Contradições e convergências nos discursos das presidiárias: patriarcalismo e sedução do consumo na prática criminosa feminina

Abstract

In this thesis, we analyze discourses of prisoners in Alagoas. Therefore, we adopt the analysis of the pecheutian Discourse, by which we propose to unveil the effects of meaning present in the discourses; identify the ideological formation in which subjects subscribe and the discursive formations that permeate their utterances. We also bring, as a theoretical contribution, the lukacsian concepts on ideology. In addition, we elect, as analytical devices, feminist theories and critical criminology. The aim of our work is to understand issues related to patriarchy in the universe of crime, since this, which is an instrument of the current mode of production for the reproduction of production relations, has bequeathed to women a place of subalternity in the most varied segments of society. Women seem to be more likely to commit some types of crimes. If they commit others, they cause social estrangement because of their gender. From this, we investigate how these subjects - the prisoners - are also affected by androcentrism, verifying the marks of gender discrimination in their sayings. To understand the functioning of patriarchalism in this segment, we must consider the question of class struggle, which implies identifying, in addition to gender discrimination, social class and racial discrimination in the discourses of women deprived of their liberty. In this respect, the State, which is patriarchal, plays an important role in maintaining the status quo, through the non-compliance of the resocialization discourse of the women and men prisioners. Therefore, this question will also be considered in our analyzes. To carry them out, we recorded and transcribed interviews with twenty prisoners of the Santa Luzia Prison, located in the Alagoan capital. Our corpus was formed by clippings of speeches, whose contents proved to be recidivist and/or relevant. In our results, we see how the subjects of discourses are affected by patriarchy and about racial and class discrimination, and how the marks of resistance to the dominant ideology slip in their utterances. In addition, we understand that the growth of drug trafficking, coupled with the increasing participation of women in public space, has had a significant influence on the increase in the number of women in criminal practice. Finally, we also discuss criminal recidivism among women, whose speeches indicate that this happens due to the experience of the large income of crime, mainly drug trafficking. Thus, the seduction of the consumer market and the non-compliance of the resocializing role of the State contribute in a peremptory way to the return of women, who have already served their time, to crime.