BLACK WOMEN UNDER FIRE

Sur: International Journal on Human Rights

Juliana Borges¹ 

[1] Juliana Borges is an Anthropology researcher and writer. She studies Sociology and Politics at the Foundation School of Sociology and Political Science of São Paulo. She coordinated the Black Initiative for a New Drugs Policy (2017), was Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Secretariat of Women’s Policy and Special Advisor to the Office of the Municipal Government of the City of São Paulo (2013-2016). She studied Modern Languages at the University of São Paulo and is the author of O que é encarceramento em massa? (What Is Mass Incarceration?), a book of the “Feminismos Plurais” collection coordinated by Djamila Ribeiro.;

关键词: prohibitionism;    black women;    criminal justice;    female incarceration;    drug laws;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article presents the way in which black women have been criminally punished in Brazil. It recalls how black women were punished with systematic rape during the slavery period. In contemporary times, when women are criminally punished they are considered abnormal, emotionally unbalanced and morally unstable, which leads to diagnoses of “incurable” ills such as madness and hysteria, which serve to corroborate a private sphere of punishment by religious networks and psychiatric establishments. 62% of women are confined due to guilt by association or drug trafficking. This piece of information leads the article to question the precarious nature of the war on drugs and to raise the need to strengthen the voices of women in prison – an emerging item on the human rights agenda.

【 授权许可】

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