"Itinerário carcerário de mulheres : da socioeducação ao sistema prisional"

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze, through an integrative literature review, how Brazilian scientific production has described the carceral trajectories of women who experienced socio-educational measures during adolescence, as well as the factors associated with the continuity of these trajectories into the female prison system. Between 2015 and 2025, 15 studies were identified in the national literature, including theses, dissertations, and scientific articles, reporting on 35 women. The search was conducted in the SciELO, LILACS, Pepsic, Virtual Health Library (BVS/Bireme), and Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) databases. Data were analyzed using Thematic Analysis, following the approach proposed by Braun and Clarke (2006), from which three main themes were identified: cycles of criminalization in punitive trajectories; psychosocial aspects of contexts of violence and vulnerability; and gender-based violence as a structuring axis of carceral trajectories. The results indicate that these women’s trajectories are marked by processes of criminalization beginning in childhood and adolescence, shaped by experiences of violence, institutionalization, socioeconomic precariousness, and social neglect. Cycles of criminalization leading to deprivation of liberty were also identified, associated with the absence of social protection policies. Furthermore, forms of gender-based violence, such as domestic, sexual, and institutional violence, as well as control practices within prisons, were evidenced. This study contributes to expanding the understanding of continuities between the socio-educational system and the prison system, demonstrating how punitive systems tend to reproduce and intensify social inequalities and gender-based violence. In this sense, it reinforces the need for the development of public policies guided by the guarantee of rights and by alternatives to incarceration.