abstract: The United States of America incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, with the rate of growth for the imprisonment for women being currently twice that of men. Despite these alarming numbers women are often deemed the forgotten population within the carceral system. Using feminist inquiry within an interpretivist framework, I employ an autoethnographic account to examine my experience as a volunteer educator within the American Prison system. The 'data' within the autoethnography include my thoughts, eventualities, and reflections that are analyzed through an iterative cycle. Due to the creative nature of this thesis, 'data' are represented through a series of concepts, including art, photographs, and shifting narratives that mediate the language between theory and the lived experiences of incarcerated women. The data within this thesis however are not mine alone, they are cogenerated with the women of the Perryville Correctional Facility. Using feminist-based practices the representations of incarcerated women come from the women themselves , thus serving as a method of survival, as a form of activism, and as a tool of healing and justice that is not linked to reform. This thesis serves to simultaneously challenge and contribute to the traditional scholarship surrounding female incarceration by centering the voices of incarcerated women, and in turn serving as a form of liberatory action. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Social Justice and Human Rights 2020

The current study examined the social factors that have influenced the rising female incarceration rates in Japan between 1970 and 2011, based on two theoretical explanations: Women's behavioral change thesis (women's liberation thesis and economic marginalization thesis), and policy change thesis (arrest and prosecutorial effect). Based on the secondary data obtained from the Japanese government's statistics, time series analysis was conducted. The results didn't support liberation thesis, whereas economic marginalization thesis and policy change thesis (prosecutorial effect) were supported to explain the rising female incarceration rate for special law crimes in Japan. On the other hand, two general indicators of ecoomic and political conditions in Japan had strong impact on the female incarceration rate for both penal code and special law crimes. Implications were discussed, basing on the cultural backgrounds of gender stratification, criminal justice processing and the broader economic and political conditions in Japan.

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Submitted by PPG Ci?ncias Sociais (csociais-pg@pucrs.br) on 2018-11-19T12:28:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Daina_Maturano_Dias_Martil_Dis.pdf: 2509038 bytes, checksum: d1087d1c8072040402a4173ef97274d0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Sheila Dias (sheila.dias@pucrs.br) on 2018-11-19T15:46:21Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Daina_Maturano_Dias_Martil_Dis.pdf: 2509038 bytes, checksum: d1087d1c8072040402a4173ef97274d0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-19T15:55:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Daina_Maturano_Dias_Martil_Dis.pdf: 2509038 bytes, checksum: d1087d1c8072040402a4173ef97274d0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-31 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / This study evaluates the factors involved in granting or denying home detention to women in pretrial detention at the Madre Pelletier Female State Prison (MPFSP), in Southern Brazil. The sampled responds to the requirements established in article 318 of the Brazilian Code of Criminal Procedure (BCCP), which recommends replacing pretrial detention with house arrest to the women who are pregnant or mothers of children under 12 years old. This research was based on two premises: (i) the enactment of Law 13.257/ 2016 known as the Legal Framework for Early Childhood - which promoted the change in the BCCP in order to meet the infants best interests - and (ii) the preparation of technical reports by MPFSP social and psychologist Assistants, later sent to the criminal process district, requesting an analysis to the house arrest granting. It was a mixed design study. Qualitative data were examined by the Discursive Textual Analysis theory, which is composed of three essential elements: unitarization, categorization and communication. Quantitative analysis encompass statistical calculations performed by Statical Package for the Social Scienses, version 21.0 for Windows. Furthermore, the sociodemographic profile of a total of 84 women was raised in the reports on the Justice Court website. From the analysis of the data, it was verified that 32% of the women had their request rejected. By refusing the house arrest the magistracy alleges the maintenance of public order to justify the non-granting for women in detention. However, the sample preponderance shows that the criminal imputation does not accompany violence acts. Homicide crimes accounted for only 7.1%, which shows that the majority of surveyed women in MPFSP could receive the house arrest grant. The interpretation of the discourses content reveals moralistic considerations referring to an idealized motherhood in the mold of the patriarchal culture, considering that these women are unfit for mothering precisely because they are accused of committing a crime. On the other hand, in the cases when house arrest was granting, it was evidenced by the judiciary the understanding of the indispensability of the maternal figure for the care of the children, thus protecting the best interest of the infant. Such findings may contribute to the elaboration of affirmative actions that subsidize the strengthening of house arrest concessions. Under the bastion of the Public Security Policy known as "Zero Tolerance", preventive detention could be understand as a social control tool of women who disregard the social role attributed to the feminine by the androcentric and patriarchal culture here represented by southern criminal justice system. / O presente estudo tem como objetivo conhecer, a partir da utiliza??o da An?lise Textual Discursiva, o tom do discurso da magistratura ga?cha, para conceder ou indeferir a pris?o domiciliar ?s mulheres em situa??o de pris?o preventiva no Pres?dio Estadual Feminino Madre Pelletier, que respondem ao requisito de serem m?es de crian?as menores de 12 anos ou estejam gestantes, conforme preconiza o artigo 318 do C?digo de Processo Penal. A justificativa para elabora??o de tal investiga??o partiu da promulga??o da Lei 13.257/2016, conhecida como Marco Legal da Primeira Inf?ncia ? que promoveu a altera??o no CPP no fito de atender o melhor interesse dos infantes ?, e da elabora??o de relat?rios t?cnicos por Assistentes Sociais e Psic?logas do PEFMP, posteriormente encaminhados para a comarca de origem do processo criminal, solicitando an?lise para a concess?o da pris?o domiciliar. Foi tamb?m levantado o perfil sociodemogr?fico das r?s, totalizando 84 amostras que continham manifesta??o nos despachos no s?tio eletr?nico do TJRS. Tratou-se de estudo com delineamento misto. A an?lise quantitativa foi realizada por meio de c?lculos estat?sticos do Statistical Package for the Social Scienses ? SPSS, vers?o 21.0 para Windows. J? os dados qualitativos foram analisados pela teoria da An?lise Textual Discursiva, e comp?em um ciclo de an?lise composto por tr?s elementos essenciais: a unitariza??o, categoriza??o e comunica??o, que resultaram no corpus das an?lises. A interpreta??o do conte?do dos discursos destacou que, ao indeferir a pris?o domiciliar, a magistratura ga?cha utiliza-se da manuten??o da ordem p?blica para justificar a n?o concess?o da medida cautelar diversa da pris?o para mulheres em situa??o de pris?o preventiva, apresentado algumas considera??es de cunho moralista referentes a uma maternidade idealizada nos moldes da cultura patriarcal, ao considerarem essas mulheres inaptas ? maternagem justamente por serem acusadas de cometimento de delito, em que pese que a preponder?ncia da amostra tenha demonstrado que a imputa??o penal n?o acompanha atos de viol?ncia. Na outra esteira, ao concederem a pris?o domiciliar, ficou evidenciado pela magistratura o entendimento da imprescindibilidade da figura materna para o cuidado dos filhos, resguardando assim o melhor interesse da crian?a. Tal constata??o pode vir a contribuir na elabora??o de a??es afirmativas que subsidiem o fortalecimento das concess?es de pris?o domiciliar, diante do fato, como ficou demonstrado, que a pris?o preventiva de mulheres configura-se enquanto ferramenta de controle social sob a ?gide do recrudescimento da Pol?tica de Seguran?a P?blica conhecida como ?Toler?ncia Zero?.