A seletividade da política nacional de drogas e o aumento do encarceramento feminino: análise através do levantamento dos perfis das mulheres do Complexo Penitenciário Feminino da cidade de Salvador-BA

Abstract

The scientific article intends to discuss about the current criminal policy applied to drug trafficking adopted in Brazil; in addition, it will show how selective law 11.343/2006 is and the related consequences suffered from women in a society deeply unequal. Beyond of bringing an exponential increase of prison, privileging a politic of crackdown of traffic, the law also authorizes the selective application of penal law, due to the fact that it doesn’t have objective standards to distinguish who is the drug user and who the drug dealer is. Verifying, conducting field research, in line with data, that imprisoned women, by rule, belong to the most vulnerable social class of society (black, poor, single mother and low education level). t is a qualitative research, through a multiple case study, guided by a semi-structured questionnaire applied to women convicted of drug trafficking in the Women's Penitentiary Complex in the city of Salvador-Bahia. The collected data were formed by theoretical support outlined by national bibliographic survey on the referred topic.