Mulheres e tráfico de drogas: análises sobre a estratégia global de aprisionamento feminino no Brasil

Abstract

Since the enactment of Law 11.343/2006, the number of women imprisoned in Brazil almost doubled and today amounts to a total of 30.625, while in 2006 this number was 17,200 women deprived of their liberty. Drug related crimes are the criminal type responsible for 55.86% of women's prisons, almost double the percentage for men, which is 28.36%. This article is dedicated to understanding how the global strategies that resulted in the insertion of women in drug trafficking and in female imprisonment are organized. The general objective is analyze the implications of the "war on drugs" in the increasing incarceration of women and how the "feminization of poverty" and the sexual division of labor, which shape women's attributions in capitalist and patriarchal society, are articulated and reproduced in practices. of drug trafficking. Furthermore, the assimilation of globalizing processes and their political consequences in the Brazilian territory were examined, as well as an attempt to demonstrate the targets chosen by the neoliberal criminal policy. To enable the analysis, critical criminology and feminist theories were used from theoretical accumulation, which place the punitive system as a tool of social control, analyze the criminalization processes and bring the category of gender to the debate. As a methodology, we used the bibliographic review of theses, dissertations, scientific articles and books that deal with the theme, and the analysis of data and official statistics. It was found that the illicit drug market reproduces the patriarchal structure and hierarchy of the formal labor market, as well as being part of a profitable global strategy and maintenance of the neoliberal order, which has resulted in the incarceration of thousands of women around the world and in Brazil.