CRIMINOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF FEMALE INCARCERATION FOR THE CRIME OF DRUG TRAFFICKING

Abstract

This article intends, as well as the proposed theme, to analyze the crime of drug trafficking committed by women, critically verifying the conditioning factors of female criminality. The research question that guides this research is: what factors condition the entry of women into the practice of drug trafficking? From the question presented, the phenomenon of female criminality in drug trafficking was analyzed from a critical perspective, seeking to understand, through studies of marginal feminist criminology and theories that justify entering the criminal activity, the main motivations that influence the entry of women into the crime in question. Once the research problem was overcome, alternatives were sought that could produce positive effects in terms of reducing female incarceration by drug trafficking, highlighting that decarceration measures are presented as a possible solution to the problem, since the current probitionist drug policy is ineffective.  Thus, to achieve the results obtained in this research, the following methodological techniques and procedures were used: i) bibliographic review in works of social sciences, criminal law and criminology, as well as by the authors who focus on women's relations with crime from a feminist theoretical framework; ii) analysis of quantitative and qualitative data extracted from official agencies, paying attention to the limitation they present, since there is a great restriction of information.