PATRIARCADO E O APRISIONAMENTO DE MULHERES POR ENVOLVIMENTO COM O TRÁFICO DE DROGAS

Abstract

The present investigative study is part of the debate on the role of women in the Brazilian patriarchal society, and its action in drug trafficking, noting that the number of Brazilian women in prisons increased 455% from 2000 to 2016, a substantial amount. This study constitutes a critical analysis of the patriarchal system in which women are inserted, in a society marked by the division of gender, race and class. Of which the social and cultural determinants become, relevant factors in the insertion of the women to the traffic of drugs with paper of "mule of the traffic". This study has as general objective to analyze the relation of imprisonment of women by drug trafficking and their condition of subordination in relation to men. In order to do so, we have as specific objectives to verify the role of women in our society and the pre-established conditions for them throughout the centuries, as well as to understand the motivation for women to commit the criminal practice of drug trafficking and to women. As methodological resources we use: bibliographic research with historical-critical bias, and the authors, Soares and ilgenfritz (2002), Safiotti (2004), Scott (1998), in the debates about gender. In order to deal with prisons, we used Faucault (1987 and 1999), Ferrerro and Lombroso (2017), Wacquant (2001) and France (2013). In order to discuss the feminization of poverty and expressions of the social question, we use Zaluar (2004) and Iamamotto (2012), among other authors. In quantitative-qualitative research we used the data from the National Survey of Penitentiary Information - Infopen women 2018 and the report developed by the research group: "women in prison in the State of Paraíba" (UFPB), with data collected at the Maria Reeducation Center Júlia Maranhão, here in the city of João Pessoa, with the goal of raising the indicators and analyzing them. The results show that despite economic factors being unfavorable to a minimum survival condition, the predominant factor for the practice of association with trafficking is related to the male figure. The affective bond with his companions led them to attend "requests" to carry drugs. In this way, we identify that women are mostly submissive to some male figure as they move into the world of crime and in this sense continue to occupy secondary roles in life and crime, of great exposure and little recognition in drug trafficking, in the case of this research, play the role of "mule" of trafficking.