Mulheres, apesar do cárcere: reflexões a partir da extensão acadêmica à luz dos dados nacionais

Abstract

This present work aims to analyze the vertiginous growth of Brazil's female prison population in recent years, informing, nationally, aspects about the composition of such population, and in the municipal context, presenting data collected during the development of the academic extension project "Women, despite prision", which took within the scope of the Extention and Research in Criminal Sciences Center at the Federal University (NEPCrim) of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Furthermore, experiences obtained during the project's development will be exposed through the use of participant observation methodology, notably in relation to the reading initiative carried out with a portion of the female detainees. At last, the project's contributions to academic and human formation will be presented.