WOMEN'S PENANCE

Based on master's research conducted at USP which addresses the problem of female imprisonment. A male view of the appalling conditions of female imprisonment in Brazil or in São Paulo. It seeks to identify the principles and norms of human rights and to see if they exist and how they exist implemented and susceptible to a description and analysis even though of a fraction of the daily feminine prison of the São Paulo Metropolis. The State's penal and prison policy sounds inadequate and disregards the social and cultural factors that pervade the use of illicit trade and the war on drugs in Brazil especially where women are concerned. In ignoring gender situations and the peculiarities of crimes committed by women the penalty is inadequate and cruel. The aggressive approach to women's crimes shows intolerances and conflicts. A study on humanities rights and other legitimacies involved in the Joint Sciences of Criminal Law lead us to believe that the punishment imputed to the majority of women is an irrational form of social control.