Os reflexos das políticas de drogas no encarceramento das mulheres

Abstract

Incarceration as a measure to solve all social ills, is historically consistent and persists today, progressing with increase, year after year. The aim of this research was to understand whether the development of drug policies has interfered with the increase in women's imprisonment. The methodology used to achieve the proposed objective was qualitative and bibliographical in nature using books, journals, theses, dissertations, decrees, reports and articles published by renowned authors. It was observed that the state and its punitive power fails with the selectivity of justice for deciding to punish who the criminal woman is based on stereotypes are not based on criminal actions or even on the danger that this represents of living in society, but on the tendency to attribute to a woman who already comes from a reality of inequality and social exclusion as dangerous. It is concluded that the incarceration policy, based on the growing number of imprisoned women, is strong evidence of a social problem that is confirmed by putting the profile of this incarcerated woman on the agenda.