Além das celas : experiência de mulheres com familiar em cumprimento de pena em regime fechado, Mato Grosso

Abstract

The population deprived of liberty has been growing dramatically in recent decades, overflowing from prison walls to other spaces, such as the family, causing material and immaterial repercussions on the lives of family members, but also mobilizing agency. In the social world, material and immaterial planes are not dissociated, nor static, they converge reciprocally, realizing various forms of agency. This process mainly involves women, as it is common to play the role of mediator in transit in the public and private contexts of the house / prison. The present study aims to analyze the experience of women with family members serving a closed sentence. This is a qualitative research, with socio-anthropological approach, aligned with the precepts of Phenomenology and the concept of agency, and for the production of data, we used field observation, comprehensive interview and focus group, treated by thematic analysis, not traditional.The results deal with the repercussions and confrontations of imprisonment in the experience of mothers and partners. It is evident that the repercussions of imprisonment go beyond and reach the family members, stressing social, moral and financial values, norms, duties and obligations. By outlining various forms of coping with family imprisonment, women show that they have agency, favored by relational and symbolic structures, of the bonds that constitute the formal and informal social support network.Using the biographical method, we analyze the experience of a mother and companion of family members serving a closed sentence. The results reveal the continuities and discontinuities by the experience marked by recurrences of family imprisonment, revealing intersections of this woman who in the face of these events mobilizes the multiple social roles, by the homogenized, differentiated and hierarchized commitment, imputing responsibility as a partner and obligation as a mother. It is concluded that imprisonment does not remain within the prison walls, it crosses borders, it reaches families, especially women. It transposes and transcends, it is not restricted to imprisoned people, it reaches family relations - it goes beyond cells - it uses social, moral and financial values, norms, duties and obligations.