Female Crimes and Jail: The Visitors’ Perspectives
This paperis an attempt to understand the prison visitors’ perspectives on the crimes attributed to imprisoned women and on the places of female confinement. In this ethnography conducted in two female prisons, we note that many of the interlocutors tend to justify the imprisonment of women by linki...
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doaj-d38f2f8d3b1d420993ed7e1963e4a0522021-05-28T17:58:37ZspaUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroDilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social1983-59222178-27922021-05-0114253155510.4322/dilemas.v14n2.3431318757Female Crimes and Jail: The Visitors’ PerspectivesHelena Salgueiro LermenMartinho Braga Batista e SilvaThis paperis an attempt to understand the prison visitors’ perspectives on the crimes attributed to imprisoned women and on the places of female confinement. In this ethnography conducted in two female prisons, we note that many of the interlocutors tend to justify the imprisonment of women by linking them to a “thug” partner. There were no mentions to crimes committed for family sustenance, which is out of step with recent literature on female imprisonment. From the narratives, we note that women arrested for similar crimes are placed in prisons with very different means of control and punishment.https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/dilemas/article/view/34313prisão, mulheres, visita, crime, punição |
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Helena Salgueiro Lermen Martinho Braga Batista e Silva Female Crimes and Jail: The Visitors’ Perspectives Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social prisão, mulheres, visita, crime, punição |
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Helena Salgueiro Lermen Martinho Braga Batista e Silva |
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Female Crimes and Jail: The Visitors’ Perspectives |
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Female Crimes and Jail: The Visitors’ Perspectives |
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Female Crimes and Jail: The Visitors’ Perspectives |
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Female Crimes and Jail: The Visitors’ Perspectives |
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Female Crimes and Jail: The Visitors’ Perspectives |
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female crimes and jail: the visitors’ perspectives |
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
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Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social |
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1983-5922 2178-2792 |
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2021-05-01 |
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This paperis an attempt to understand the prison visitors’ perspectives on the crimes attributed to imprisoned women and on the places of female confinement. In this ethnography conducted in two female prisons, we note that many of the interlocutors tend to justify the imprisonment of women by linking them to a “thug” partner. There were no mentions to crimes committed for family sustenance, which is out of step with recent literature on female imprisonment. From the narratives, we note that women arrested for similar crimes are placed in prisons with very different means of control and punishment. |
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prisão, mulheres, visita, crime, punição |
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