Vidas em jogos: um estudo sobre mulheres envolvidas com o tráfico de drogas

Abstract

We propose to focus our attention on three aspects in relation to crime in Brazil. First, drug trafficking has gained a prominent role in recent decades, increasing their representation among the other crimes . Second, despite the male role in most criminal actions , women's participation in illegal activities has been highlighted since the number of women arrested in recent years , suffered a proportionally greater increase in the number of men in the same condition . The third aspect, the synthesis of the first two, is the increase of women involved in drug trafficking. This classification holds currently the first , among the crimes committed by the Brazilian who meet custodial sentence . The objective of this work is to understand the condition of women involved in drug trafficking in the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. Understand their motivations, and especially how gender influences the construction of illicit career. The object of study was defined, since , by resorting to the literature on crime , we realized the dearth of research focused on women's participation in the illegal activity. For this purpose , fieldwork in Prison Teacher Ariosvaldo Campos Pires, where the researcher worked for about four years , in which we rely on participant observation, application of 81 ( eighty one ) directed at arrested for trafficking of questionnaires was conducted drugs , which corresponds to 100 % of women convicted under this classification , and 10 (ten) life story interviews , in which we seek to identify how gender affects the relations of trafficking , including positions in the hierarchy of activity women can achieve and how social relations will consolidate the careers of women in the trafficking of narcotics . We conclude that a significant proportion of respondents considered their entry and stay in the drug trade , while a possibility of increase in their financial condition , since 58 % of them are the providers of their homes . We also see that despite a number of difficulties they impose on the inside of the infringing activity , achieved many jobs in trafficking considered significant , such as "wives mouths smoke" and "distributing and supplying" .