A religião enquanto instrumento de ressocialização da pessoa privada de liberdade

Abstract

The main objective of this dissertation is to verify the conception of individuals who have experienced deprivation of liberty regarding the role and relevance of religion in their resocialization process. It is assumed that religion has the power to alleviate the degrading circumstances experienced by people deprived of liberty and, in many cases, serves as a motivational factor to provoke positive behavioral changes, which result in an improvement in quality of life. Religious practice would tend to promote new lifestyle habits, new ways of reacting to circumstances, creating a different culture, favorable to social reintegration. As secondary objectives, the research aimed to: verify the possibility that, according to the conception of people who have experienced deprivation of liberty, religion contributes to the resocialization of people deprived of liberty; observe what are the motivations of people in custody to become interested in or approach religion, according to the conception of people who have been deprived of liberty; report how people deprived of liberty conceive of the religious assistance service within prison units in Pernambuco. . The following were applied: sociodemographic questionnaire, Centrality of Religiosity Scale and semi-structured interview whose answers were analyzed through the IRAMUTEQ software. In the evaluation of the results, it was noticed that according to the conception of the participants, family and spirituality - not religion - were the main contributing factors to aid the social reintegration of the person released from the prison system.