Submitted by Setor de Tratamento da Informa??o - BC/PUCRS (tede2@pucrs.br) on 2016-09-12T16:35:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_HELENA_ROCHA_COUTINHO_DE_CASTRO_PARCIAL.pdf: 600673 bytes, checksum: bb75f72598e75aefe50bef53f309d037 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-12T16:35:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_HELENA_ROCHA_COUTINHO_DE_CASTRO_PARCIAL.pdf: 600673 bytes, checksum: bb75f72598e75aefe50bef53f309d037 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-01-21 / This study is based on the analysis of 119 sentencing decisions on drug trafficking cases, all of which involved women as the accused and were rendered within the jurisdiction of Recife throughout 2014. The primary aim of this thesis is to understand the ramifications of gender discourses in relation to women, starting from the hypothesis that (pre)conceptions of a patriarchal and a sexist nature are reproduced in sentencing decisions. Considering that the Judiciary is a key power agency of the criminal justice system, the assumption here is that the message conveyed in those decisions plays an important role in building a social punitive culture. Both critical criminology and a sociology of the administration of justice appeared as the most appropriate theoretical backgrounds in which to locate this work, as they help emphasising the judge's political function and the unfair nature of the criminal justice system?s selection criteria. The research was divided into two phases: a quantitative stage, in which the aim was to learn about the workings of the criminal justice system from the numbers provided by the decisions; and a qualitative stage, based on the content analysis of these decisions. It was found that, in this type of crime, abusive practices perpetrated by the police are commonplace, as most cases involve unlawful flagrant arrests, with the police entering the accused?s home without a warrant and without having to justify his conduct later on in the proceedings. Moreover, the police officer?s version of the facts ends up playing a crucial role in the conviction of the accused, as other evidence is rarely found. Several other pitfalls of the Brazilian criminal system were also identified, such as procedural delays and excessive pre-trial detentions. The research hypothesis was only partially confirmed though, given that nothing positive came out of the sexist dichotomy "victim/witch", as the women were judged not only for drug trafficking crimes, but also for being a mother or a prostitute, and for their behaviour inside and outside their households. On the other hand, the intense police action revealed a high degree of invisibility experienced by these women, who are not receiving any form of protection against possible abuses, including sexual abuse, which puts into question the initial assumption of this research. / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo a an?lise de 119 senten?as penais, com acusadas mulheres, proferidas nas quatro varas especializadas por tr?fico de drogas na cidade do Recife no ano de 2014. Procura-se entender os desdobramentos dos discursos de g?nero em rela??o ? mulher, a partir da hip?tese de que s?o reproduzidos (pr?)conceitos de cunho patriarcalista e machista nas decis?es. Parte-se do pressuposto que os discursos proferidos nessas decis?es, uma vez que o Poder Judici?rio integra as ag?ncias de poder do Sistema de Justi?a Criminal, ter?o alcance na forma??o da cultura punitiva social. O recorte da criminologia cr?tica e da Sociologia da Administra??o da Justi?a tamb?m est?o presentes, ressaltado, respectivamente, a fun??o pol?tica do juiz e o car?ter injusto da sele??o do Sistema Justi?a Criminal. A pesquisa foi dividida em dois momentos distintos, uma etapa quantitativa, na qual se procurou entender o funcionamento da justi?a criminal, a partir dos n?meros extra?dos das decis?es; e uma etapa qualitativa, formada pela an?lise de conte?do das decis?es. Notou-se uma grande atua??o abusiva da Pol?cia nesse tipo de crime, pois a maioria das ocorr?ncias ? composta por flagrantes, com entradas em domicilio da r? sem autoriza??o pr?via da justi?a e sem a necessidade de posterior justificativa. Al?m de, a palavra do agente policial ser essencial para a condena??o, j? que raramente s?o encontrados outros meios de prova. Diversas outras mazelas do sistema brasileiro tamb?m foram identificadas, como a morosidade processual e a aplica??o excessiva da pris?o preventiva. A concretiza??o da hip?tese de pesquisa ocorreu parcialmente, tendo em vista que nada de bom ? retirado da dicotomia machista de possibilidades ?v?tima/bruxa? para a mulher, que ? julgada n?o s? pelo crime de tr?fico, mas por ser m?e ou prostituta, pelo seu comportamento dentro e fora do ?mbito dom?stico. Por outro lado, a intensa atua??o policial revelou um alto grau de invisibilidade sofrida por essas mulheres, para as quais n?o ? voltada nenhuma forma de prote??o em rela??o a poss?veis abusos, inclusive sexuais, o que p?e em cheque o pressuposto inicial da pesquisa.