Mulheres que matam : um estudo sobre mulheres homicidas na Penitenciária Feminina Ana Maria do Couto May em Cuiabá

Abstract

Social conflicts and new global social issues have generated new sociability, part of which is driven by violence and criminality, in a dynamic where the use of force and coercion become part of conflict solutions. These new forms of socialization have reached individuals in societies without distinction. From this new social dynamic, the most diverse groups have reinvented their ways of relating from violence, among them are women, which can be verified from the incidence rates of their participation in crimes, from those with less potential offensive even to the lethal ones, which originated the guiding question of this research: What has motivated women to commit the crime of homicide? The general objective is: to analyze the commission of the crime of homicide committed by women and with specific objectives: to understand the socio-criminal trajectories of women who commit homicide; to know the relationship between victims and homicides and to identify the relationships of violence that these women are inserted in. The field research was carried out at the Ana Maria Couto May Women's Penitentiary, in Cuiabá-MT. To understand this phenomenon, José Vicente de Tavares dos Santos Theory of Conflictivity was used, supported by Criminology based on the construction of Soraia da Rosa Mendes and other theorists who seek to understand the dynamics of violence and crime and how women find themselves positioned in that movement. Qualitative methodology was used to understand the reason for the events, the data collection instruments were documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews, seeking through the statements and reports of the analyzed cases to understand the woman who kills. The results obtained point out that the whole process of social construction based on inequalities, access, information, leisure, culture, financial, among others, has generated, on several occasions, the exercise and use of physical and lethal force in the search for solutions. immediate questions, thus creating a power network marked by force. Women, despite participating in this dynamic of violence production, are the same women who suffer violence and justify them in their reactions.