Uma guerra contra as mulheres: análise da atuação feminina no mercado de drogas

Abstract

Feminist criminologist Chesney Lind's assertion that the "war on drugs is a war on women" reveals to us the irreparable damage that drug enforcement policy has done to the female population. This is observed if we take into account not only the increasing increase in female imprisonment, but also in relation to the social impacts that this policy has, especially, on women's lives. That said, this research aimed to analyze the female performance in the drug market. To achieve this objective, the bibliographic method was used. The phenomenon of the feminization of poverty, experienced at the end of the last century, due to the new conformations of family structures, leads women to assume in a significant way the leadership of homes, especially poor homes. Given the need to promote the maintenance of their families, there is a greater insertion of them in the labor market, so that they seek alternatives in the informal economy and underground economy that are not achieved in the formal market. Gender oppressions in society more broadly can also be noted in the drug market, where women occupy the most precarious and lower-income positions. In this sense, we should highlight as a social cost of the drug as a reproducer of the maintenance of gender oppressions. This is because the prohibitionist repressive policy applied in Brazilian criminal policy reinforces several dimensions of social oppression experienced by women. The undergroundness of the market puts them under the hypervigilance of formal control, promoting female over-incarceration. As well as, the subjugation of informal control that keeps them in precarious positions of this market.