A política de guerra às drogas e o maior encarceramento de mulheres

Abstract

In the present study, it was analyzed how the war on drugs policy has contributed to the increase in the number of women incarcerated in Brazil. Although the number of men imprisoned in the country is greater than that of women, what studies have been proving is that there has been a latent growth in female imprisonment in recent years. Pari passu with the increase in the incarceration of women, there was also the tightening of legislation to combat drug trafficking, so that the starting question used in this study was “what is the correlation between the hardening of the fight against drugs and the highest female incarceration in Brazil?”. Through this question, the objectives that guided the research were traced. The general objective, which guided the research, had the power to analyze how the war on drugs policy used in Brazil contributed to the increase in the number of incarcerated women, as well as seeking to identify the relevance of gender and race in maximizing the punishments and the implications of articles 28 and 33 of Law 11.343/2006 on drug policy. In line with the general objective, specific objectives were outlined, with the intention of verifying how the punitive rage to combat drug trafficking was built, as well as analyzing the problematic points contained in articles 28 and 33 of Law 11.343 /2006 and how they may have intensified the imprisonment of women, in addition to verifying the influence of racial and gender stigmas in the aggravation of the sanctions experienced by women in prison, and, finally, evaluating the role of the war on drugs in the proliferation of sexist oppressions. This is a bibliographical and documentary research, which permeates several subjects, including gender, race and the intensification of punishment for drug trafficking as a way of punishing certain people, such as women, who occupy subordinate roles in drug trafficking. and they are in what is called the front line and, therefore, more susceptible to police approaches and, consequently, to imprisonment. Finally, from all the discussion made possible through this study, it was verified, in summary, that women have become easy targets in the war on drugs, due to a series of factors, namely, economic, gender, social and of race, with the influence of the increasingly tougher legislation to combat drugs being immense in the greater incarceration of women who are involved in the sale of such substances.