“Queria realizar um sonho, mas virou um pesadelo”: trajetórias de vida de mulheres aprisionadas por tráfico de drogas no Sertão da Bahia

Abstract

This work brings theoretical reflections on the trajectories of women in drug trafficking and, it is guided by the conceptual and historical debate of gender in the construction of roles of gender, used as a prerogative to understand and interpret how the insertion of women in the scenario of female criminality. The context studied highlights women present in criminal practices, specifically drug trafficking, playing roles totally different from those determined to women in the patriarchal structure, however still the stigma of female criminality is maintained, of women outside the standards of femininity expected. Given the patriarchal context, this study also raises the analysis of the contributions of the feminist movement, to clarify discussions, such as the fight against male domination and the important achievements that emerged in the pursuit of female protagonism. The study still makes an incursion into the debates about the use and trafficking of drugs and the insertion of women in this activity, still tracing a profile of women in criminality. Finally, the writing proceeds to analysis of the trajectory of women imprisoned in a prison unit in the city of Feira de Santana, for drug trafficking, in light of the discussions held in the previous chapters, contributing to understand the impacts and aspects present in the family and social context, as well as the motivations for the inclusion of these women in drug trafficking.The methodology that supports this work brings initially the bibliographical analysis, in order to present the main contributions theories that guide discussions about female criminality, illicit drug trafficking, prison and penal system. This research uses a qualitative methods approach and is subsidized in semi-structured interviews with three women convicts from the penal set located in the Sertão of Bahia. We aimed, in this analysis, to trace the socioeconomic profile of these women, the subjectivities in the history of life from childhood to adult life and motivations that approached drug trafficking. The results ended in this work provide to improve the relevant discussion of female criminality, we understand that this field of research it lacks studies to deepen its real scenario. Finally, we realized that the performance of women in drug trafficking materializes through structurally inequalities presented in the power relations in the illicit drug trade, which reproduce the inequalities of gender in society, but which promote a proximity, albeit illusory, to a relationship of power and visibility for women.