Mulheres na prisão: a relação do aumento do encarceramento feminino com a atual política de drogas brasileira

Abstract

The purpose of this scientific article is to analyze the extent to which Brazilian drug policy currently affects the increase in female incarceration, and to do so, first determine the causes that lead to the involvement of women in drug trafficking, in what way the action of the authorities at the time of arrest and the following conviction of these women, the treatment given to them while in prison, taking into account the particularities inherent to the female gender within the prison reality, as the war on drugs policy is used as a justification for the discretion of the authorities that exercise greater social control in specific and minority groups in society. And, finally, alternative measures to prison are sought, and prevention measures for these women. Thus, in order to carry out this work, bibliographical studies were carried out on scientific research on the phenomenon of female incarceration.