Reflexões sobre o processo de prisão e as consequências nas condições socioeconômicas para famílias de presos da Penitenciária Estadual de Francisco Beltrão/PR

Abstract

This thesis issues the criminalization of poverty and its impacts on the prisoners families. The general purpose is to analyse the reflection of such in the socioeconomic condition of the families after the imprisonment of a family member. Therefore, the specific objectives defined were: a) to learn about how the criminalization process of poverty occurs, emphasizing the prison related issues. b) to understand how the socioeconomic conditions of poor families are constituted. c) to analyze the changes caused in the families of which a member is imprisoned at the Francisco Beltrão State Penitentiary, Paraná State. The leading matters were chosen from the reflections on the family s conditions, work relations and the household income after the imprisonment of a member, as well as the relevance of the social policies to their needs. The research was made through quantitative and qualitative methods, based in field studies and in several methodological resources. The research s universe is composed by relatives of imprisoned people and the sample consists of eight (8) participants selected through previously defined criteria. The semi-structured interview was used through a form and a recorder. The research presented an analysis of the matter resulting in the finding of the effects suffered by the families to their socioeconomic conditions, stressing the increase of the poverty circumstances. Aiming to highlight the problems lived by those families, a need for the implementation of public policies of social protection destined to the population experiencing the process of poverty criminalization in its several aspects was noted.