Punished whilst free: a study of an Alternative Sanctions' Center for Women only

• Grant number: 15/00738-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2015
• End date: August 01, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Law - Public Law
• Principal Investigator: Maira Rocha Machado
• Grantee: Carmen Silvia Fullin
• Host Institution: Escola de Direito de São Paulo. Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/19259-2 - From criminal innovation to the social costs of punishment: study of an alternative sanctions' center for women only, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

In recent years, Brazil's number of men and women sentenced to community work has increased steadily. What is the meaning of this? Would this be a new understanding of how the state ought to punish? In order to answer this question, present work portrays an ethnographical study of the day-to-day routine of a public agency responsible of controling and monitoring women sentenced to community work. Thus, we hope to understand the meanings of punishing, whilst free, to work-sentences, specially when the sentenced are women.