Mulher policial penal sob o enfoque ergológico e de gênero

Abstract

This research deals with the work activity of women who are part of the Criminal Police of the State of Paraíba, aiming to present aspects related to their professional trajectories and their experiences in the criminal police environment and other aspects resulting from the activity. It is relevant for presenting the work universe of women in public security and, more precisely, in the Prison System, which are spaces marked by complex issues regarding labor relations, the almost null social recognition and issues permeated by gender. The general objective was to analyze the work activity of female criminal police officers, who work in penitentiaries in the state of Paraíba, from the ergological and gender approach. As for the specific objectives, they were to know the professional and life trajectory of the criminal police officers interviewed; demonstrate how these workers' day- to-day activity occurs, as well as their experiences and impasses; and the debate on norms and values present in the daily work of these professionals in the Prison System. In order to achieve the objectives, five interviews were carried out, in the semi-structured modality, which were closer to a conversation or dialogue, focused on certain subjects. In a back and forth movement, between the theoretical framework and the field findings, we tried to organize a way of analyzing what was placed as an object of study, aiming to present the activity of female criminal police officers as a unique type of work. In structuring our analyses, we did not create categories or isolated themes, but some axes of discussion around more central issues. As a result of the research, it was found that prisons in the state of Paraíba have masculine and masculinizing configurations and are marked by patriarchal postures crossed by the sexual division of labor and with a strong presence of gender violence, which constantly marks and hurts those who transit on both sides of the walls of the prison units: the penal police. Despite the reports of their daily work, in which gender discrimination, devaluation of the category within the prison and a reproduction of the patriarchal culture that maintains the hegemony of male domination are present, these professionals are proud of their function and pleasure in exercising it. there. They are aware of the value that their profession holds for the functioning of the Criminal and Social Justice System and that it deals with this invisible and excluded part of society - the prison population - that this same society wants to relegate to oblivion.