“Vidas em cárcere”: um estudo sobre as mulheres apenadas na penitenciária femenina de Pedrinhas, em São Luís-MA

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study the women serving prison sentences in the Pedrinhas Women's Penitentiary, located in São Luís do Maranhão, as well as their imprisonment rate. The research aims to examine the possible factors that generated the increase in this prison population. In order to meet the objectives, the research was organized to demonstrate, first, the evolutionary stages of the female prison system, then, it analyzed female criminality in the light of Feminist Criminology, and finally, it presented a survey of particular data from the prison system of Pedrinhas. With this, it is expected that the study, based on the descriptive- exploratory research method, with bibliographical survey and use of statistical data, favors the debate in the academic field, in view of the scarcity of studies that deal exclusively with the theme.