Panorama de la criminología feminista brasileña

Abstract

The trajectory in Brazil of the field that has been constructed and called Feminist Criminology is closely related to the feminist movements’ demand for the recognition of women’s human rights, especially the right to live a life free from violence. Adopting the field itself as the object of investigation, this work seeks to trace the contours of what has been affirmed as Feminist Criminology in Brazil, identifying its characterising elements and, in this respect, analysing its points of inflection and convergence with Critical Criminology. To do this, the exact terms «feminist criminology» were searched for in the Capes Portal of Theses and Dissertations database and in the SciElo indexer. According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, three doctoral theses and two scientific articles were selected, which paved the way for this exploratory and bibliographical research. In this way, it was possible to draw a constellation through which to connect the points that have driven the academic and scientific production of Feminist Criminology with the historical and political moments that the feminist movement led, especially in the 1990s and 2000s. On this path, it became clear how important it is to affirm Feminist Criminology as an autonomous field; although it is related to Critical Criminology, it is not dependent on it. Even so, it is undeniable that critical criminology and feminist criminology have, beyond their tense boundaries, a central point of convergence, which is the refusal of scientific positivism within the criminological field.