Conjugal Visits in the Context of Incarceration of Women and Girls in the State of Bahia, Brazil

Autor: Natasha Maria Wangen Krahn, Jalusa Silva de Arruda, Jussara Carneiro Costa
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Basque<br />French<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol 10, Iss 2, Pp 415-441 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2079-5971
0000-0000
DOI: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1052
Popis: This article analyzes the guarantee of the right to conjugal visits in contexts of incarceration for women and adolescent girls in a prison and in a socio-educational incarceration institution in the state of Bahia (Brazil). As exploratory research, the objective of this article is to understand how the right to conjugal visits is guaranteed (or not), the perceptions about this right, the difficulties for its fulfillment and the intersections with strategies of body control and sexuality of adult women and adolescents who are deprived of their liberty. Based on data obtained from literature review, documentary analysis and interviews with part of the staff at the incarceration institutions, it is possible to grasp the perceptions about the right to conjugal visitation by incarcerated women and adolescent girls, and the peculiarities of its implementation given gender specificities.
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