O impacto do encarceramento penal: percepções e estratégias de enfrentamento em uma cadeia pública de Cuité - PB.

Abstract

This study aims to know the meanings of criminal incarceration and main goal was to understand and analyze, in the perception of inmates, the prison of the senses and their coping strategies in a public jail of the county of Cuité - PB and specific objectives raise a socio-demographic profile and criminal employees of the study; evaluate how the detainee feels before the confinement, with emphasis on their mental health; and identify the strategies used by employees of the study to face the prison. This is an exploratory-descriptive from the perspective of a qualitative approach that included the participation of six detainees who are in closed confinement regime nature study. The results were organized and analyzed in the light of the Collective Subject Discourse seconds Lefèvre and Lefèvre (2005). The statements revealed that the respondents to the feeling of imprisonment is experienced negatively because a number of factors, such as lack of family life, idleness and confinement itself and these influence bad form on their mental health. The main coping strategies that help to overcome the prison daily life were faith, hope and distraction. With the results of the study is the unquestionable importance of developing a plan with strategies aimed at improving the mental health of detainees, a well-defined plan to establish the goals that must be achieved is required. So it is necessary to discuss with the agencies responsible for the social problem being reported, so we can realize the important steps in this process.