Considerations of female occupation in Brazilian penitentiaries

Abstract

Gender studies demonstrate the resilience of patriarchal ideology in public spheres, including the criminal justice system. Because of this, one cannot ignore the violence suffered by women in public spaces of exercise of power, which reduces it to mere object and does not see it as a subject of rights. Thus, women end up being isolated from social media, in order to go through a process of invisibility that eliminates them from the main agenda of public policies. Sexist markers visibly reach the mesh of criminal law by selectively addressing those who will go through the criminalization process that results in the labeling of the individual. Thus, it is necessary to understand how the state treats women who commit a criminal offense, and what are the consequences of this imprisonment.