Mulheres em monitoramento eletrônico em Guarapuava - PR: histórias de vida e atravessamentos interseccionais

Abstract

Brazil holds the third global position in the number of incarcerated individuals and in the incarceration of women. Studies indicate that most of these women are mothers, live in peripheral areas, are poor, young, non-white, and predominantly incarcerated for drug-related offenses, highlighting the impact of drug war policies on racialized and marginalized bodies. In this context of mass incarceration, electronic monitoring has become a part of contemporary society's control systems. There is a continuous increase in the number of women under these conditions of serving sentences, but there are still few studies on the impacts of this control device on them, especially those who take into account the dimensions of gender and all the historical intersections of violence, oppression, and inequalities that are at the core of our colonized society. Therefore, this dissertation highlights the life stories of four women and their experiences with electronic monitoring in Guarapuava, Paraná, emphasizing the intersections of race, gender, class, and other markers of inequality. Additionally, I developed a diagnosis based on data about the monitored women in the city, complementing the qualitative analysis with general information that illustrates the local context. The research adopted the life story method to understand the trajectories of the interlocutors and record them from a decolonial and intersectional analytical perspective. The theoretical and field investigation took place during the years 2023 and 2024, and the analyses of the shared voices and lives of the interlocutors Carolina, Conceição, Josefina, and Mariele revealed multiple layers of oppression that these women experience, such as gender-based violence, the impacts of solo motherhood, structural impoverishment, restricted access to emancipatory social policies, and various processes of social and racial exclusion that, in turn, reverberate and are reverberated by serving their sentences with electronic monitoring. Although presented as a less burdensome alternative to imprisonment, electronic monitoring has proven to be another form of imprisonment, as these women continue to be controlled and monitored in their homes.I also document in this research the professional and institutional trajectory in pursuit of recognizing domestic and caregiving work as a possibility for sentence reduction for women affected by the criminal justice system, emphasizing the intersectional perspective in criminal law and enabling the implementation of actions in accordance with the Protocol for Gender Perspective Judgments from the National Justice Council. With this study, I aim to contribute to the debate on the incarceration of women, particularly regarding the use of electronic monitoring as control devices and the violence of the punitive justice system towards women, which continues to perpetuate colonial heritages of oppression. This dissertation was presented to the Programa de Pós Graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional at the Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Pato Branco campus, in the concentration area of Sustainable Regional Development and the research line: Regionality and Development.