Palestinian women detained in Israeli prisons are often subjected to systemic human rights violations. This study examines the treatment of Palestinian women in Israeli prisons, examining the extent to which these experiences align with or diverge from international human rights norms. Through rigorous analysis of existing literature, legal frameworks, and firsthand accounts, this study aims to contribute to the discourse on human rights and justice within the context of Palestinian incarceration. By examining various aspects of their treatment, including but not limited to conditions of detention, interrogation methods, access to legal representation, and healthcare provision, this research seeks to provide a nuanced understanding of the challenges faced by women within Israeli prison facilities. The findings from interviews with Palestinian female prisoners provide compelling evidence of the systematic abuses of human rights perpetrated by Israeli authorities within the prison system. In light of these findings, it is imperative to advocate for reforms within the Israeli prison system, with a focus on upholding the rights and dignity of Palestinian female detainees.

Text in English / While correctional centres are often associated with men, there is an increasing number of incarcerated women who have rehabilitation needs that are specific to their gender. Historically correctional centres have responded through offering rehabilitative programmes that stereotyped women offenders into socially constructed gender roles. Using a feminist criminology framework, the current study aimed to explore the subjective inner experience and meaning given by women classified as maximum security offenders to the rehabilitation processes in the Johannesburg Correctional Centre. Data was collected from 18 incarcerated women who are and were once classified as maximum offenders. A narrative analysis was used in understanding the data from the interviews. Women’s narratives in the current study reflect unique and common experiences with rehabilitation in the correctional centre. Being a maximum security offender presents a challenge of further perceived discrimination, alienation and isolation amongst women who describe limited involvement in rehabilitation as a result of this identity. Also highlighted in the study are challenges in implementing gender sensitive programming in a penal system infused with power dynamics; a discipline and punish narrative; patriarchy; binary view of gender and ethnocentrism. A continued reinforcement of traditional structures, systems and practices that seek to perpetuate gendered form of existence is also evident in the current study. Therefore, a need for the reformation of the correctional centre context and culture is suggested so as to respond in a manner that is not only gender sensitive, but also inclusive enough in recognising both in theory and in practice, the various locations of inequality in society that influence female criminality. The principle of Ubuntu demonstrated through caring, compassion and hospitability which empowers and edifies the other person through interrelatedness is one of the promising initiatives that can guide correctional centres and society in the implementation of gender sensitive programmes, while paying attention to the socio-cultural dynamics that influence women’s pathways to crime. / Psychology / D. Phil. (Psychology)

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-12-04T11:47:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Hellen Pereira Lara.pdf: 4261049 bytes, checksum: 30b3f4d9cc9c375727cc518855121b50 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-04T11:47:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Hellen Pereira Lara.pdf: 4261049 bytes, checksum: 30b3f4d9cc9c375727cc518855121b50 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-10 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / This research is the result of inquiries relating to the many and cruel improsoned women`s rights violation in the prison system in the state of São Paulo. In order to carry out this study, the capitalist society`s path has been outlined considering this system as a way to underestimate women`s rights in this system. Furthermore, a prison system`s research was carried out in regards to mothers who are imprisoned as well as interviews with experts that work on this field in order to analyze how the Institutional policies in regards to the Public Deffender`s Office named “Mães em Cárcere“ [imprisoned mothers] as well as its performance and challenges. The policies for “Mães em Cárcere” were established in 2011 through dialogues involving Pastoral of Prisoners (Pastoral Carcerária), Land, Work and Citizenship Institute, Public Defender’s Office (Defensoria Pública) among other public institutions that aim at supporting this group. Given the fact that in the state of São Paulo is the place where an increase of criminality levels is observed, the research suggests there is a focus on criminalizing poor suburban work-class layers based on capital. This research finally aims at showing how our society violates these women`s rights leaving ever-lasting wounds in themselves and their families / A pesquisa que ora é apresentada é fruto de indagações referentes às diversas violações de direitos sofridas por mulheres mães encarceradas no sistema penitenciário do Estado de São Paulo. Para elaboração desta pesquisa, foi realizado um levantamento do percurso do sistema prisional em especial, no que tange as mulheres mães nessas instituições, como também, entrevistas com profissionais que atual nesse segmento. Ainda traz, conhecimento sobre a existência e de como se desenvolve a Política “Mães em Cárcere”, bem como sua atuação e seus principais desafios. A Política “Mães em Cárcere” foi constituída em 2011, através de diálogos entre a Pastoral Carcerária, Instituto Terra Trabalho e Cidadania (ITTC), Defensoria Pública e outros órgãos públicos, com objetivo de garantir os direitos das mulheres mães encarceradas, demarcando principalmente o Estado de São Paulo. Ademais, deu enfoque ao aumento abusivo do encarceramento em massa, com o discurso de atuar na chamada criminalidade, mas que demonstra uma clara intenção de criminalizar uma camada da classe trabalhadora que vive nos espaços mais segregados da sociedade, buscou-se nesta pesquisa, ressaltar as situações vivenciadas pelas mulheres mães encarceradas, sendo possível, constatar entre as diversas violações de direitos, que essas acontecem de formas brutais e perversas, deixando sequelas irreparáveis nas mulheres e suas famílias