued by the
State and its institutions whose set of
beliefs and meanings give rise to models to which mothers they must adhere
to the upbringing of children, in case of
contravening them, without any consideration being given to their life circumstances, women will be considered as
“bad mothers”. Ideological framework
that configures inmate mothers who
live in prison with minor children, a different situation compared to men who
are fathers and who also enter prison,
leaving the entire responsibility of the
children to the mothers. The purpose of
this paper is to make known the meaning given to motherhood by reclusive
mothers with minor children who live
with them, as well as the circumstances
in which they accomplish the upbring-
ing in a confinement setting, governed
by routines that organize daily life, by
constant vigilance and the lack of conditions that obstruct the development of
their children. The procedure used in the
research was qualitative and the fieldwork was carried out from ethnography.
The information was obtained through
participant observation and exhaustive
interviews, activities that were achieved
during the nine months of immersion
in the field. In Mexico, of the 309 correctional facilities, only 21 are exclusively for women; This does not mean
that all have been created precisely for
this population and 40 destined for a
mixed population, in both cases, as in
most of the country’s prisons, the lack
of facilities and budget do not guarantee the minimum necessary conditions
to provide to women and minor children who accompany them a dignified
and safe stay. Given the shortage and
lack of family support and the abandonment of the couple, mothers are
solely responsible for the maintenance
and care of their children, the command
of motherhood is inescapable, even in
these places. Consequently, given the
evidence obtained, the answer to the
question of this Symposium: Is prison
a democratic space? It is stated that it
is not, motherhood in prison is conclusive proof of gender inequalities. The
establishment thought and designed for
men where women continue to be an
appendix to the Penitentiary System.
Keywords: Motherhood, Prison, Feminism,
Gender Inequalities, Minors Living in Prison.
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EXTRAORDINARY APPEAL OF REVIEW
– THE ULTIMATE PROCEDURE GUARANTEE AGAINST UNFAIR
INCARCERATION
When the judicial decision is not
coherent with the truth of the facts, not
consistent with what really happened
or, this is, when the version of the
facts inserted on the decision does not
fit reality, that decision deserves to be
called unjust, due to the incomplete or
incorrect investigation of material truth.
If those injustice results from a mistake of assessment or judgment, by the
judge or jurors, resulting from the exercise of the judicial function, we have a
decision with a judicial error. This decision is far from being a fair decision as
less chances that this decision is under
judicial appeal. This leads us to consider
the harmful consequences of judicial
error in a final and unappealable decision and, therefore, no longer subjected
to an ordinary appeal. Furthermore,
if this decision is condemnatory and,
above all, if it condemns in the most
severe penalty that Portuguese penal
system provides -the prison sentence -,
the consequences of the judicial error of
that decision can destroy the justice in
the judicial process. This means that, in
the end, we may be unjustly condemning an innocent person to deprivation of
liberty, a fundamental right found in the
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Constitution of the Portuguese Republic Ana Teresa Carneiro
(CRP) and which can only be restricted ISMAI
in very exceptional cases, also provided
in the CRP. Thus, if the right to appeal
is a procedure guarantee of fundamental defense -also provided in the
number 1 of the article 32 of the CRP,
the extraordinary appeal for review in
these situation assumes particular relevance in the protection of the primacy
of justice, allowing that a final decision
already immutable in the legal order
might be -for justice reasons -replaced
by a new decision resulting from a new
judgment on the same facts that rise to
the revised decision. This work intends
to point out the risk of judicial error in
the context of a prison’ condemnatory
decision sentence and to emphasize the
relevance of the ultimate mechanism
for overcoming this error, regarding
the final decisions -the extraordinary
appeal of review.
Keywords: Judicial Mistake, Unfair
Incarceration, Criminal Procedure Guarantees,
Right of Appeal, Extraordinary Appeal
for Review.
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MEDIATION, MATERNITY AND PRISON:
THE INTERSECTION OF THE THREE PILLARS
Claudia Ernst Rohden
SJT
& Simone Schroeder
FEEVALE
COIMBRA 2020
The writing deals with the relationship between conflict mediation, motherhood and incarceration, questioning
the nature of being a mother today
and the incorporation of motherhood
in the role of women in the family and
in society.The reflection starts from the
historical analysis of the role played by
women over time, works with the separation between mother and child, after
their birth and ponders on the place
of fathers and mothers in this relationship. It puts into play the illusory and
symbolic connection of the relationship
between mother and child in which the
third party is always present. From this
perspective, the work is systematized
obeying the empirical methodology,
using the narratives of women prisoners and their reflections on experiences in prison and family distancing.
The extension activity was carried out
in the prison in weekly workshops held
in 2018 and the data came from the
diaries constructed by the women participating in the Citizenship Desk project. By understanding what is said and
unspoken, it is possible to understand
the reception (or not) by the other, perceiving the meanings in (dis) alignment
and looking for mediating ways for the
understanding between the members
that integrate the family structure.
The results obtained corroborate the
hypothesis launched, namely: that, as
a result of historically founded discursive practices, women remain in a lower
position than men, and social and legal
discourse despite trying to cover up discrimination and prejudice reveals traces
of other senses, which are reflected in
family and relationships. On the other
hand, the prison issue, above all, reaffirms the subjection of the restriction
of freedom and the various restrictions
that women face in their maternal relationship. In this sense, how can motherhood be developed in the context
of incarceration without the effective
listening of this mother and her relationship with the child (ren)? In this
sense, it is necessary in the Democratic
State of Law, to develop mediation
tools within the prison, as one of the
bridges of access to justice, in the sense
of access to information. In this step,
the qualified listening of these imprisoned mothers, and their relationship
with the penalty and with their family,
despite the personality that accompanies the criminal sanction, erected at
the constitutional principle can bring
transformations. Thus, to think that it
is possible to consider the prospect of
transforming established paradigms
and that, in fact, there is the possibility
of reflecting, in addition to the assumptions established historically, is to take
care of the evolution of a society and to
safeguard the dignity and equality of its
members. In addition, in prison spaces,
subjections can lead to multiple overpunctions that incarceration triggers in
your rights and duties as a person and
as a mother. It is concluded that the
mediation tools are a response to the
harmonious composition of the family,
as it provides and strengthens family
bonds as it positively interferes in the
phenomenon of the inclusion of third
parties, enabling changes in attitude
and behavior, despite the prison.
Keywords: Maternity, Mediation, Prison, Third.
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MODEL OF PROFESSIONAL MENTORING FOR ORPHANED CHILDREN
IN THE SYSTEM OF SECONDARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN RUSSIA
The system of secondary vocational
education in modern society appears
as one of the basic institutions for the
creation of labor resources and a guarantor of innovative development of the
economy. At the same time, the domestic SVE system is characterized by the
implementation of the social function
complex, namely, socialization and education of the younger generation, as
well as the professional and personal
development of adolescents with certain limitations and difficulties in development, and in particular of orphaned
children. By automatic admission of
orphaned children in SVE institutions,
many directors of professional colleges
note the low level of general vocational
training in this category, which does not
allow them to successfully study and
to get a job in the future. The level
of social maladjustment of orphaned
children is several times higher than
that of ordinary children. According to
research, only 10% to 30% of orphaned
children normally adapt to an independent life as a result of socialization
disorders. Orphans who grow up in
orphanages, brought up by custodians,
become easy prey for the underworld,
because the socialization conditions for
orphaned children differ sharply from
the socialization conditions for children
from families. These special conditions
lead to specific (deformed, emotionally
deficient) personal development, so
they readily succumb to criminal temptations and manipulations. According to
statistics, almost every second gradu-
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ate of the orphanage was in the “risk” Azerbaeva Natalia
group (he/she was a homeless per- Altynbekovna
son, was under examination, or com- Novomoskovk Technological College
mitted offenses, and mostly property
ones: robberies, felony assault). For
all the above circumstances, orphaned
children have a reduced potential for
adaptation to the conditions of ordinary
life outside the orphanage. Accordingly,
overcoming these limitations and building up the adaptive and professional
capacities of orphans is the main goal
of the institutions of the SVE system.
The instrument for achieving this goal
is the institution of mentoring, where
the processes of becoming of professional skills and the formation of the
student’s personal values are intensified. Effective and organized mentoring
of students in SVE conditions is both
a means and a lever of professional
training and development of orphans,
while under the equal status education
and upbringing, which radically impacts
the development trajectory of orphaned
children and contributes to the formation of spiritual and moral immunity
to asocial behavior that this has been
proven in research.
Keywords: Education, Orphaned Children,
Socialization, Adaptation, Mentoring.
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THE POSITION OF THE SUPREME FEDERAL COURT
OF BRAZIL (STF) GIVEN RECOMMENDATION NO. 62
OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUSTICE (CNJ)
Fabricio Manoel Oliveira,
UFMG
Isabela Faleiro Oliveira
UFMG
& Daniela Martins Laubé
FGV
The pandemic caused by COVID-19
has led many governments, including
the Brazilian, to adopt incisive measures of viral containment, and this in
practically all the specters of society.
In the prison system, however, this
is not so. Brazil, through the National
Council of Justice, has only drawn up
the Recommendation No. 62, which
only suggests the reevaluation of prisons, it recommends the application of
open and home regime measures, the
revision of decisions that impose semi
liberty or even internment, the granting of early exits or the extension of
the return of temporary exits, as well
as it indicates the exceptionality that
prisons should have at this time, given
the pandemic scenario. It is not binding
because it is only a recommendation.
In practice, then, what is noticeable
is that few magistrates have followed
the parameters set by it, mainly due to
media pressure, sensationalist, melodramatic and Manicheism (criminal law
of the spectacle), who forget that in
Brazil there is an overcrowding of the
prison system, with a deficit of about
300 thousand vacancies, as well as that
the prisoners live in extreme precariousness and worrying conditions, without minimum and adequate possibilities
of access to sanitation. It is not insignificant to emphasize that a large part
of the prison population has pre-existing diseases and illnesses of the most
diverse, falling into the group of risk of
Coronavirus. Adding to this the absence
or ineffectiveness of access to health
and basic assistance services, there
is an extremely propitious cauldron
for the large scale spread of the virus,
with the consequent death of thousands
of people. The Court should act, when
provoked, to guarantee and enforce the
fundamental rights and guarantees of
those in such a situation, since it is the
guardian of the Federal Constitution.
However, that does not seem to be
what is happening. In principle, a minister of the Court, in an interview, was
against the recommendation, because
it could “generate an unprecedented
crisis in national public security. However, it is based on the hypothesis that
it is its non-compliance that will generate an unprecedented (humanitarian)
crisis, given the imminence of prison
collapse and deaths, which could even
provoke rebellions and conflicts of the
most diverse. Faced with such a scenario, the work aims at understanding
what has been the stance of the Court
given Recommendation No. 62, not only
from dialectics and the manifestations
of the Court and its ministers, whether
verbal or written, but also jurisprudential, that is, by analyzing the decisions
of the court that deal with the matter.
To do so, the work relies on a descriptive-exploratory legal methodology,
inductive reasoning, and the theoretical
method, using specialized bibliography
and specific jurisprudential research, an
undertaking that is justified, both for
academia and society, given the relevance and actuality of the issue.
Keywords: Supreme Federal Court of Brazil,
Recommendation No. 62, Covid-19, Prison
System.
COIMBRA 2020
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THE RETENTION OF BASIC EMERGENCY INCOME
FOR FAMILY MEMBERS OF INMATES IN BRAZIL:
A DISCRIMINATORY AND SEGREGATIONIST ECHO?
COVID-19 is a viral disease with a
very high rate of transmissibility and
hospitalization, it can spread to a large
number of people in a short period,
causing inflation and the consequent
collapse of hospitals, which are not able
to support all the demand. In an attempt
to mitigate such effects, a considerable number of countries have adopted
quarantine procedures as a strategy of
containment, allowing only the operation of essential activities. With the closure of trade and activities considered
non-essential, a large contingent of the
population, composed mainly of informal and self-employed workers, is prevented from working and consequently
obtaining monthly income. To maintain
this part of the population in this period,
the States must adopt social-economic
benefits, such as the Basic Emergency
Income instituted in Brazil. This benefit
imports the payment of R$ 600.00 for
the period of 3 months, which can be
extended (and probably will be), for all
adults without employment ties (unemployed, informal workers and self-employed), and the amount of R$ 1,200.00
for all mothers who support their family
nucleus alone. There are only four limitations to the receipt: a maximum of
two people per family can earn it; the
income of the beneficiary family must
be at most3 minimum wages or 0.5
minimum wages per capita; the beneficiary may not have received more than
R$28,559.70 in taxable income in the
year 2018; and such income may not
be accumulated with any other social
benefit granted by the Brazilian gov-
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ernment, except for the family stipend. Isabela Vaz de Oliveira
Once these requirements are met, it UFMG
must be granted as a plan. However, Fabricio Manoel Oliveira,
in an a priori analysis, it seems that UFMG
this is not what is happening. According & Daniela Martins Laubé
to reports in the national media, the FGV
payment of the benefit to family members of inmates is met with some form
of disposal. According to the information disclosed, in a letter sent to the
Federal Public Ministry by the Ministry
of Citizenship, Dataprev, the company
that processes the population’s data for
the granting of the benefit, would have
stated that it temporarily restricted the
access of relatives of prisoners to the
aid, as established by the Ministry of
Citizenship. However, there are no conditions in the legislation itself that define
this type of government action. The fact
that someone is incarcerated has nothing to do with obtaining assistance for
their family. This impoundment, in a
first analysis, seems to be a manifestly
illegal act, since it is outside of any
normative parameter. In this scenario,
based on a descriptive-exploratory legal
methodology, deductive reasoning, and
the theoretical method, the work aims
to understand the reasons for containing this financial flow and whether this
is ultimately an echo or a reflection of
the stigmas caused by the prison system, which often go beyond the person
of the prisoner himself and fall on part
of his social nucleus, configuring a kind
of biopolitics of control and segregation.
Keywords: Basic Emergency Income; Family
Members of Inmates; Restriction; Segregation.
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EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONSTRAINT:
NOTES ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND (THE ABSENCE OF)
PUBLIC POLICIES ON COVID-19 IN THE BRAZILIAN
PRISON SYSTEM
Daniela Martins Laubé
FGV
Fabricio Manoel Oliveira,
UFMG
& Isabela Vaz de Oliveira
UFMG
COIMBRA 2020
In 2015 the Federal Supreme Court
of Brazil (STF) recognized that in Brazil the prison system represents an
unconstitutional state of affairs, given
the degrading and unworthy living conditions to which prisoners are subjected,
with intermittent human rights violations, not only vertically, but even from
a horizontal point of view. In addition
to overcrowding, where there are only
460,000 vacancies for about 770,000
people, there is a lack of minimal and
adequate access to health, hygiene and
food. Brazil (and most of the countries
in the world) is currently going through
a pandemic caused by COVID-19, a
highly infectious viral disease with a
very high mortality rate, especially in
people with pre-existing diseases or
conditions, as is the case of a large
portion of the prison population. To try
to contain the advance of Coronavirus
in penitentiaries, the Brazilian government, through the National Council of
Justice (CNJ), edited the Recommendation No. 62, which in summary suggests
to judges to reassess prisons, especially
those of a provisional nature, indicating
that imprisonment should only be maintained in exceptional cases. It occurs
that, because it is a mere recommendation, it does not have a binding character, that is, it is not obligatory, which
makes that very few judges follow the
guidelines outlined by it. Therefore, in
practice, little or nothing has changed.
However, the maintenance of this sce-
nario is leaning towards an imminent
collapse of the Brazilian prison system,
with the death of thousands of people.
Faced with this scenario at the federal
level, this research aims to understand
and scrutinize the public prison policies
adopted by each Brazilian state concerning the pandemic caused by COVID-19
and, from that, investigate its possible
(and probable) impacts. Finally, it aims
to propose measures that seek to minimize them, given the social responsibility that the entire community has for
the lives of these people, in respect for
human rights and the principle of the
dignity of the human person, bulwarks
of the 1988 Federal Constitution and
international treaties internalized by
Brazil. For this, the work is based on
a descriptive-exploratory legal methodology, deductive reasoning and the
theoretical method, using specialized
bibliography and official data regarding the advancement of Coronavirus in
penitentiaries. It should be mentioned
that the work is justified, both for academia and society, not only because of
its epistemological constraint aspect,
since it is possible that one is facing one
of the greatest human rights violations
in national territory, even though it is
veiled and latent, but also because it
will try to point out possible solutions to
solve the issue, despite its complexity.
Keywords: Epistemological Constraint,
Human Rights, Prison System, Covid-19, Brazil.
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THE INVISIBILITY OF THE FEMALE TEENAGER WHO SERVES
A SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL MEASURE OF CONFINEMENT
IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICT, BRAZIL
The female adolescent who enters
the socio-educational system to serve
in the modality of confinement faces a
brutal reality of gender disparity. It is a
structure that, frighteningly, reproduces
patterns of the prison system and condemns these girls to the abandonment
and stigma of a “criminal”, in dissonance
with the brazilian “Estatuto da Criança
e do Adolescente –ECA”. Initially, the
present study compiles the bibliography of official data on the young women
confined in the Federal District in order
tooutline a profile of these girls. In addition, is also analyzed the available data
on the living conditions of the young
women in the units: their relationships
with companions, agents, the outside
world and their own feminine essence.
The State often fails with these girls.
In a socio-educational measure, what
is expected is a fertile environment
to learning and growth. However, the
structures of the Socio-Educational
Units are unprepared and don’t prioritized study, psychological support or
specialized female healthcare. Institutionalization reflects in a particular way
on women, forced to frame their being
in a patriarchal system, blind to the
female needs and particularities, and a
predominantly male police culture. Ultimately, this paper relates the treatment
given with the paths that are followed
by the girls after they served the measure in the Federal District. Naturally,
each girl has her own personality and
particularities that must be seen and
recognized. Nevertheless, the similarity
of their profiles shows a cruel reality:
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they are young black women, poor, who Vitória da Costa Caruso
live in peripheral areas, involved in drug OAB/DF
trafficking, and with early sexual devel- FESMPDFT
opment, some are pregnant or even
mothers. Many of them are involved
in the practice of crimes in the family
context, influenced by their guardians
or, in most cases, by their sexual partners, who exploit their bodies and their
work in exchange of protection from
other dealers. Young girls, who face a
difficult and uncertain life from an early
age, enter a system that deepens the
chasm between them and society. In
the Federal District units, there are few
interactions with others, limited time
on sunbathing, meals are simple, and
life is strict. Uncertainty, anxiety and
idleness reign. Suicide attempts are not
uncommon. Surely some of the girls,
after the confinement, get jobs or go to
college. However, they are a minority of
cases. Most girls who face the confinement in the Federal District rediscover
their routine practices on the street and
usually end up in prison as adults or
even return to the same establishment
months or days later. The institutionalization in adolescence is almost like a
preparation for what the future holds
for these young women. It is a perverse and degrading reality, in which
the feminine is bestialized to fit into an
archetype of survival socially designed
by and for men and reproduced in the
institutions that should mean a future
escape for these confined girls.
Keywords: Confinement, Female, Adolescent,
Federal District.
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EDUCATION FOR FREEDOM:
A STUDY OF FEMALE PRISIONS IN BRAZIL
Jéssica Cindy Kempfer
UNLBRA
& Regiane Nistler
UNESA
COIMBRA 2020
The implementation of a female
prison system in Brazil occurred late,
justified at the time by the low rate
of women incarcerated over the past
century, nevertheless this situation has
changed. The latest survey carried out
by the National Penitentiary Department indicated that the number of
women in prison hasgrown567.4% in
14years. This growth is almost three
times bigger than the one presented by
men. Most of these women are serving
time for involvement with drug trafficking. The majority of these women were
charged with and convicted as accomplices, such as transportation and sale
of small amounts of narcotics. All of
this is corroborated by the low education of the inmates, where the majority did not complete elementary school,
being subjected to underemployment
or male dependency. Because of that,
this research, which uses the deductive method, aims to analyze the profile of the female prison, pointing out
the relevance of education in women’s
autonomy in order to become one of the
main subjectsin the criminal prevention
process. To this end, the article begins
by the analysis of female prisons in a
historical and social context, to enter
the study of the profile of convicts and
finally to situate education, in Amartya Sen’s approach, as a process of
expansion of freedoms. Thus, this study
establishes the following problem: in
what proportion can women’s education
help reduce the number of prisoners?
As it is assumed that the high number of women who have their freedom
removed has a profile that involves
absence of school education, subjection
to underemployment and mainly male
dependency. It was noticed that historically the male perspective has always
prevailed in the prison context, which
was justified due to the much higher
volume of men inserted into the prison
system. Since they are a minority in
the system, women generally stay in
totally inappropriate units that fail to
contemplate the diverse characteristics of the female gender. Most women
in prison nowadays are young, black,
who already have children, and who
are responsible for the family support.
Besides, they have a low level of education, which led them to informal work
and, often, to trafficking. This data collection depicts the failures of the State
to present public policies to contain
crime and social inequalities, which, if
well designed and implemented, could
provide greater opportunities for these
marginalized classes of the Brazilian
population. Regarding that, the public
policy approach proposed by Amartya
Sen is connected to the importance of
the person and the need of having the
conditions for the development of capabilities. Variables connected to the condition of women as active agent directly
influence their well-being, especially the
potential of women to earn income and,
for that, to have access to education.
Access to education makes women better informed and qualified and only then
they can make full use of their capabilities. Higher schooling is the chance for
these women to acquiree formal job.
Furthermore, women also obtain more
active voice as they depend less on others, consolidating education along with
reducing female incarceration.
Keywords: Prison System, Female Prison,
Education; Freedom, Public Policy.
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REFLECTIONS ON EDUCATION FOR RESOCIALIZATION OF WOMEN
IN CHARGE IN THE PRISON UNIT OF BUBU, CARIACICA/ES:
A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OR DUTY?
The Brazilian prison system is full of
problems that interfere with the process of resocialization of the prisoner.
Among the various ways of working
on resocialization based on the Penal
Execution Law, the teaching and learning process is predominantly the most
present form in the various Brazilian
prisons, not necessarily because of
resocialization, but also because of
the reality of most of the prisoners,
usually without the most basic levels
of education. Taking the Female Penitentiary of Cariacica, State of Espírito
Santo, as a reference, this article aims
to investigate and analyze how the
formal education offered in that prison
facility contributes to the resocialization
of women in prison. The need to identify the perspective and perception of
these incarcerated subjects regarding
the formal education offered and what
is the influence on resocialization is the
problem that permeates the research.
To achieve the proposed objectives, the
method used in data collection included
bibliographic and legislative studies, in
doctrines, scientific articles, master’s
dissertations, doctoral theses and legislation in force, conducting quantitative
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and qualitative research, of deductive Rosana Julia Binda
reasoning, as well as conducting empir- FVC
ical data collection, through interviews & Roberto Fanti
with the interns who participate in the De Resende
educational project, which were chosen FVC
at random. As a result of the research,
it was found, on the one hand, that the
system offers formal education in veiled
and unofficial adaptation to the Fordist
model, in a new configuration of control
and discipline, linked to the discipline
system implemented in the researched
prison establishment, with the apparent
objective of “taming bodies”, in contrast
to the objectives proposed by the Brazilian educational program and, on the
other hand, that the interns perceive
education as the possibility of positive
contact with the outside world, as well
as a source of hope for days of freedom,
besides to be a pretext for the reduction of the penalty imposed, despite all
the problems encountered, which is not
necessarily a kind of resocialization.
Keywords: Education, Women, Prison,
Resocialization, Disciplining.
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“WOMEN, PRISON AND DRUG ADDICTION”
- THE REALITY OF WOMEN WITH DRUG ADDICTION
PROBLEMS IN ANDALUSIAN PRISONS (SPAIN)
Raúl Álvarez Pérez,
Concepción Mimbrero
Mallado
& Jesús Delgado Baena
Pablo de Olavide University
COIMBRA 2020
Historically, research on female incarceration has been scarce andittendsto
ignore gender as an explicit element
of influence (Romo, 2010). It is necessary to find evidence that helps tomake
visible andunderstandthe causes and
consequences of the incarceration
of women who suffer drug addiction
problems. According to the last General Report of the General Secretary
of Penitentiary Institutions, from 2018,
the prison population in the Penitentiary Centers dependent on the General
State Administration as of December
31, 2018 was 50,521 inmates. Of the
total number of prisoners, 3,846 were
women (7.6%). This article presents
part of the results of theinvestigation
carried out by the Pablo de Olavide
University in alliance with the Andalusian Federation ENLACE, from a gender
perspective and a critical approach to
human rights. The main objective is to
find out theinsightsof inmates and staff
who work in Andalusian prisons about
the situation of women with drug addiction problems.
Design of qualitative research of
inductive cut, without relying on previous hypotheses, following the General Inductive Theory. The in-depth
semi-structured interviewis usedas the
main research technique. The sample
has been made up of a total of 14 people: 10 Women with drug addiction
problems who have served sentences
in penitentiary centers and who have
been released or are in the third gradeof
incarcerationin the last year;and 4
members of the prison staff (linked to
the health services and care for drug
addicts) directly involved in the care of
women in prison. For the composition
of the sub-sample corresponding to
the women profile, variables such as:
age, gender, ethnicity, educational level,
economic level, habitat of origin, type of
substance consumed, and consumption
history have been considered.
The results obtained show the current situation in which the women
interviewed are in relation to health,
life trajectories linked to cause of incarceration, processes of adaptation to
the environment, socialrelationships
and self-considerationand institutions
organization. Part of the results coincide with those of other investigations
that point to consequences such as the
double stigma of women who use drugs
(Romo, 2005; Llort, Ferrando, Borrás,
& Purroy, 2013). Other contributions
reveal the invisibility of the situation
of women in terms of adaptation processes and the impact generated by
the organization of prisons on women’s
lives (Romo, 2005, De Miguel, 2016).
From the conclusions drawn, it should
be noted for its clarity and strength,from an emancipatory approach that
generates processes of human dignity,
that women with drug addiction problems who have been deprived of liberty
for crimes committed as a result of their
addiction have not found a process of
reeducation and reintegration in the
penitentiary centers. On the contrary,
their stay in prison has accentuated
the stigmatization processes already
suffered for being a woman, being a
drug dependent and for having been
in prison.
Keywords: Women, Drugs, Prisons,
Drug Addiction, Stigmatization.
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THE RELATION BETWEEN THE GROWTH
IN THE NUMBER OF FEMALE SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES
AND THE NUMBER OF WOMEN IMPRISONMENT IN BRAZIL
This article proposes to analyze the
current conjecture of Brazil in which it
was observed by the studies a relevant
growth in female single-parent families
combined with the observation that in
face of the situation in these families,
women are driven to crime and consequently to prison. Female single-parent
families with children are more “vulnerable” in economic terms, in food supplies and in the caring provided to the
children. In this way, families that are
headed by these women occur in these
circumstances, often allied to their
will and consequently the entering of
these women in world of crime, so their
imprisonment interferes in the whole
family. Therefore, we aim with this
article to establish a relation between
this increase in the number of families
headed by women and the increase of
women deprived of liberty. The theoretical and methodological support that
conducted this research is anchored in
the socioeconomic perspective, starting
from an investigation of incarcerated
women, the family situation and the
type of crime committed, since most
women do not commit violent crimes.
Within a qualitative approach, being
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the technical procedure adopted of a Deborah de Deus e Mello
descriptive-analytical character, carried FDUNL/Unifacol
out through analysis of bibliographic & Eglantina Souza e Silva
content and data. In this way, we will IGC University of Coimbra
discuss the socioeconomic reality of
incarcerated women, the family situation and how this situation affects the
committing of crime and, consequently,
incarceration. There would be a concrete relationship between two data, an
increase in the number of female single-parent families and because of that,
an increase in the number of incarcerated women? It appears that women in
situation of vulnerability are the majority among prisoners and considering the
circumstances they are arrested it stays
very clear the gender hierarchy in social
and prison environment which they are
subjected. In advance, we noticed that
there is a need to create more public policies that promote social justice
and greater support for families where
women are the main supporters in order
to minimize their possible entry into
theworld of crime.
Keywords: Female Single Parenting,
Female Imprisonment, Public Policy,
Human Rights.
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FEMALE INCARCERATION:
PATRIARCHAL INSTRUMENT FOR REAFFIRMATION
OF SOCIAL ROLES
Myrna Alves De Britto
UCAM
COIMBRA 2020
For critical criminology, prison as we
know it today, appears in history as a
form of social control of urban agglomerations caused by the surplus of
migrant labor from rural areas considered unsuitable for work; therefore, it is
an auxiliary institution to the factories.
The prison, in the case of women, surpasses the paradigm of the bourgeois
need to isolate idle and poor labor; it
goes further, crossing the poor, beggars, prostitutes, reaching even those
who lack male protection. Although
not a contribution of feminism, but
updated by him, the concept of patriarchy, reflects this ideology where the
woman, the feminine, is seen a inferior,
subordinate, dependent, subordinate,
in opposition to the man, masculine,
strong, superior, independent. Law,
showing itself to be essentially masculine, reverberates with the growing
machismo in society. The Penal System,
a system that legitimizes power, is a
selective system, which makes certain
behaviors selected to be punished, to
the detriment of others. The Penal System assumes, for women, its symbolic
character, seeking to occupy the role
of educator of society, reinforcing their
roles. The objective is to analyze the
increase in the female prison population
between the years 2000 and 2014, and
in a subsidiary, intersectional manner,
to verify the influence of the intrinsic
indices of this incarceration can affirm
the hypothesis of the use of incarceration as an instrument of patriarchal
domination. Descriptive research and
analysis of data obtained in the National
Survey of Penitentiary Information, with
a mixed approach through the inductive
method. The data obtained through the
dissemination of the National Survey of
Penitentiary Information, with a gender
perspective, focused on female crime,
namely: 67% are black, 57% are single, 89% are between 18 and 45 years
old (fertile age), 68% are in prison for
trafficking (crime socially attributed
to men). Despite representing 6.4%
of the national prison population, this
rate represents an increase of 567%
between the years 2000 and 2014.The
paradigm of incarceration alerts us that
the objective of female incarceration is
custody women unprotected by a man.
The leap in the female incarceration
index justifies the analysis of its intrinsic data in an intersectional way, “the
Criminal Justice system, therefore, at
the same time, reflects the social reality and competes for its reproduction.
“We can conclude that the institutions
of formal control of the penal system
turn their punishment and repression
to black women (for representing, historically, breadwinners and absence of
fragility -they dare to take the place of
men), single (do not live a traditional
family or have abandoned ), of childbearing age, but without children (they
violate the rules of the must-be of their
social role, of their gender, with self-determination over their body), who are
somehow involved in trafficking (an
activity socially attributed to men).
Keywords: Incarceration, Female, Patriarchal.
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WOMEN IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW:
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS, JURIDICAL AND SOCIAL
OF EMOTIONAL ABANDONMENT IN THE FEMALE PRISONS IN BRAZIL
The present investigation presents
preliminary discussions of ongoing
research on the legal, psychological
and social aspects of the emotional
abandonment of incarcerated women.
According to data from the National
Penitentiary Department (Depen) published in June 2020, Brazil had 748,009
people deprived of their liberty in all
regimes, of which about 36,929 were
women. Also, according to data from
Depen, between the years 2000 and
2017 there was an increase of 675% in
the female prison population in Brazil.
The State of Paraná, in turn, according to Depen data, in June 2020 had
a prison population of 29,831 people, of which about 5%, that is, 1,594
were women. Initially, a bibliography
review was carried out on the subject
of emotional abandonment of incarcerated women, as well as the collection
of quantitative data for the purpose of
identifying the female prison population profile. Aligning itself with the field
of qualitative approach, the research
corpus consists of 10 semi-structured
interviews with women in situations of
incarceration. In this sense, the interviews were conducted with women in
units in the city of Curitiba and Metropolitan Region, in the state of Paraná.
The objective of the research is to
understand the subjects’ experiences
in their environments and complexities.
Starting from a hermeneutic approach,
we seek a participatory and dialogical
understanding of the meanings of the
experiences lived by women incarcerated with regard to affective aspects
and their impacts on the processes
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of subjectivation, constitution of their Tais Martins,
subjectivities and psychological effects. UniBrasil, Unifaesp
The dynamics of motherhood in the Andressa Ignácio da Silva
prison environment also gain impor- Unifaesp, UFPR
tance. Motherhood is a moment and a & Andréa Arruda Vaz
state. Far beyond birth, because it lasts UniBrasil, Unifaesp
a woman’s entire life. The same is true,
albeit to a lesser extent, to the children,
who receive life, food, a first socialization from it. The drama of the children
of the prison system results from the
endemic paternal absence, as well as
the construction of an identity based
on the paradigm of darkness and the
horrifying coldness that is the prison
system. The emotional abandonment of
partners and family members in relation to incarcerated women and their
children may cause psychological consequences. In addition, in many cases,
non-recognition by the father and family is a trauma and stigma that marks
different spheres of the child’s life. The
psychological effects of abandonment
impact incarcerated women, their children and spread through society in a
forceful and often ignored way. In this
sense, the research presented here can
contribute to the visibility of this reality,
as well as in the planning of actions
to confront the identified problems and
public policies for this population. The
methodology used in the construction of
the article will be the quantitative, qualitative, empirical, descriptive research
and interviews with women prisoners.
Keywords: Women, Prison System, Maternity,
Right, Psychology.
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GENDER, RACE, SOCIAL CLASS, WOMEN AND PRISONS
Alba Maria de França
Unit/Al
Uncisal
COIMBRA 2020
Aspects related to violence, public
security, human rights, marginalities,
social policies and the prison system
are in fact of immediate importance
for discussions and confrontations,
however, they still refract the focus of
analysis only on visible and superficial
demands for effects and consequences
of social inequality. This study is a production of the Gender Studies discipline
from the stricto sensu Postgraduate
course (Doctorate) in Society, Technologies and Public Policies, and aims
to reflect on gender, race, social class
and women in prison. An exploratory
study was carried out, with reflective
analysis around the relations of gender, race and social class and how these
categories are represented and related
to women in prison. Scientific productions on the theme were used as data
sources, as well as data from InfoPen
Women (2018) on the profile of women
in prison. In Brazil, there was a rate of
40.6 women prisoners for each group
out of 100,000 women. Incarcerated
women suffer even more discrimination due to socially constructed gender
roles, come to be seen as socially and
biologically maladjusted, since they did
not only violate penal rules, but mainly
in relation to the expectations imposed
on them in relation to traditional gender
roles. As for the profile of women in
the prison system, socio-demographic
aspects were verified compared to the
demands of the population considered
free, as well as, identified the profile
of the crimes affected by them. It was
possible to observe that the female
prison population in Brazil is up to 29
years old, the North and Northeast
regions present the highest percentages of this age group. They did not
access high school, and the Northeast
of the country possesses the highest
rates. There are about 62 black women
in prison for every group of 100,000
free black women. Although prisoners
are an object of growing interest among
researchers in the national prison system, black women have not appeared
in their discussions, even though they
are the main group of prisoners in the
country. Drug trafficking is the main
crime. The complex sociability network
of drug trafficking is also governed, for
the most part, by the subordination of
affection relationships with partners, as
a consequence, women become more
deeply involved in the practices of trafficking and are even arrested. And, the
demands that were most related to the
aspects studied relate to structural problems that drive family distance, make
it difficult to exercise their sexuality,
issues related to gender violence and
vulnerability, and these directly interfere in post-prison. It can be seen from
the data in question that the number
of women in prison has grown. These
are, in their majority, young, black, with
low education level, with unstable marital situation and that the main crimes
attributed are related to drug trafficking,
ratifying the vulnerability in the relations of gender, social class and the race
that involves the prison issue.
Keywords: Gender, Social Class, Continental
Population Groups, Women, Prisons.
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RACE, GENDER AND INTERSECTIONALITY:
BLACK FEMINISM AND DIALOGUE BETWEEN RIGHT
AND SOCIOLOGY IN THE ANALYSIS OF WOMAN
IN THE BRAZILIAN PRISON
This research has as object the contributions of black feminism and possible dialogues between Sociology
and Law to understanding about the
situation of the woman in the Brazilian prison system. The research parts
of one data collection quantitative to
identify the profile of the female prison
population of the Brazil, as well as
critical bibliographic review about the
mechanisms of social control, crime and
prison system. In the field of Sociology,
the crime and the forms of social control are object of analysis of Sociology,
since the thought of the classic authors.
The theory of Max Weber (1999) reinforces Modern Law how fruit of one
rationalization’s process that substitute other ways in the solution of the
interest conflicts like violence. In this
way, the Law consolidates guidelines
and rational parameters to be applies
in the social relationships, acting as one
control’s mechanism. Already for Marx
and Engels (2007) the State action and
the Law in the guardianship and protection of private property and the crime
can be understood how one fruit of the
conditions of the class society. According to data of National Penitentiary
Department (Depen –Departamento
Penitenciário Nacional in Portuguese)
published in July of 2020, the Brazil had
748.009 people deprived of liberty in all
regimes, of which 36.929 were women.
According to Depen too, between the
years 2000 and 2017 there was an
increase of 675% in the female prison
population in the Brazil. In the research
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made by Institute Land, Work and Citi- Andressa Ignácio da Silva,
zenship, launched by Observatory of 3º Unifaesp, UFPR
section in 2019, evidenced that 68% of Andréa Arruda Vaz
Brazilian imprisoned women are black. UniBrasil, Unifaesp
In this sense considered that the the- & Tais Martins
oretical productions of black feminism UniBrasil, Unifaesp
add to overcome omissions and existing
distortions in the sociological productions and the legal field about the thematic of the prison and justice system.
The black feminism is understood here,
in the suggested terms by Patrícia Hill
Collins (1986, 2000, and 2012), what
is it like a set of ideas made by black
women that exposes a point of view to
black women from one black woman
and proposes approaches that prioritize
intersections of the gender oppressions,
race, class and sexuality. Concludes
preliminarily that the concept of intersectionality can contribute to news ways
of interpretations of social relationships.
In reference of field of Law this concept, as well as contributions of black
feminism, can still launch light on the
dynamics interwoven in contemporary
inequalities that affect the black women
in the Brazilian prison system. One can
still glimpse the role of Law in the maintenance of discrimination reproduction
processes and racial violence and the
genre, especially against the women
in conflict with the Law. In view that
the processing system, judgment and
condemnation is selective, uneven and
at all violator of rights and guarantees.
Keywords: Race, Gender, Intersectionality,
Prison System, Law.
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IMPROVING PRISON STAFF AWARENESS AND SKILLS
IN DEALING WITH MENTALLY ILL INMATES THROUGH
DISTANCE LEARNING:
FINDINGS FROM THE MENACE INITIAT
Vítor Costa,
University of Beira Interior
Pedro Liberado,
Innovative Prison Systems
Catarina Abrunhosa,
Innovative Prison Systems
Graça Esgalhado
Innovative Prison Systems
& Ana Cunha
University of Beira Interior
COIMBRA 2020
Addressing the high rates of mental
illness among inmates is recognized
as a challenging task for prison staff.
This paper, presenting results from a
European project, presents a possible response through an innovative
approach to prison staff training needs
on this subject. According to the Penal
Reform International, when it comes to
mental health and the prison context,
over 11 million people are incarcerated
worldwide, of which half suffer from a
daily struggle with personality disorders, with 1 out of 7 inmates facing a
serious mental health condition. Beyond
the steadily growing concentration of
the mentally ill in prisons, it is widely
acknowledged that being in prison
contributes to the exacerbation of an
already poor mental health. Prison staff,
particularly prison officers, are usually
the first point of contact for prisoners
with mental health concerns. Despite
the fact they are not expected to diagnose specific disorders or to fulfill the
duties of mental health professionals,
their responses to inmates’ worries and
their attentiveness to early detection
are crucial to prevent minor issues from
escalating into more serious incidents.
Considering the necessity of prison staff
training on how to handle mentally ill
inmates, the MenACE project developed and implemented a training programme comprising six modules that
could be delivered via distance education. One of the modules covered the
subject of mental health in prisons. The
training course was piloted following a
b-learning approach by incorporating
classroom-based sessions, as well as a
Training of Trainers course for sustainability purposes, to upscale participants’
competencies. The sample of this study
(N = 133) comprised psychologists,
psychiatrists, and other medical staff
working in prisons. Overall, the course
used a mixed-methods approach by
collecting quantitative and qualitative
data. The results emphasized positive
views from the participants in all evaluation indicators, but most notably, it
was stressed that the programme met
practitioners’ learning needs and was
pertinent to their professional exercise. However, for future improvement,
participants recommended making the
course available in other languages as
it will foster trainee’s understanding
on the scrutinized content as well as
providing a text version to study outside the online environment and consolidate previously acquired knowledge.
Distance learning enables penitentiary
institutions to improve staff’s expertise
and abilities without incurring additional
financial and human capital expenses,
by embedding an e-learning course
within staff training plans. This specific
e-learning course proved to be successful in enhancing the ability of staff
to early identify, intervene and report
mental disorders. Achieving competencies in all three procedural processes is
essential to mitigate the ongoing rise of
psychiatric disorders in prisons and to
eliminate their potentially well-known
and harmful consequences.
Keywords: Mental Health, Prison,
Distance Learning, Prison Staff, Training.
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RESPONSIBILITY OF FATHERS AND MOTHERS FOR THEIR CHILDREN:
VIEW OF PRISONERS AND CHANGES IN POSITION
The article deals with the experience
of the Reading Project carried out in the
Presidio of Itabira, Minas Gerais, implemented within the scope of doctoral
studies carried out in the Postgraduate Program in Education at PUC-Minas.
The case study carried out with data
from participant observation, with 29
inmates presents the Reading Project
and the organization of the didactic
sequence carried out with the text As
Hands of my son, by Érico Veríssimo.
The article has as specific objectives to
demonstrate the participants’ view of
the different participants in the responsibility for the education of their children
and to verify possible changes of position due to the discussions held in the
specific didactic sequence. It presents
local socio-demographic data compared
to the national survey carried out by
the National Penitentiary Department.
A survey of the positions recorded in
the 28 written reviews produced at
the end of the didactic sequence was
carried out. The qualitative bias critical analysis methodology was adopted.
Successive readings identify categories
to be examined and compared from the
written speeches of the Reading Project participants themselves. We tried
to identify conceptual changes in the
positions initially defended, on the
issue at hand: the symmetry or asymmetry between fathers and mothers
about the responsibility of their children. The positions of two participants
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in the Reading Project are described in Luciane Maria Santos
greater detail and how the reflection & Carlos Roberto Cury
process that occurred during the dis- Catholic Pontifical University
cussions and readings of the texts has of Minas Gerais
repercussions on the students’ writing, the perception of the world, and
themselves. Global development of
the re-educating is perceived by the
change in the sense of learning evidenced in the produced texts and oral
participation during the activities. The
Reading Project contributes as an educational activity to individuals deprived
of their freedom, preparing them for
their return to society. It is concluded
that important reflections, changes of
position occurred and the positions of
recognition of the asymmetry with the
mother’s overload in the responsibility
on the education of the children prevailed. The positions identified with the
recognition that fathers and mothers
should have the same responsibility to
care for and provide for their children
were also dominant.
Keywords: Reading Project in Prisons,
Remission for Reading, Right to Education,
Responsibility of Father and Mother.
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ANALYSIS OF A LEARNING TRAJECTORY NARRATIVE
Carlos Roberto Cury
& Luciane Maria Santos
Catholic Pontifical University
of Minas Gerais
COIMBRA 2020
This article linked to the field of
research in education and its links
with the elements that make up a new
conception History: subjects, research
objects, data sources from the narratives of people affected by the issues
that make up the educational trajectory,
little present in classical studies of contemporary education. It is one of the
tasks of the pilot phase of a multiple
case study carried out in the Graduate
Program in Education of the Pontifical
Catholic University of Minas Gerais. The
object is to understand the learning
trajectory of people with experience
of deprivation of liberty and history
of participation in the Reading Project at the Itabira Prison, Minas Gerais.
The research project briefly presented
in the stage pilot of which this interview anchored. Then, clippings from
the narrative of one of the deponents
of the pilot stage it is discussed. That
aspects emerge from your memories
about life school, revisiting the family’s social difficulties, relationships with
school professionals, and disciplining as
an effect of symbolic violence of the
school subsumed by the subject and
on his problems in perceiving his own
identity. The case study used contributions from Oral History to collect the
narratives of memories of the experiences of the early school years of people who experienced privation of liberty,
participants in the Reading Project of
the Presidio of Itabira, Minas Gerais.
Research studies in sociology at the
Chicago school guided the methodological elaboration of empirical and qualitative research. The analysis sought
the effects of public education policies
based on the perception of the citizens
to whom they should be direct, to give
the meaning achieved and not achieved,
in the face of the contemporary prison
scenario presented from the Brazilian
legislative bases. The description of the
Reading Project was compared to the
concept to make it possible to visualize the elements of the total institution
in the daily life of the Reading Project.
We sought to reveal the educational
social experience from the narratives
of memories of some participants in the
Reading Project of the Itabira prison.
The past evoked, as the investigation
hears people with experiences of deprivation of liberty narrating their stories
and their trajectories. The possibility
of composing the identity of the subjects surveyed, highlighting subjectivity,
verifying the applicability of public policies were dimensions compared to the
research. The results showed the relevance of educational actions such as the
Reading Project as well as the fragility
of the effectiveness of public policies in
reaching the most economically fragile
extracts. It also reveals the difficulties
in the school monitoring of families.
The effects reflect on the permanence
and school success of children in the
initial years of schooling. Reflect also
about the role that the concept of early-formed discipline acquires in forming
the identity of the person interviewed.
Keywords: School Trajectories, Memory,
School Narratives.
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DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN IN THE SPANISH PRISON SYSTEM
This paper makes a bibliographical
review of the lives of women in Spanish prisons, analyzing what and how
the Spanish penitentiary system has
evolved. Most criminology literature
focuses on male research. Throughout
history, prison regulations, criminological policy and the judicial system have
been formulated and elaborated under
an androcentric vision. The present
study tries to show that prisons in Spain
are configured (and configured also in
the past) as structures that contribute
to the perpetuation of differential gender roles between men and women and
as spaces that produce greater discriminatory effects on women. As second
object of the study, we focus on feminism and gender criminology, analyzing the profile of women in prison and
the consequences of their living behind
bars. As a society, we focus on and
judge only the “criminal woman”, but
rarely do we understand the psychological and sociological profile that led
to the delinquency of women. Among
the factors that are emphasized, most
women are identified as coming from
a socio-economic environment of vulnerability or at risk of exclusion and
with high unemployment rates and
were victims of gender-based violence,
indeed. This provides an explanation of
why the most common criminal conduct
among them is often economic offenses
(property, public health or property
offenses). Moreover, women prisoners must bear a double stigma: firstly,
as women and, secondly, as prisoners,
they experience greater discrimination Francisco Antonio Díaz
than men from incarceration to reinte- University of Sevilla
gration into society. An added barrier is & Alma Villaseñor Rodríguez
the social rejection for not having ful- Autonomous University of Nayarit
filled the role expected of her (exclusively that of woman, mother and main
responsible for the family) based on the
aforementioned stereotypes. There is a
shortage of exclusively female prisons,
which forces them to serve sentences
far from their immediate emotional
environment, or to live in separate male
prisons which, generally speaking, they
are limited in space and lack specific
activities for them. In addition, these
specific activities keep highlighting stereotypes of women in our society. Most
of the programs are designed to protect their status as mothers, but not to
promote their autonomy through work
specialization, daily physical activity
or cultural development. On the other
hand, occupational activities tend to
be associated with housework (cooking, laundry and cleaning), work that is
notoriously less qualified and less well
paid, thus reproducing the differential
gender roles. The above-mentioned
factors contribute to the greater difficulty for women of subsequent social
reintegration, increasing the risk of
recidivism. Lastly, we study the social
perception of the Spanish population,
with regard to women in prison, analyzing with attention the role played by
small and medium-sized enterprises in
the recruitment of women prisoners for
reintegration into the community.
Keywords: Gender, Discrimination, Perception,
Prisons, Women.
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WOMEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
Lorena Collados Torres
& Alberto Pintado Alcázar
University of Murcia
COIMBRA 2020
Within prison systems, the percentage of inmates in a prison for committing a crime has very low rates, which
represents in Spain 7% / 8% of the
total number of inmates in all Spanish
prisons. As you can see, the rate of men
in prison, 92% / 93%, is much higher
than that of women, a fact that would
be directly related to the higher crime
rate for men. In this sense, we consider
that it is essential to carry out an investigation on the main causes that determine the entry of women into prison,
establishing various variables that could
help to create a criminal profile of these
criminals. For this, we consider it essential to study the personal characteristics
of the inmates, analyzing data such as:
age, marital status, number of children
and place of residence, or educational
level, among other variables. On the
other hand, we consider essential to
carry out a study related to the criminal circumstances of these people, with
special emphasis on the following variables: crimes committed or prison sentences imposed. However, as we have
previously mentioned, the incidence
of women in prison has always been
lower than that of men, so it could be
argued that these data are not new. On
the other hand, female inmates have
always been the great forgotten ones in
prison studies, and the few percentages
indicated above are a determining factor. For all these reasons, we consider
it essential to proceed to the analysis of
female inmates in Spanish penitentiary
centers, since the results obtained will
provide relevant information, which can
be considered vital to carry out future
research related to this topic. Therefore, the objective of the study is to
deepen not only the personal variables,
but also those attributed to the context
and social reality of these women, who
can define the profile of the inmates
from a generic differential perspective.
Keywords: Prison, System, Women.
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FORMAL, NON-FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION IN PRISON:
A MATTER OF INCLUSION OR EXCLUSION?
The prison has been considered for
decades as a centralized environment
due to the prejudice towards the subjects who have entered this context for
the commission of some type of criminal
action. Following the study coordinated
by De la Herrán, Valle and Villar (2020),
it is necessary to reflect on the situation
we find in Spanish prisons in relation to
the comprehensive education of these
people deprived of liberty. The objective of this research is to delimit the
educational and formative reality that
prisons have in Spain, attending not
only to normative education, closer to
the readmission of these individuals as
citizens who require behavioral modulation. It is about transforming a teaching
and learning process that sets out a
pedagogical model endorsed by a real
inclusion of prisoners to really achieve
a common good. For this, it is essential to house the essential pillars that
must shape the treatment of inmates
in penitentiary centers, which must
consider the role of formal, non-formal
and informal education in their comprehensive reintegration. Socio-educational intervention will not be effective
if only presenteeism and the current
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situation of these people are valued. Lorena Collados Torres
To truly work the terms of exclusion University of Murcia
and inclusion in prison, inmates must
start a program that is tailored to their
needs, in addition to assessing the real
difficulties that they have and present
from entering to leaving these centers
after serving their sentence. imposed.
In addition, it is vitally important to
eliminate the conventionalism acquired
in these environments and the climate
of pessimism in achieving the proposed
objectives. It is not possible to speak
of the total inclusion of these people in
society, unless there is a change in the
methodology that works in these contexts and that requires the characteristics of the formal and academic system,
as well as the non-formal one, which It
is constituted as a complement to the
previous and the informal one, which
takes into account the development of
skills that configure the subject from a
global perspective.
Keywords: Education, Exclusion, Inclusion,
Prison.
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Ref.: 148M12020
WOMAN INCARCERATED IN PRISON SPACES
Thaís Melo de Souza
Higher Institute of Social and Political
Sciences - University of Lisbon
COIMBRA 2020
Although prisons and the legal system operate in different ways in each
country, the bases of the prison system have characteristics in common,
mainly because it’s a model created
by cisgender men and for cisgender
men. However, male prisoners’ bodies
are not the only to be affected by this
system, and the existence of gender
inequalities in the different contexts
surrounding prison is evident. Therefore, thinking of prison as a democratic
space becomes inconceivable once
there is actually a standardization of
the incarcerated people profile, marked
by class and ethnicity. The prison space
is created to correspond to patriarchal-white-cisgender norms, reinforcing
gender, economic and social inequalities, it becomes incompatible to define
it as “democratic”, in its literal meanings. Built on those considerations, the
research I have carried on approaches
women’s incarceration and the gender
inequalities present in the different
contexts that involve prison. The main
objective is to analyze how the social,
legal and scientific apparatus linked to
the prison system and gender inequalities are expressed in each of these
contexts. Gender markers are intrinsic
to the legal and penal system and to
prison institutions and their dynamics
in general, from the denomination of
prison establishments, in which gender is only specified as “male prisons”
/ “female prisons”, but mainly within
prison dynamics, scientific studies and
public policies. There is a double penalty
for women prisoners, even worse if they
are mothers, precisely because they do
not correspond to the gender norms that
are part of the judicial system’s base.
These penalties can be seen in the vulnerability of these inmates, in the precariousness of the spaces facing them;
in the lack of basic hygiene products;
in the absence of school education and
sex education. Through a historical perspective, it’s possible to show that there
is a problem linked to gender issues
that exist also in studies on the incarceration of women. In several areas
of study, scientific research on women
in the prison context -being a theme
that has been absent from science for
many decades -reserved the space for
victims to women, and when approaching women inmates, they started from
comparative analyzes with the results
achieved in studies on the incarceration of men. Therefore, this theoretical research constitutes a bibliographic
review for the master’s thesis that I am
currently developing and focuses on
surveying and analyzing investigations
that deal with prisons, female crime,
the incarceration of women. I seek to
analyze the studies that address these
contexts in order to identify how gender
markers present themselves and how
they enhance gender inequality, exclusion and silencing female prisoners. To
highlight the gender perspectives present in prison spaces, it is also a way of
providing changes in the development
of public policies and in scientific studies that address the theme, and can
help to raise awareness of the problems of mass incarceration of women, in
overcrowding the prisons and the inefficiency of the actions provided by them.
Keywords: Gender Stereotypes,
Imprisonment of Women, Prison System.
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EUROPEAN INVESTIGATION ORDER:
GROUNDS FOR NON-RECOGNAITION OR NON-EXECUTION
AND THE ISSUE OF GUARANTEES IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
One of the most important objectives
of the European Union (EU) refers to
the maintenance and development
of an area of freedom, security, and
justice. The European Investigation
Order (EIO) was adopted by Directive
2014/41/EU pursuant to section I of
Article 82 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union regarding
judicial cooperation in criminal matters.
The EIO is a unique judicial instrument
designed to facilitate cross-border criminal investigations based upon the principle of mutual recognition of judicial
decisions and mutual legal assistance
and it is primarily applicable to criminal
proceedings. Depending on the national
law regulations, the issuing authority in
such matters may be a judge, a court,
an investigating judge or public prosecutor in order to have one or more investigative measures executed in another
Member State of the EU. An EIO can be
issued for numerous types of offences.
These include illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs; weapons; stolen vehicles;
corruption; organised or armed robbery; participation in a criminal organization; computer-related crimes; and
others. It covers the gathering of different types of evidence including hearing
of suspects, witnesses and/or victims;
monitoring of bank accounts; conducting searches; collecting items, etc. The
EIO must include information relative to
the issuing authority and persons concerned, the object of and the reason for
it, a description of the criminal act and
of the investigative measures requested
as well as the evidence to be obtained.
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However, the EIO may only be issued Mário Simões Barata
under the following conditions: necessary and proportional to the objective
pursued; the investigative measures
indicated in the EIO could be ordered
in a similar domestic case. There are
numerous advantages associated with
the EIO. Firstly, it creates a single comprehensive instrument. Secondly, it
sets strict deadlines for gathering the
evidence requested. Thirdly, it limits
the reasons for refusing such requests.
Fourthly, it protects the fundamental
rights of the defense. Lastly, it simplifies and accelerates the transnational
exchange of evidence. The directive
as well as the national implementing
legislation also discipline the grounds
for non-recognition or non-execution
of an EIO. These include immunity or
privilege under the law of the executing State; national security interests;
principle of ne bis in idem; territory;
compliance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
non punishable offence in the law of
the executing State; legal restrictions
regarding the investigative measure.
This article seeks to analyze the various
grounds for non-execution of an EIO
that were adopted in the directive as
well as the relevant decisions from the
Court of Justice of the European Union,
and particular emphasis will be placed
upon a perspective that stresses the
guarantees in criminal procedure.
Keywords: European Union, Criminal
Procedure, Investigative Measure,
Non-Execution, Fundamental Rights.
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Ref.: 170M22020
PREVENTING TORTURE IN PRISON:
THE JURISPRUDENCE LINE OF THE INTER-AMERICAN
COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ROLE OF PREVENTING
AND COMBATING
Arnelle Rolim Peixoto
GEDAI/UNINASSAU
& Miriam Gomez Romero
University College of Dublin
COIMBRA 2020
The main aim of this work is to analyze the jurisprudential line of the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
in relation to the prevention and fight
against torture. The practice of torture
affects not only the physical and mental integrity, but also the dignity of the
victim, turns out to be one of the most
serious violations of Human Rights. It is
undeniable that the practice of torture
remains high until the present day even
supported by various instruments. Environments where people are deprived of
their liberty, are the most likely places
for this type of practice to occur, so it
is undeniable the importance of protection systems at international level as
they can judge cases when the State
remains unresponsive, in this study we
will focus especially on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding to
this matter. In this situation, the Court’s
action is extremely relevant, since it
has been built a rich line of jurisprudence in terms of shaping strategies to
prevent and combat torture. To make
this analysis, the methodology used
will be a bibliographic research with
a deductive method and a qualitative
and exploratory approach in which both
Inter-American Court doctrine, international instruments and jurisprudence
will be used. Human rights are not only
a matter under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State but also, they are a
legitimate concern of the international
community, which has been engaged in
the setting of standards, the establishment of implementation mechanisms
and the monitoring of compliance with
the standards. As stated in different
reports regarding the minimum standards of UN rules for treatment of
prisoners, the Inter American Court
of Human Rights recognizes that Even
though the Standard Minimum Rules
continue to be vital and are considered
to be among the most important softlaw instruments for the interpretation of
various aspects of the rights of prisoners, it may be important to adjust their
content to the current challenges faced
by the different States in respecting and
ensuring the human rights of persons
deprived of liberty, to the up-to-date
standards of international human rights
law, and to the progress reached by
other disciplines related to this field.
Keywords: Torture, Inter-American Court
of Human Rights, Prevention, Combat.
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ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH
IN INPATIENT INSTITUTIONS
In view of the growing tendency to
institutionalize teaching in research ethics with human subjects, in particular
those interned due to alleged deviant
behavior in inpatient institutions, the
need arises to understand and explain
the reasons and expectations regarding the past and the future that intend
to achieve. The need also emerges to
assess the perception of others in relation to these members of contemporary
societies. This public presentation discusses the impacts that the prospective
regulation of research projects has had
on the social sciences and, more specifically, the potential challenges that it
has posed to academic research. Based
on a historical review, both of the origin of the ethical regulation of research
and of the social sciences, we analyze
what constitutes ethics in sociological
practice, highlighting the in commensurabilities that this type of research
has found in theoretical models based
on ethics academic research in inpatient
institutions. Increasingly, ethics in academic research has been an object of
interest for scholars and non-scholars
alike, since the validity of the results
obtained in favor of the study path
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has to be a well-founded path and the Carla Maria de Bastos
founder of the righteousness of those Borrões
who explore possibilities and perspec- Aberta University
tives the realities under analysis and
the social interest. Acting with integrity
and probity in data collection and content analysis is essential for the scrutiny of the academy that is based on
the meritocracy of constructed knowledge and to build and change the look
of paradigms rooted by the passage
of time in the standards of normality
or social abnormality. Through notions
such as the notion of risk or the primacy
of the principle of informed consent, it
is illustrated how an understanding of
research may not be unanimous with
humans, which is reducing to scientific
research, of a qualitative nature, substantially differentiating the research
possible to carry out in exact or mathematical sciences.
Keywords: Ethics, Academic Research,
Inpatient Institutions, Risk, Informed Consent.
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Ref.: 255M22020
ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN PRISON
Sérgio Maneiras Laranjinho
& Carla de Bastos Borrões
Aberta University
COIMBRA 2020
Academic research, in a prison context, is fundamental for the development of public policies that represent
the decision-making of contemporary
states and that can promote and disseminate the security and emotional
balance of victims and alleged convicted offenders. In the production of
academic knowledge, there are innumerable ethical dilemmas and precepts
that must be repeatedly safeguarded,
under penalty of being able to promote
the legitimation of a context of repeated
victimization and without real scrutiny.
The experience of reviewing and reinventing a given situation of victimization
can have very harmful and unfocused
effects, which can interfere and condition the real ability of victims to decide
to participate in an investigation. Thus,
based on the evidence collected through
targeted interviews, around the real
impact of violence and crime on victims, in this presentation, we intend to
identify, list, contextualize and recommend some of the main ethical issues
underlying scientific production in this
field, identifying some of the care and
good practices to be implemented and
monitored later. Never as in the days we
live in, ethics is so debated by scholars
and curious, although in ancient times
this is not foreign to the claims of those
who own rhetoric and orality in favor of
the public scrutiny of those who know
the academy. The validity of the writings comes from reading through peers
and sifting through agreements with the
standards underlying the dictates that
the academy considers to be respectful
of the globality of its originating writers -it is urgent to know whether, in
prison context, this appears distinctive
of other contexts in other sciences. The
tolerance of the new and the re-creation
of guidelines considered necessary or
even essential for carrying out a quality and worthwhile investigation and
susceptible of modifying or even ruling
out any damage that it may cause to
its participants and direct interveners
of the infractions allegedly committed
by those who live in the prison context.
Keywords: Academic Research, Victims
of Crimes, Violence, Prison Context, Ethic.
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THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF BRAZILIAN PRISON SYSTEM
AND VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS BY BRAZIL:
ANALYSIS FROM PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE N.888-19
WITH PROCEDURE BEFORE THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION
ON HUMAN RIGHTS
The research will present the analysis of precautionary no. 888-19, which
is pending before the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights and will
address the Brazilian prison system from
the analysis of Precautionary Measure
N.888-19, which is pending before the
Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights, in which Brazil was denounced
for violating the Human Rights. The
methodology used in the analysis of
the decision is the quantitative, qualitative and descriptive research in the
analysis of decision by International
Court. The Brazilian Constitution, in its
article 5, brings several fundamental
rights that must be observed in relation
to all individuals, including those who
serve deprivation of liberty, preserving
the dignity of their human person. It is
evident that the prisoner, deprived of
his freedom as a form of punishment
for criminal practice, has the right to
life and must be treated with dignity.
The State is responsible for providing
this minimally dignified treatment to
the prisoner. However, this is not the
reality faced by the prison population
of the Jorge Santana Public Prison, Rio
de Janeiro, in precautionary measure
888/2019, brought before the International Commission on Human Rights. In
September 2019, the State Mechanism
for Preventing and Combating Torture
in Rio de Janeiro and the Center for
the Penitentiary System of the Public
Defender of the State of Rio de Janeiro
presented this precautionary measure
to the International Commission, so
that it could express its opinion on
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the situation of urgency that involved Andréa Arruda Vaz
protecting the rights of prisoners in Unibrasil/Unifaesp
that prison. Prison overcrowding and & Ana Renata Bueno
lack of health care for prisoners was Machado
reported. The International Commis- Unifacear
sion on Human Rights asked Brazil for
information on the said prison premises, being informed that the penalties
and precautionary measures alternative to prison are prioritized, pursuant
to Article 319 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, especially with regard to disabled or mutilated prisoners and those
with fractures or other serious health
problems N view of this, the Commission, which had already visited the said
penitentiary unit in loco, in November
2018, made evident the need for the
injunction to be granted, in view of the
provisions of Article 25 of its Regulations, which provide for the possibility
of granting the imposed measure to the
State to prevent irreparable damage to
prisoners in their custody. Overcrowded
prisons create another serious problem,
the destruction of the prison environment, accelerating its deterioration,
which would be caused gradually over
time, making the environments increasingly unhealthy. Brazil contradicts the
American Convention on Human Rights,
of which it is a signatory, by keeping
prisoners without minimum standard
conditions for re-socialization. The
precautionary measure studied here
demonstrates this.
Keywords: Prison, Brazil, Human Rights.
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Ref.: 167M22020
PERINATAL PSYCHOLOGY AS A BASIS
IN MATERNAL-INFANT MENTAL HEALTH CARE
INTO A FEMALE PENITENTIARY IN BRAZIL
Paulo Eugenio Ferreira
Rocha
University of Anhaguera – Unit Taubaté
COIMBRA 2020
This research originated from the
author’s experience as a psychology
intern at the Feminine Penitentiary II in
Tremembe city, located in the countryside of the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
This prison is recognized for having been
the first penitentiary in Latin America
created and adapted specifically for
the reclusion of women. According to
the World Health Organization (WHO),
among the three major critical periods
in which women can go through their
life cycle - puberty, perinatal and climacteric - it is exactly in the perinatal
period where they are more likely to
show significant emotional changes and
mental illnesses, being also the period
where there is an increase of number
of women’s psychiatric hospitalizations.
When a pregnancy happens within
the serving time of an inmate in the
prison system, the typical emotional
changes of the prenatal period add up
to the already established conflict of
serving a sentence of freedom deprivation.
Among the several particularities
that need to be observed in this context, what the mother suffers from the
imminent separation between her and
her child, distress and anxiety should
be addressed, especially when the
limit pre-established by law is reached.
There is also the issue of hypermaternity and hypomaternity, which refers to
the dichotomous relationship that this
woman has with motherhood exercised
in prison. After deliberations with the
psychology team of the prison mentioned, an action plan was developed
for the implementation of a personalized Psychological Prenatal (PNP), in
dialogue with the reality of the prison
system. This plan was defined in two
main stages: individual assistance to
pregnant women and application of
questionnaires at three different times
- each corresponding to a trimester of
pregnancy. For its construction, an interpretative approach was made based on
Perinatal Psychology, an area of psychology that deals with the psychological phenomena surrounding pregnancy,
and the Theory of Attachment, responsible for bringing to light the importance
of the quality of the mother-child bond,
baby and its impacts on the individual’s
future life.
However, the implementation analysis showed that the PNP had limitations in view of the demands that went
beyond the prenatal period. The need to
expand what could be achieved with the
PNP resulted in the initiative to develop
the “Maternal and Child Psychological
Health Program in Prison” (PSPMIC),
which is being structured on three pillars: Psychological Prenatal; Groups of
Mothers and Pregnant Women; evaluation of development and intervention
with babies. Above all, this present
work is an investigative research, in
order to think about new interventions
that can help in the construction of a
tool focused on the prevention and care
of the mental health of mothers and
babies, guaranteeing constitutional
rights regarding the health of incarcerated women and children.
Keywords: Attachment Theory, Mothers in Jail,
Perinatal Psychology, Psychological Prenatal.
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PROMOTING RESTORATIVE JUSTICE:
JUVENILE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND ITS ROLE
IN REGARD TO VULNERABLE YOUNG PEOPLE IN LATIN AMERICA
This research proposes to analyze
the importance of the role of restorative justice in the application to vulnerable young people in Latin America.
The awareness and identification of
vulnerabilities ii is a main point when
we talk about young people, especially
those who are in conflict with the law.
When dealing with this topic It is necessary to discuss this issue within the
field of vulnerability, since this situation affects a lot of young Latin Americans, as it is in this precarious field
where juvenile criminal justice is routinely applied. Therefore, it is extremely
important and needed the search for
the best practice in regard to a differentiated conflict solution to prevent
increasing criminalization and greater
stigmatization for these young people.
To this end, the research results from a
bibliographic review based on the concept of juvenile restorative justice and
exploring its practices in certain Latin
American countries where there is a
greater criminalization of young people. Consequently, it is concluded that a
way to implement a greater protection
and to allow a greater understanding
of the causes and consequences of the
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infractions committed by young people Miriam Gomez Romero
in Latin America makes necessary to & Arnelle Rolim Peixoto
achieve a deeper change and to reverse
the constant penalization of this group
that increasingly comes to support the
speech that defends the lowering of
the minimum age of criminal responsibility. As it has been also pointed by
UNIFEC and other International organizations detaining, or institutionalizing
children are the least effective and the
most expensive measures for preventing reoffending. Evidence shows that
community-based interventions have
more impact.
Keywords: Human Rights, Torture,
Inter-American Court, Prevention, Juvenile
Restorative Justice.
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Ref.: 166M22020
GENDER, RACE AND PUNISHMENT:
THE IMPRISONMENT OF BLACK WOMEN IN THE BRAZILIAN
WESTERN AMAZON ON THE BASED ON CRITICAL FEMINIST
CRIMINOLOGY
Ellen Marina Santos,
Laís Von Dollmger
Machado
& Rodolfo de Freitas
Jacarandá
Federal University of Rondônia
Foundation
The number of women incarcerated in
Brazil has been increasing vertiginously,
in a consistent movement. According to
Levantamento Nacional de Informações
Penitenciárias -INFOPEN Mulheres
(National Penitentiary Information
Survey), published in 2018, Brazil is in
the third position among the countries
that incarcerate women the most (rate
for 100 thousand women). It is noteworthy that 62% of female prisoners
in Brazil are black. Due to the need to
understand this phenomenon and its
specificities, this paper aims to offer an
analysis of the punishment distribution
in the context of the Brazilian Western
Amazon from the intersectional study
of gender, race and class attributes.
Based on quantitative analysis, the
research intends to demonstrate how
these markers intertwine in women living in the Amazon region and how they
act in the (re)production of oppressions,
whose result is the major vulnerability of these bodies to the selectivity
of the penal system. Under the critical-feminist branch of criminology, it is
understood that gender is not a category that focuses solely on women, but
that it is constructed and reproduced
in the social structure in a manner
that shapes all social relations according to a gender determination. Hence,
gender figures as a central element
in understanding the system of state
punishment. Finally, it is concluded that
the states that compose the Brazilian
western Amazon represent a subclass
within Brazil itself, since due to their
colonization processes they still live in
a primitive exploratory logic, having as
their main economic matrix the supply
of commodities to the large urban centers. Inserted in this context, women in
the Brazilian Amazon region live under
the worst indicators of life quality in
comparison to other regions of Brazil.
This demonstrates the higher social vulnerability of these women, especially
the non-white ones. Moreover, these
women constitute the prison mass and
are considerably affected by the invisibility of their gender demands, such as
maternity and sexuality. Since prison is
historically a male environment, there
is also a rupture of the female ideal,
incompatible with transgression, a factor that interferes with the more severe
way in which punishment falls on female
bodies and the construction of stigma
imposed on these women. Therefore,
the expansion of criminalization processes is not in charge of reducing
violence, on the contrary, the growing
increase in female incarceration contributes to the worsening of women’s
social vulnerability and perpetuation
of racism through criminal selectivity.
These factors indicate the ineffectiveness of prison reform policies, confronting the inhuman and degrading reality
of female imprisonment with the ideal
of resocialization and violence-fighting.
Keywords: Gender, Race, Prison, Brazil,
Western Amazon.
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PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA AND ELECTRONIC MONITORING:
A SOLUTION TO THE OVERCROWDING OF THE BRAZILIAN PRISON
SYSTEM OR A VIOLATION OF THE RIGHT TO PROTECTION
OF PERSONAL DATA OF THE PRISONERS?
In 2019, according to the National
Penitentiary Department (DEPEN), Brazil had about 773.151 people deprived
of their liberty in all regimes. The prison
system is a recurring issue due to the
constant violations of human rights,
caused by the chronic problems of
Brazilian prisons: overcrowding, poor
health and poor administration. As
overcrowding is a serious problem in
the Brazilian prison system, measures
aimed at improving this situation have
been taken by the responsible federal
entities, according to art. 24, I, of the
Brazilian Federal Constitution (CF /
88).In 2010, in an attempt to reduce
this problem, the law 12.258 was published, which provides for the possibility of inspecting the convict through
electronic monitoring. In the same
way, the law 12.403, which provides
alternatives to pre-trial detention for
non-repeat offenders who have committed minor crimes with a prison sentence of up to four years, such as bail
and electronic monitoring, was published in 2011. Electronic monitoring is
a recent practice in Brazil, and despite
the scarce regulations and guidelines on
monitoring, this service has expanded
rapidly. In 2016, DEPEN made a commitment to develop a management
model in order to improve the services
of electronic monitoring of individuals
in partnership with the United Nations
Development Program. The result of
this partnership was the “Guidelines for
the Treatment and Protection of Data
in the Electronic Monitoring of People”,
which is in line with the guidelines of
Resolution 213/2015 of the National
Council of Justice. Data protection for
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the imprisoned people monitored elec- Juliana Roman
tronically appears as a central point in Federal University of Rio Grande
the aforementioned document, thus it do Sul
is important to mention the recent publication of the Lei Geral de Proteção de
Dados(LGPD), this which provides the
processing of personal data in Brazil,
bringing new challenges to the public
and private sector regarding the protection of personal data. Bearing in mind
that the collection, storage and various
forms of data processing are essential
activities for the electronic monitoring
service and that the databases of this
activity are fundamentally constituted
by sensitive personal data of the monitored individuals, may the LGPD be
applied in face of possible breaches
of privacy? At the end of this study, it
was concluded that any abuse in the
collection, storage or treatment of the
prisoner’s personal data will not be regulated by the LGPD. The art.4º, III, a)
and c) of the aforementioned legislation
appears as an obstacle to the protection
of prisoner’s personal data. However, it
is important to note that this does not
prevent another rule from affecting the
case. The convict should also have the
right to the protection of his personal
information, considering that there is
State responsibility for the protection
of prisoners, as provided for in art. 5º,
XLIX and art. 37, § 6º of CF/88. The
method applied in the development of
the research was the inductive method,
using particular data to reach a general
conclusion. This research also involved
a bibliographic review, as well a documental and legislative approach.
Keywords: Protection of Personal Data,
Electronic Monitoring, Overcrowded, Prisoners.
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FEMALE INCARCERATION AND (IN)VISIBILITY IN MARANHÃO:
AN ANALYSIS ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF RIGHTS
IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEMOCRATIC RULE
OF LAW POST-1988
Thiago Allisson de Jesus,
University CEUMA, Estácio São Luís
Flaviane Rodrigues
Estácio São Luís
& Gabriella Barbosa Ribeiro
University CEUMA
COIMBRA 2020
Considering that in Brazil, female
incarceration has been a phenomenon
with alarming proportions for decades,
and that it is the 4th country that
most incarcerates women in the world
(INFOPEN MULHERES, 2016), with
a525% imprisonment rate between
2000 to 2016 (INFOPEN MULHERES,
2016), this article aims to analyze the
measure of (in) visibility in female
prison with empirical field on the state
of Maranhão. The research problem will
be around the prison structure and its
impacts related to women, pregnant
and the lactating women, assuming that
the prisons are structurally designed for
men, because “as a rule for the prison
context, with a prevalence of penal
services and policies directed at men
, leaving in the background the diversities that comprise the female prison
reality ”( BANGKOKRULES, 2016). As
a result, the female prison units were
not structured due to the specificities
of their condition, especially regarding
to pregnant women, or at the postpartum or lactation period. Although the
Brazilian legal system is guided by the
Bangkok Rules, there is a lack of implementation of these measures, and it is
urgent to reflect on the conditions of
female incarceration. For better analysis, the comparative method was used,
through an indirect field research to collect data from the State Department
for Prison Administration (Brazil) and
the Brazilian Bar Association, through
the Criminal and Penitentiary Policy
Commission; furthermore, data from
the National Council of Justice and the
National Penitentiary Department were
used, in addition to an accurate bib-
liographic survey. As results, it appears:
a) the difficulty in obtaining updated
data, to establish a profile of incarcerated women in Maranhão, who are
mostly young, mixed race and black,
with incomplete education and convicted of drug trafficking ; b) In addition
to the vacancy deficit, of the six prison
establishments existing in the State of
Maranhão, only one is exclusively for
women -the Female Resocialization
Prison Unit -and others are found in
Mixed Prisons, lacking detailed empirical analysis about the conditions of
serving the sentence of these women in
mixed prison units, without registering
a cell suitable for the pregnant woman,
nursery or daycare centers, according
to INFOPEN / MA 2016; c) Due to the
lack of official and public inspection
reports in female prison units in Maranhão, considering the last one in 2015
released by the Human Rights Society
of Maranhão, it did not cover the visit to
a Female Prison Unit, without recording
health care data, material assistance,
food and other rights. Therefore, the
issue permeates the place of serving
sentences and its impacts resonates the
criminal purposes, social reintegration
and the sociological effects of prison
on the ambience of women in conflict
with the law and on those who depend
on them; as well as demonstrating
the continuous and historical process
of destitution of women’s rights also
within the walls.
Keywords: Prison, Women, Invisibility,
Maranhão.
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COLLECTIVE HABEAS CORPUS AS MITIGATORY INSTRUMENT
FOR MASS WOMEN INCARCERATION IN BRAZIL
This paper aims to discuss the relationship between gender and incarceration, especially bearing in mind the
normative and social system in Brazil
that does not provide the bases for a
bias equalization. Brazil’s Criminal Code
is an almost 80 years old quite outdated patchwork, focused, mostly, in
liberty deprivation penalties. In this
scenario, Brazil has risen in the world
incarceration rate, becoming the third
largest prison population in the world.
Drug trafficking takes on a prominent
position as the crime that incarcerates
the most, even without violence or serious threat. A distortion, however, must
be observed. The quantitative growth
of female inmates is greater than the
equivalent when compared to males
due to double blame women suffer in
prison. When imprisoned, women do
not disobey and only respond to the
threat to public security generated by
the crime committed, they also face the
rules of a silent and unwritten social
contract imposed on her by her gender role. Also, the figure of the woman
in prison today is mostly black, young
and low-income, leading usto the need
for a more cautious analysis on precautionary prisons decrees. The critical
theory shows the need of a breakdown
of a classic cause and effect analysis of
female incarcerations, beginning with
structures of power and domination,
including gender, that reflects a historical social process, due to the lack
of equality, access to education, living
situation, ethnicity, and, mainly, treatment in relation to the authorities. This
reality, in regard of imprisoned women,
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is not just an outcome of this historical
process, but primarily, the absence and
lack of social support in Brazil, that creates a misrepresented system, in which
her life is determinate before her arrest.
Being incarcerated in Brazil means
privation of prison cells for pregnant,
miserly access to health programs and
deprivation of opportunities in a broad
sense, in a biased system, created to
discriminate and exclude, throwing
women in unsafe living conditions and
miserly future opportunities. However,
most of women prisoners fulfill all the
requirements for home prison, but do
not receive this benefit, showing the
rough face of a selective criminal justice,
based on the social iniquity, that toughly
distress women, as merely responsible
for raising her children and maintaining pregnancy. Some mechanisms such
as constitutional writs and procedural
guarantees may help to mitigate these
problems. Particularly, in Habeas Corpus nº 143.641, the Supreme Court
of Brazil decided that “all women subjected to precautionary detention in the
national penitentiary system, who are
pregnant, postpartum or mothers with
children up to 12 years of age under
their responsibility, and of the children
themselves” should be released. In this
judgment the court shows a valid option,
binding public officials, to fight against
gender and sex discrimination, increasing isonomy and effective treatment of
rights between men and women.
Luis Martins de Araújo,
Carolina Pasin
& Rodrigo Augusto
Magalhães
IBMEC/RJ
Keywords: Collective Habeas Corpus,
Women Mass Incarceration, Gender Inequality,
Isonomy Principle.
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DEVELOPING SOCIAL SKILLS IN THE PRISON CONTEXT
– RESULTS FROM THE IMPLEMENTATION
OF A TRAINING PROGRAM WITH PRISONERS
Sandra Dulcineia Duarte
Costa
UPT
& Sandra Fernandes
DPE
COIMBRA 2020
Non-formal education programs play
an important role in the rehabilitation
process of prisoners. It provides the
opportunity for prisoners to engage in
useful activities in the prison context,
facilitates the process of their personal
development and transformation and
enhances their prospects of developing
the motivation, autonomy and responsibility to gain control over their lives
after their release. This study aims to
present the results of a non-formal
education program developed within
the context of a curricular internship
project, carried out at a Penitentiary
Establishment, located in the North of
Portugal. The project is part of the third
year of a bachelor’s degree programme
in Social Education at Portucalense University, which took place from October
2019 to June 2020. The project was
organized in four main phases: diagnosis, planning, execution and evaluation. The first phase of the project
started with a needs diagnosis in order
to fully understand the prison context
and define the ‘knowledge gaps’ linked
to the analysis of individuals’ training
needs and the preparation of responses
to these needs. The methods for data
collection used during this phase were
document analysis, observation and
questionnaires. During this phase, it
was possible to come to the conclusion
that, even though the DGRSP central
services offered rehabilitation and reintegration programs, they were found to
be somehow obsolete. Therefore, the
project was planned to improve and
complement the existing training activities. Since working the social-affective
and the holistic dimension of individu-
als leads to more effective reintegration
and more positive decision-making, the
main objective of the training program
was to develop the prisoners’ communication and interpersonal skills. Social
skills, such as assertiveness, self-realization, self-esteem, social support,
empathy and cooperation, were also
promoted through the training activities. The participants in the training
program included ten prisoners who
volunteered to participate in the experience. In the execution phase of the
project, activities focused on presenting
situations to which the prisoners should
bring forward the best solutions and
justify them. These activities allowed
participants engagement, as well as the
exchange of individual experiences and
knowledge. The pedagogical strategies
used in the training were role-playing,
brainstorming and self-evaluation grids.
These tools enabled the participants to
identify individual fears and to deeply
reflect on their choices and behaviors. The last phase focused on the
evaluation of the program. Qualitative
feedback was collected from the prisoners involved in the study. The results
revealed a positive view by participants
and changes in their individual behavior,
as reported afterwards by the re-education professional. Implications of the
study and future work will be presented
and discussed along the paper.
Keywords: Social Education, Prison Context,
Non-Formal Education, Development of Social
Skills, Training Programme.
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THE INVISIBILIZATION OF WOMEN IN THE BRAZILIAN PENAL SYSTEM
AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE RIGHT TO MATERNITY
The present work is willing to investigate the numerous shortcomings
of public policies for the reduction of
inequalities and social reinsertion of
prisoners, bearing in mind that historically the male perspective is predominant in the prison context. The Brazilian
Federal Constitution guarantees to
imprisoned women the right to the full
exercise of maternity in conditions that
ensure the health and well-being of her
and her baby during the breastfeeding
period. Also, in this case, the Law of
Criminal Execution states that female
prisons should be equipped with nurseries and day-care centers for children
under 7 years old. However, the latest
data provided by the National Council
of Justice through the Statistical Report
Visit to Pregnant and Infant Women
Deprived of Freedom in 2018 demonstrates the inadequacy of the system in
guaranteeing these rights. It was verified that only 52.94% of the Brazilian
feminine establishments have a cell or
dormitory destined especially to pregnant women and parturient women;
only 58.82% have a nursery, 20.6% do
not assure the fulfillment of the Law
13.434/2017, which prohibits the use of
handcuffs during childbirth and during
the immediate puerperium phase, and
none of the establishments visited has
nurseries. During the visits, they found
33 children without Birth Registration
and 10 without adequate vaccination.
Based on the results and analysis of
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data collected throughout the country Dominick Luzolo Bongo
and following Brazilian and interna- Federal University of Maranhão
tional legal recommendations such as & Thiago Allisson Jesus
the Bangkok Rules, the National Council State University of Maranhão
of Justice drafted Resolution No. 252
of 2018, which establishes guidelines
for monitoring women and offspring, as
well as pregnant women, in order to
provide greater structure to these children so that they are not also punished
for crimes committed by their mothers.
In this sense, public policies aimed at
guaranteeing the right to the maternity for imprisoned women and those
under house arrest are analyzed with
regard to maintaining the emotional
bonds between mother and child. The
research is of exploratory character,
with qualitative approach and treatment of statistical data and based on
the reflexive sociology supported in the
literature that dialogues with Bourdieu
and Foucault, bibliographical research
techniques, documental, content and
discourse analysis will be used. It is
understandable that, for many years,
women in prison were invisible and the
particularities related to gender among
them maternity were not respected.
Thus, it is of great importance the systematization of data to better understand the reality of the feminine prison
establishments in relation to maternity.
Keywords: Maternity, Child Rights, Female
Prisons.
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EFFECTS OF A MINDFULNESS-BASED INTERVENTION
FOR PORTUGUESE MALE PRISONERS
Viven Iacob, Marta Brás
& Cláudia Carmo
University of Algarve
COIMBRA 2020
Mindfulness-Based Interventions
(MBI ́s) have shown an increase interest in studies from the scientific community. In this sense, the results have
shown effectiveness in treating several
physical and psychological problems
and increasing well-being. The prison
environment contains many characteristics that directly and indirectly affect
the inmate population. As a result, the
inmates are affected by high mental
health needs when compared to the
general population. In response to this
concern, Mindfulness-Based Interventions have increased in prison context, presenting significant evidence
in the mental health of inmates. However, studies in this area present some
methodological limitations, directing
an appeal to scientific continuity in
this field to assess the effectiveness
of these interventions. The purpose
of this study was to verify the impact
of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention
program on inmates, which aims to
decrease depressive symptoms, anxiety, stress, and negative affect, and
increase positive affect, self-esteem,
and mindfulness capacity. The sample
for data analysis consists of 44 male
individuals, serving a legal penalty at
the Faro Prison (Portugal). Participants
were divided into two groups, the mindfulness training group (N = 22) and the
control group (N =22). The program
lasted 16-20 weeks (weekly sessions of
60-90 minutes). Despite the limitations
of the study associated with the characteristics of the prison and its functioning,
the results indicate significant differences between groups in self-esteem,
with the mindfulness training group presenting the highest average, and also
recorded a significant increase from
pre to post-program in the mindfulness
capacities to observe, to describe and
to not react. The qualitative analysis
results emphasized the usefulness of
the experience for inmates, not only in
prison’s daily life but also for the future,
post-release. Participants underlined
mostly the importance of focus on
breathing practice to cope with anxious
and stressful situations, an increasing
awareness of themselves and their
surroundings, emphasizing their sense
of well-being and their ability to relax.
The results from this study confirm the
benefits of MBI in prison settings and
suggest that this type of interventions
may help rehabilitation of prisoners,
may hold potential to improve their
reintegration into society and reduce
post-release risky behavior.
Keywords: Mindfulness-Based Intervention,
Prison, Inmates, Mental Health.
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COVID-19 AND THE BRAZILIAN PRISON SYSTEM:
CRITERIA AND LIMITS IMPOSED BY COURTS TO GRANT FREEDOM
The pandemic caused by COVID-19
(Sars-CoV-2) reshaped all manners
of acting and dealing with situations
involving the rulings within the Brazilian prison system. Renewing the prior
declaration by the Brazilian Supreme
Court “unconstitutional state of affairs”,
with the reiterated violation of human
rights, the current scenario has revealed
inconsistencies of judicial rulings in
face of similar situations, corroborating to mitigate legal security. Brazilian
prisons already have issues related to
overcrowding and fragility –and in many
cases to necessary care regarding social
reintegration of those who pass through
the system. However, in addition to the
already existing contagious outbreaks
within Brazilian prisons, the new coronavirus has amplified the challenge on
the Judiciary, which must ensure –at the
same time -the health of those who are
deprived of their liberty and determine
guidelines that provide legal parameters
to decisions in times of unusual crisis,
such as ones experienced during a pandemic. For this reason, there is a need
to establish parameters for granting or
denial of liberty. The Nacional Council of
Justice (CNJ) issued the Recommendation n. 62/2020, providing guidelines to
judicature regarding prevention against
the COVID-19 mass infection within the
scope of Brazilian prison system. The
recommendation adopted criteria about
imprisonment reality, virus dissemination speed and the conditions of prison
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premises, therefore proposing, in some
cases, the flexibility of custody or transfers to other units.
However, despite of this normative
direction, an analysis of judicial decisions issued on habeas corpus, including the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court,
reveals the lack of uniformity among
judicature, which does not corroborate
to achieve the purposes sought by the
CNJ, as well as demeaning the fundamental right to equality foreseen in our
legal system. .The present essay analyses the variability of decisions issued by
the judicature, utilizing the online database of The Justice Court of São Paulo,
for it is the largest State Court in Brazil
in numbers of cases involving imprisonment, as well as decisions issued by
the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice
and the Supreme Court, identifying the
different criteria adopted, in order to
demonstrate the lack of legal security,
inviting into a reflection of whether the
Brazilian Judiciary is effectively meeting its final purpose: to produce social
pacification.
Augusto Martinez Perez
Filho,
University of Araraquara
University of Ribeirão Preto
Marilda Franco de Moura
University Center of Barão de Mauá
& Renato Simão de Arruda
University of Araraquara
Keywords: Prison System, Covid-19,
Habeas Corpus, Brazilian Courts, Criteria.
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PENITENTIARY PUBLIC POLICY:
IMPRISONMENT OF WOMEN IN THE BRAZILIAN
PENAL SYSTEM
Maiara Lima Ximenes
Trench
EMERON
& Arlen Jose Silva de Souza
TJRO
COIMBRA 2020
The objectives of this article are: to
investigate the issue of the construction and implementation of public penitentiary policies in the incarceration of
women in the Brazilian penal system
and to describe the female prison population? Black? White? poor? Family
mother? Are they really stuck while
pregnant? With incomplete children
under 12 years of age, are there rules
in compliance with the STF determination? The methodology used was based
on bibliographic research with theorists on the theme Public Policies, as
well as the collection of data extracted
from sources available at the Superior
Federal Court -STF, at the Ministry of
Human Rights, at the Ministry of Justice -MJ, in the National Penitentiary
Department -DEPEN and in the Penitentiary Information-INFOPEN. Official
data from DEPEN, 2014, of the total of
579,781 prisoners, excluding prisoners
in police stations, of the total prisoners, 37,380 are women, and 40% of the
Brazilian prison population comprised
of female prisoners who had not yet
been tried. The majority of women in
Brazil are imprisoned in a closed regime
(44.7%), with 22.5% being in semi-
open, the percentage of precautionary
prisoners reaches 36.1%, 50% of them
are young between 18 and 29 years
old and 57% are single, 26% are in
a stable relationship and only 9% are
married. There is serving sentences of
up to 8 years (54%), with this percentage being more concentrated between
4 and 8 years (35%) in relation to race,
68% are black, while the black population is 51% in the population in general. In conclusion, the national and
international legislation that deals with
the rights of women prisoners must be
strictly observed. Given the reality perceived in this study, it can be seen that
these are not isolated failures, but systemic failures, which involve the omission of institutions, public authorities
and the whole of society.
Keywords: Public Penitentiary Policy,
Brazilian Penal System, Prison Feminine.
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FEMALE CRIME, CRIMINAL JUSTICE PRACTICE AND GENDER ROLES:
JUDICIAL PROFESSIONALS’ PERSPECTIVES
Gender has been identified as an
important and consistent variable that
differentiates crime behavior in which
men have traditionally been associated with the offense and the exercise
of authority, and women suffering victimization. Criminal statistics in recent
years contradict this assumption and
document an increase in female crime
around the world and the greater
involvement of women in the criminal
justice system. In turn, the influence
that gender role has on attitudes about
female and male crime may also impact
the way in which judicial professionals
operate on female involvement in crime
and the type of risk assessment performed, also affecting policies prevention and intervention. Using a qualitative
methodology, the present study aimed
to analyze and characterize the practices of the criminal justice system in
cases involving female crime, based on
the perceptions of judicial professionals. More specifically, it was intended
to: i) analyze the perception of judicial
professionals about female crime; ii)
analyze how socially established gender roles are used to explain the female
crime; iii) analyze the factors that may
contribute to possible gender differences in the decision-making of judicial
professionals. Ten judicial professionals,
mostly male (70%), with an average
age of 46 years and with an average
professional experience of approximately 20 years, were interviewed.
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Participants pointed to a growing crim- Sónia Caridade
inal parity between men and women, & Maria Alzira Pimenta
as a result of social progress and new Dinis
opportunities. However, they also iden- Fernando Pessoa University
tified differences between female and
male criminal activity (e.g., less serious
female criminal conduct, less female
recidivism, less female criminal agency).
The results also revealed an ambivalent
position regarding the performance of
the criminal justice system in relation
to crime in women. The perception
conveyed by the judicial professionals
about the absence of female identity in
crime and an existing ideology about
the role of women in society, promotes
not only a certain benevolence in judicial decisions, but also ignore certain
risk behaviors. This could compromise
the risk assessment of female criminal
conduct, and subsequent judicial intervention, so it is important to promote
greater awareness of crime in women,
deconstructing stereotypes around the
role of women in society.
Keywords: Female Crime, Gender Role,
Criminal Justice, Judicial Professionals.
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COURT DECISIONS, GENDER ROLE AND FEMALE CRIME:
JUDICIAL (DIS)PARITIES
Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
& Sónia Caridade
Fernando Pessoa University
COIMBRA 2020
For years, crime investigation did
not consider female, given the reduced
involvement in the practice of criminal
behavior. However, official data from
the past few years has been challenging this impression, documenting
an increase in crime perpetrated by
women, all over the world. Social perceptions about women continue to be
imbued with gender stereotypes (e.g.,
fragile, weak, more credible, maternal)
that make female incompatible with the
role of offender. Women are commonly
perceived as playing the role of the victim and the man is usually considered
the offender. This under-representation
or even relativization of female criminal conduct tends to interfere with the
performance of law professionals and
the criminal justice system itself, also
influencing the design of prevention/
intervention policies. Using a qualitative
methodology, the present study sought
to identify the factors that are considered by the judicial professionals in the
analysis of female criminal conduct,
seeking to understand how gender stereotypes may influence the attribution
of judicial sentences. To this end, a total
of ten court sentences involving women
with criminal conduct, aged between
18 and 42 years old (M = 30.5; SD =
12.26) were collected and analyzed.
In terms of results, previous criminal
experience, modus operandi, perception of criminal responsibility, degree
of illegality, as well as the sociodemographic characteristics of the victims,
were identified as important variables
in the judicial decision-making process.
The criminal justice system doesn’t
seem to be oblivious of the influence
of some gender stereotypes, which,
under certain circumstances, appear
to promote unequal treatment practices in situations involving women as
a criminal agent. It is expected that this
study may contribute to the deconstruction of some prescriptions, historically
attributed to women (e.g., the greatest
female vulnerability, the pathologization of the offending woman, among
others) and may contribute to promote
changes in the way judicial professionals face and judge the offender female,
encouraging a greater judicial equity.
Keywords: Female Crime, Gender Role,
Criminal Justice, Court Decisions.
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VALUES AND BELIEFS AS PERSONAL CONSTRUCTS.
PROFESSIONALS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE DEALING
WHITH YOUNG FEMALE OFFENDERS IN BALEARIC ISLANDS
The perceptions, attitudes and expectations of the people using different levels of direct and indirect intervention for
young female offenders or delinquents
has historically been (and still is) a key
area of study (April Bernard The Intersectional, 2013). Moreover, there has
also been a general gap in the theoretical and empirical social research
(Chesney-Lind and Meda, Randall
Shelden 2014; Chesney-Lind, M and
Pasko, L., 2004, Chesney-Lind, M and
Eliason, M. 2006), especially in Spain
and in Balearic Islands. Their social
image is, undeniably, a representation
of female delinquency, an assumption
that different professionals (male and
female) make about female delinquency
or young women who are delinquents
or commit criminal offenses, i.e., it is
a symbolic, everyday image that forms
part of their social knowledge. In order
to analyze the social representations of
the professionals who participated in
this study, the following categories were
considered: 1) Attitudes: i.e., opinion
about the object of the study. 2) Information: knowledge about the phenomenon or the social object being analyzed
(from the inside, as a participant in the
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creation of the image, when there is Rosario Pozo Gordaliza
contact with the object, versus what University of Balearic Islands
comes from hearsay). 3) Field of representation and mindset: the hierarchical
arrangement of the social representation. This work explores the internalized and invisible constructs, values,
meanings and beliefs which are hidden
from the conscious level of thought and
which structure and determine the relationships and social practices of the different professionals working with young
offenders in Balearic Islands, Spain.
The empirical work described is essentially based on qualitative techniques
(focus groups and in-depth interviews)
with direct intervention professionals
(educators, Reform and Child protection
workers, social workers, teachers, psychologist etc.) and indirect intervention
professionals (public prosecutor, police,
lawyer, manager, sociologist etc.).
Keywords: Feminist Criminology, Juvenile
Justice, Perceptions, Professionals, Girls.
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TO SUZI, WITH LOVE:
THE VIOLENCE AGAINST INCARCERATED TRANSGENDER
WOMEN
Fábio Wellington Ataíde
Alves
& Ana Paula Felizardo
Federal University of Rio Grande
do Norte
COIMBRA 2020
Society is imprisoned due to the(in)
difference that reinforces its bases;
thus, it becomes impossible to establish an order of harmony, where people
without deserved lives come inconveniently. Worldwide, the prison has
become a gateway to a dimension that
epitomizes regurgitated civilizational
prosperity. The relief of post-critical
criminological lines appears in a case
involving the doctor Drauzio Varela,
the protagonist of a program with a
large audience on Brazilian television.
In one of the episodes, in a touching
gesture, he embraces the incarcerated
transsexual woman Suzi, who HIV-positive and afflicted with tuberculosis. The
attitude generated a backlash on social
networks with the consequent exposure
of the serious crime committed by Suzi
against a child in the past, aggravated
by a second “social condemnation”,
resulting from the “undeserved” human
compassion exposed by the doctor to
someone of an impossible existence.
Given the reaction of moral entrepreneurs and the lack of alternatives to
the scarcity of feelings for a non-place
like prison, a place where humanity
is not expressed, it seems natural to
consider that someone like Suzi does
not deserve visits or an affectionate
embrace. A non-violence criminology
needs to be based on the infrastructures of social institutions, from which
the identity needs to be understood in
the context of the symbolic violence
that reaches transsexual women as
new witches. Thus, the research uses
secondary data analysis based on a
television news report, produced by
“Fantástico” program, with a high audience rate since 1973 in Brazil. The content analysis points to phenomena that
will be addressed in the article, taking
as theoretical reference the dialogue
between authors of the critical criminology field, queer theories, trans feminism and the problematizations about
the moral panic established around the
authors of sexual violence against children and adolescents. The theoretical
contributions derive from the works
of Zaffaroni, Laura Nunes, Jorge Trindade, Jorge de Figueredo Dias, Manuel
da Costa Andrade, Judith Butler, Paul
B. Preciado, Laura Lowenkron, Herbert
Rodrigues and Richard Dawkins, the creator of the concept of “meme”, because
this episode, involving the doctor and
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TO SUZI, WITH LOVE:
THE VIOLENCE AGAINST INCARCERATED TRANSGENDER WOMEN
the transsexual incarcerated woman,
inaugurated a new digital language
associated with prison in Brazil. Hence,
it is intended to contribute to the debate
of Suzi’s condition with the purpose of
allowing a reflexibility of how the human
being thinks about humanity itself. In
the cultural universe that opens up in
post-modernity, understanding violence
requires contextualization, construction
and complexization. In addition, one
must define the spaces where violence
occurs, understand with which other
structures it combines to perpetuate
itself and to analyze why it is so necessary to deny its naturalization. In this
perspective, the arrest of transgender
people is a tense space-problem in
Brazilian democracy; it involves issues
around moral panic, naturalization of
enemies, public opinion and qualification of state repression. It covers the
problem of the majority demands for
more control of violence against vulnerable people, such as that practiced
by Suzi, and also, from another perspective, the control of this very social
reaction, which leads people like Suzito
suffer doubly, due to the condition of
vulnerability that affects them. The con-
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tainment of the punitive reaction is a
subject that permeates the realization
of the dimensions of Democracies and
Constitutionalism.
Fábio Wellington Ataíde
Alves
& Ana Paula Felizardo
Federal University of Rio Grande
do Norte
Keywords: Gender, Incarceration, Vulnerabilities,
Subjectivities, Post-critical Criminology,
Sexual Violence.
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HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN BRAZILIAN PRISONS
AND THE ROLE OF THE BRAZILIAN SUPREME COURT
AND OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUSTICE
Juliana Roman
& Guilherme Aresi Madruga
Lopes
UFRGS
COIMBRA 2020
Overcrowded, filthy and unhealthy
cells; without guarantee of basic
hygiene products or adequate food, lack
of drinking water, constant violence: the
Brazilian penitentiary system presents
a scenario of “unconstitutional state of
affairs”. The expression was used by
the Brazilian ‘Supreme Federal Court’
(STF), to describe the Brazilian prison
system, in the ‘Action for Breach of
Fundamental Principle’ (ADPF) n. 347,
due to the serious violations of human
and fundamental rights in Brazilian prisons. In these places, women, pregnant
women and sexual minorities are especially affected. This research aims to
assess the role of the Brazilian Judicial
Power in the protection of human rights
in prisons, in the light of the actions
of the STF and the ‘National Council of
Justice’ (CNJ). To do so, initially, from
the division of Powers in the Brazilian
State, it is conducted a survey of the
competences in the Brazilian State to
the management of prisons and to the
protection of human rights in prisons;
subsequently, it is studied the role of
the Judiciary in protecting these rights,
based on the analysis of actions by the
STF and the CNJ. This research also
uses data collected by public entities to
illustrate the violation of human rights
in prisons. In the structure of the Brazilian State, the Legislative Powers from
the Federal States, from the Federal
District and from the Union are responsible for ruling on penitentiary law (art.
24, I, 1988 Federal Constitution) and,
consequently, the Executive Powers of
these entities are responsible to manage the prisons. As results, initially, it
was found that the violation of human
rights in prisons is not something new
in Brazil and it reflects other structural
problems in society, such as the great
social inequality and the systemic racism that exist. This violence is worst to
women and to sexual minorities, due to
either action or omission from the State
institutions. In the end, it was found
that the STF has important decisions
in favor of the protection of the human
rights in prisons, however some decisions of the same court, which toughen
incarceration measures, have had an
impact on the worsening of the chaotic
situation of the Brazilian prison system.
An example of this is an oscillation in
the jurisprudence on the possibility
of carrying out the sentence before it
becomes final. Additionally, the CNJ
played an important role in monitoring
and promoting the protection of human
rights in prisons. The method applied
in the development of the research is
the inductive method, by which it tries
to reach a general conclusion from particular data.
Keywords: Human Rights, Prisons, Brazilian
Supreme Court, Brazilian National Council
of Justice, Prisoners.
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UNDERSTANDING RADICALISATION PREVENTION STRATEGIES
WITHIN CORRECTIONAL SETTINGS:
A HOLISTIC CROSS-SECTORAL TRAINING APPROACH
THROUGH DISTANCE LEARNING
The issue of radicalisation escalating to terrorism and violent extremism presents a threat to the security of
nations worldwide. In fact, radicalisation within prisons is thought to be as
old as prisons themselves. Prompted
by the ambition of preventing and combating this issue, recent efforts have
concentrated on direct interventions in
the penitentiary setting. Considered as
a breeding ground for extremist ideologies, prisons tend to deepen detainee’s
vulnerability and foster disillusionment
against the system. Although initiatives
are in place to address this phenomenon, most are rather general, and
awareness-raising focused.Our proposal seeks to analyse the characteristics and results of capacity-building
approaches by understanding them
in a three-way, threefold manner. The
first three-tier approach regards the
staff typology dealing with violent
extremist offenders facing the criminal
justice system: prison, probation, and
civil society organisations as well as
non-governmental organisations. While
radicalisation prevention steps which
are implemented so far reflect a significant shift forward, additional research
needs to be undertaken in closer contact with relevant stakeholders, which
might potentially have an impact on the
status quo. Secondly, capacity-building programmes should not only be
directed to those who enjoy the closest contactwith (potential) extremists,
and who may intervene in a more direct
and fruitful fashion (e.g., psychologists),
but to a wide range of internal actors
depending on the specific technicalities,
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each job requires (i.e., management, Pedro Liberado,
frontline, and technical levels). Lastly, Pedro das Neves
we investigate how training enhances & Catarina Abrunhosa
not only risk-screening capacity and Innovative Prison Systems
the ability to carry out and interpret
risk-assessment tools but also on how
it fosters the methodological planning
and evaluation of disengagement and/
or deradicalisation programmes. Training programmes are overall guided by
the ambition of assembling such data,
which justifies their subdivision into
two types of evaluation. The first is a
set of exercises that aims to measure
participants’ knowledge at the end of
each chapter. On the other side of the
spectrum, feedback forms intend to
assess the relevance and usefulness
of the programme in the participants’
perspective. Performance and attitude
at work, therefore, become quantifiable
variables which enable the understanding of how the training has impacted
the learners. Recent European projects such as R2PRIS (referred as ‘best
practice’ by the European Commission),
INTEGRA, WayOut, R4JUST and HoPE
will inform our paper. The involvement
of several initiatives in this research is
due to their extensive range of target
groups from eleven countries, resulting
in a more comprehensive view of the
impact of their interventions on correctional staff. The goal is to provide
an outline of these approaches and to
explore ways to improve ongoing practices.
Keywords: Radicalisation, Prevention, Prison,
Education, Training.
COIMBRA 2020
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THE POSITION OF THE ECHHRR REGARDING
THE MIGRATORY INTERNAL POLICY OF EUROPEAN STATES:
A BACKWARD STEP IN THE PROTECTION
OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Jacqueline Hellman
European University
COIMBRA 2020
It is evident that migratory movements cannot be considered an exclusive phenomenon of the present and
past century. In fact, since time immemorial, there have been displacements
motivated by an endless number of
diverse and varied reasons. However,
as fares this century is concerned, we
must bring up the worrying data that
different organizations are throwing
around the migratory movements. In
this sense, the United Nations has highlighted that more than seventy million
people were forced to move from their
homes in 2018. Consequently, human
displacement is today a challenge for
the international community. This being
the case, it is easy to understand the
reason why the adoption of an international treaty on the subject was encouraged less than two years ago. We are
referring to the Global Compact for Safe,
Orderly, and Regular Migration by virtue
of which it was intended to reinforce
the rights of migrants, as well as to
promote international cooperation in
this field. However, this tool has been
unable to face the challenges that the
aforementioned phenomenon generates. In this regard, we must emphasize the complex situation that has
been faced by the European continent
during these last years, which has been
seriously hit by the massive arrival of
people from third countries. In fact, the
arrival of migrants has reached record
figures within the territory of the European Union. Faced with this situation,
some Member States have designed
controversial strategies consisting of
avoiding the arrival of individuals. Consequently, our main objective is to find
out which is the position of the European Court of Human Rights. For these
purposes, we understand that it is vital
to analyze the sentence issued on the
13th of February as the aforementioned
judicial body had the opportunity to rule
on the immigration policy implemented
by a European country. Not only that.
It should be noted that, after a detailed
reading of the cited judicial decision, it
can be determined how European countries can articulate the corresponding
internal strategies without entailing a
violation, in the eyes of the ECtHR, of
the supranational norms signed. And,
with the idea of offering the greatest
possible degree of exhaustiveness in
this study, we will resort to a particularly relevant previous judicial decision
in this area. Within this context, we will
be referring to the case Hirsi Jamaa
et al. v. Italy. Thus, from the analysis of both judicial pronouncements
we will be able to conclude if the Court
located in Strasbourg consolidates with
its last decision a position maintained
over time or if, on the contrary, it differs from previously issued resolutions,
offering a new assessment that it would
affect the way in which European states
may confront, in the coming years, the
challenges that migratory movements
entail.
Keywords: Migratory Movements,
European Court of Human Rights, Principle
of Non-Refoulment, Human Rights, European
Union.
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Nas palavras de Nelson Mandela, “ninguém conhece verdadeiramente uma
nação até que esteja dentro das suas
prisões.” Mas a verdade é que as
prisões são uma realidade totalmente
subterrânea, desconhecida, escondida
aos olhos do cidadão comum.
Uma das principais finalidades da
pena, expressamente consagrada no
Código de Execução de Penas e Medidas
Privativas da Liberdade, é a “reinserção
do agente na sociedade, preparando-o
para conduzir a sua vida de modo socialmente responsável”. Sem embargo,
contrariamente ao que o legislador idealizou, as prisões podem ser, não raras
vezes, um verdadeiro contexto de dessocialização. E são-no em três camadas
cumulativas.
Em primeiro lugar, numa dimensão
individual, a pessoa reclusa vê-se
privada do poder de decisão sobre
as escolhas mais elementares da sua
rotina, como sejam as de decidir o que
comer, com quem estar e que horas
dedicar a que atividade. Coartar essa
autonomia a qualquer pessoa é também coartar uma dimensão social de
relação consigo mesmo, fundamental
ao digno desenvolvimento de qualquer
ser humano.
Em segundo lugar, numa dimensão
comunitária, a pessoa reclusa vê-se
inserida num contexto profundamente marcado por uma estrutura
hierarquizada, em que decisões que
impactam a comunidade reclusa não
são, tendencialmente, tomadas de
forma democrática. Como pode alguém
aprender a viver em comunidade se
inexistem espaços de diálogo, em
grupo, para tomada de decisões acerca
de dinâmicas e tarefas comunitárias?
Se todas essas opções são impostas
desde um nível hierárquico superior?
E por último, numa dimensão societária, mais abrangente, a pessoa
reclusa vê-se inserida num contexto
deliberadamente isolado da restante
sociedade e profundamente desconhecido por esta. Ora, como pode o sistema
prisional preparar o indivíduo para um
regresso à sociedade se o período de
privação de liberdade for vivido, do
início ao fim, em segregação? Pode o
isolamento de um indivíduo, durante
um período prolongado no tempo,
ensiná-lo a viver em comunidade? Em
muitos casos, essa rutura de laços sociais, familiares e culturais pode ser difícil
de restaurar.
Mas o que poderia e deveria ser diferente, então? Como poderia um sistema
prisional ser mais eficiente na obtenção
das finalidades a que se propõe? Indo
mais fundo, à luz de que critério deve ser
avaliado um sistema prisional? Serão
a taxa de reincidência e os índices de
reinserção suficientes? Ainda que estes
sejam, em si mesmos, critérios válidos
para avaliação dos fins (ou resultados)
alcançados, qual será o melhor critério
para escolha dos meios a adotar?
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O do princípio da normalização, expressamente consagrado como o quinto
princípio fundamental das Regras
Penitenciárias Europeias do Conselho
de Europa, segundo o qual “a vida na
prisão aproximar-se-á, na medida do
possível, dos aspetos positivos da vida
fora da prisão”.
As pessoas que tenham provocado um
dano à sociedade – pela prática de um
crime – são privadas da sua liberdade
para que esse período de reclusão seja
uma verdadeira oportunidade [i] para
uma maior perceção do alcance do dano
provocado, [ii] para uma melhor compreensão de qual a conduta esperada
numa vida em comunidade e [iii] para
aquisição de ferramentas e competências que ajudem essa pessoa a manter
essa conduta socialmente responsável.
É necessário que a vida em reclusão
se aproxime, tanto quanto possível,
e em termos práticos, de uma vida
em comunidade. E esta normalização
deve ser vertida nas rotinas diárias,
nos espaços, na tomada de decisões.
Em que medida deverão e poderão ser
oferecidas soluções de reclusão mais
normalizadas? Não será excessivo o
atual pendor securitário da reclusão, na
medida em que o mesmo, ao coartar as
mais simples tomadas de decisão diárias
e as mais básicas interações familiares,
sociais e profissionais, coarta também a
necessária reaprendizagem da vida em
sociedade? Não será contraproducente
um isolamento tão marcado das comu-
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nidades locais? Como posso aprender a
relacionar-me com algo que me é cada
vez mais distante?
A verdade é que um pouco por toda
a União Europeia vão surgindo novas
soluções de reclusão. Aqui se incluem
as “casas de detenção” e as “casas de
transição”, estas últimas dedicadas ao
cumprimento da fase final de uma pena
privativa da liberdade. Por oposição às
grandes prisões do século XIX, que
tendem a gerir grupos alargados de
pessoas em infraestruturas estandardizadas e apartadas das comunidades
locais, estas casas para cumprimento
de pena – implementadas, com as
devidas adaptações, em vários Estados Membros, como Holanda, Bélgica,
França, Itália e Malta – são de pequena
dimensão, estão inseridas na comunidade e concedem um tratamento diferenciado a cada pessoa reclusa, três
características que, não sendo um fim
em si mesmas, se revelam essenciais
precisamente por permitirem uma normalização da vida em reclusão. Casas
pequenas permitem o reconhecimento
de cada residente enquanto indivíduo
único e irrepetível, a criação de relações
pessoais e a conceção de percursos de
reinserção individualizados. Casas integradas numa comunidade local permitem – de forma não imediata, mas
ponderada e progressiva – a criação e
desenvolvimento de laços entre cada
residente e a comunidade local. Assim,
se permite a desmistificação de alguns
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dos alarmismos sociais de perigosidade,
o ressarcimento gradual do dano provocado à sociedade – designadamente
através de trabalhos prestados pelos
residentes, em benefício da comunidade – e o estabelecimento de relações,
pessoais ou profissionais, que poderão
perdurar e servir de apoio à pessoa
reclusa na transição para a liberdade
plena. A tudo isto acresce que estas
soluções têm vindo a demonstrar melhores resultados na reinserção e prevenção da reincidência e, dessa forma,
na construção de uma sociedade mais
segura. Haverá oportunidade para que
esta solução venha a ser um novo normal na cultura do nosso sistema prisional?
ação sem visão é apenas uma passagem do tempo. Uma visão sem ação
é apenas devaneio. Mas uma visão com
ação tem o poder de mudar o mundo.”
Inês Viterbo
Coordenadora de Políticas Públicas
O tempo passa, o mundo muda. Na
verdade, tem mudado a um ritmo vertiginoso impulsionado pela contínua
evolução tecnológica. O tempo passa,
tudo muda e as prisões permanecem,
perduram, praticamente imutáveis no
tempo, por centenas de anos. Para
muitos, a reclusão não passa de uma
passagem do tempo. A estagnação dos
sistemas prisionais não pode ser um
bom augúrio, sobretudo quando contrastada com os avanços notórios que
se têm vindo a registar noutros setores públicos. É urgente que uma nova
visão para a vivência da reclusão seja
adotada, à luz dos tempos atuais. E é
urgente que essa visão seja traduzida
em formas concretas. Porque, como
também disse Nelson Mandela, “uma
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