Bad Victims: An Approach to the Perspectives and Experiences of Criminal Women

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4322/dilemas.v15n2.43886

Keywords:

woman, crime, violence, sexual discrimination, social conflict

Abstract

This paper aims is to explore concrete experiences of delinquent women, based on gender and violence as intertwined analytical dimensions. The qualitative study is based on interviews with three women released from Buenos Aires (Argentina) prison system, with different criminal trajectories. The testimonies show, on the one hand, how their income in this masculinized environment destabilized their gender self-perceptions and, on the other, how the advance of drug trafficking and anti-drug policies produced a young, deprofessionalized and generically “disempowered” female subject. 

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María Florencia Actis, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

Bolsista de pós-doutorado do Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet, Argentina), pesquisadora do Grupo de Estudios sobre Familia, Género y Subjetividades (FGS) do Centro de Estudios Sociales y Políticos da Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMDP, Buenos Aires, Argentina) e professora da pós-graduação da Faculdade de Jornalismo e Comunicação Social da Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP, Buenos Aires, Argentina). É doutora em comunicação, especialista em jornalismo, comunicação social e gênero e licenciada em comunicação pela UNLP.

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2022-05-09

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): MAI/JUN/JUL/AGO

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