Vulnerabilidades e cárcere: a execução penal de mulheres lactantes no complexo Penitenciário São Luís em 2024

Abstract

This dissertation aims to discuss the extent to which the rights of lactating women in prison, as provided for in national and international regulations incorporated by the Brazilian State, are fulfilled in the Women's Prison Unit of the São Luís Penitentiary Complex in 2024. In order to address the complexity of the problem, the general objective is to analyze compliance with specific legislation regarding incarcerated lactating women. The specific objectives aim to analyze the Penitentiary Criminal Justice System, in the context of gender vulnerability, in light of Critical Criminology; relate the rights of women in prison, in light of international and national legislative documents; and verify compliance with legal provisions regarding the criminal execution of lactating women in the Women's Unit of the São Luís Penitentiary Complex. Therefore, the research will be guided by basic theories that work with the categories of the Criminal Justice System and vulnerability of the female gender, as a basis for investigating the social reality of the São Luís Complex, in the Women's Prison Unit, within the thematic scope rationally constructed to define the object of knowledge. The methodological path will adopt the inductive approach method, with a procedural method based on a legal-critical perspective, developed in the descriptive and diagnostic legal scope, with the research techniques initially based on a bibliographic review followed by a field visit to collect data and documents that would allow a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the phenomenon studied.