Cárcere na unidade de prisão feminina de Palmas: formas de aprisionamento e direitos humanos fundamentais à luz da criminologia crítica

Abstract

This Technical Report aims to analyze the conditions of imprisonment of women in the Prision Unit Women (UPF) in Palmas, portraying the female profile and the criminal types that led to the arrest. This is an empirical research whose systematic data collection was performed directly on the physical records of the 62 prey, through on-site visits to UPF. As a theoretical and methodological support for the analysis of the data was used the approach of the Theory of Labeling from Critical Criminology. The results of the research show traces of the criminalization of poverty and labeling by social class, skin color, schooling, etc. Unlike Critical Criminology, positivist criminal micro-sociology works with the paradigm of social reaction, which labels the criminal by the characteristics of the environment in which he is inserted and by the criminal type, producing the phenomenon of overincarceration, disregarding the macro-social factors that produce the phenomenon of criminality and allow an understanding of crime beyond causality. At UPF, the conditions of incarceration violate Human Rights, considering the overcrowding and UPF structure, which is a residence adapted to the purposes of it.