Mulheres com filhos no cárcere – uma análise institucional de discurso

Abstract

It studies the discourses on the exercise of motherhood by women in deprivation of liberty in the Brazilian prison system. It analyzes the discourses of authors who have researched the theme, as well as the discourse of incarcerated women themselves and other institutional actors, through the research reports of these authors. It chooses, as material, eight scientific articles published in Portuguese, by qualified journals in the field of psychology, related to investigations conducted in the Brazilian territory and which included interviews with women who went through the experience of motherhood in prisons. The method used for the treatment and analysis of the material was based on the basic concepts of institutional discourse analysis, as proposed by Guirado (2009), namely: subject, institution, analysis and discourse. It seeks to identify, through the analysis of the articles, recurrences and particularities that stand out, in order to organize the material into thematic categories that would privilege the discourse of women and dialogue with the authors. Thus, the following elements emerge as elements that stand out in this study: the experience of a maternity (de)limited by the institutional context of the prison system, with its specific rules and practices; the bond that develops between mother and child; the emphasis given to the mandatory separation between them, and the place of suspicion given to incarcerated women in the discourse of the institution's professionals. It concludes that the task of analyzing the discourse of the different institutional actors allowed the knowledge of aspects of the experience of motherhood of women in deprivation of liberty in Brazil and that a possible path in the attempt to solve the difficulties encountered would necessarily pass through the realization of rights already legally provided for the incarcerated woman and the child.