"I will not let justice steal my dreams": GENDER AND VIOLENCE IN PRISON
prison; violence; criminal justice; intersectionality
Female imprisonment in Brazil, as a growing phenomenon, has become, increasingly, a subject of study among several experts whose evidence indicates harmful effects on the lives of many women. In a country where guarantees and rights are not fulfilled, and the differences of punishment are traced to some, salubrious conditions for punishment, and for so many inhumane environments, the prison situation reveals that the Criminal Enforcement Law, the Federal Constitution , as well as rules, agreements, treaties, conventions to which Brazil is a signatory, have not been fulfilled for the most part imprisoned. In this scenario, there are women living in spaces in which patriarchal, traditional, religious values are valid, attesting masculinized architectures. Thus, the present research seeks to understand the relationship between gender and violence in prison, highlighting a universe where stereotyped gender roles prevail, and women prisoners are subjected to situations of abandonment, indifference, idleness, punishment, oppression and violence To do so, some historical facts about women's imprisonment, control agency practices, criminal justice selectivity, an understanding of gender, considerations about black feminist theory, and the intersectionality perspective of gender, race, and class in the analysis of certain phenomena.