Penitentiary Policy. Imprisoned Woman. Restorative Justice. Peacemaking Circles.
Brazilian penitentiary policies were developed by men and for men, with systematic gender violence being a reality of incarcerated women, as they are deprived of rights, such as maternity, sexuality, family life and basic hygiene. On that account, this research addresses the issue of Restorative Justice as a viable alternative for the empowerment of women deprived of liberty, given the impossibility and loss of identity perpetrated by the prison environment. Thus, it presents as general objective to understand and debate the impacts resulting from the application of Restorative Justice, through peacemaking circles, with women incarcerated at the Women's Recovery Center (CRF) in Santarém/PA, using the methodology of participant observation together to the mentioned circles. Hence, this study consists in a research of applied nature, with an exploratory focus and a qualitative approach. Aiming to achieve its goals, the dissertation will be built in three chapters, plus an introduction and conclusion. In this first qualifying moment, I bring for appreciation the first chapter entitled “Gender and Violence: The (de)construction of the female identity in prison”, which portrays the disrespect for women's own needs during the prison period. Concomitantly, in the current chapter, I depict a brief historic of the feminist movement and the concept of gender violence, highlighting the historical process of the creation of Brazilian women's prisons, which, logically and unfortunately, were designed as reflect a sexist and patriarchal society. Finally, I discuss about the legislative advances regarding the rights of women deprived of liberty, which, however, were not accompanied by effective measures to be put into practice in their entirety, given an inhuman and insensitive penitentiary reality to female particularities.