This Technical Report aims to analyze the conditions of imprisonment of women in
the Prision Unit Women (UPF) in Palmas, portraying the female profile and the
criminal types that led to the arrest. This is an empirical research whose systematic
data collection was performed directly on the physical records of the 62 prey, through
on-site visits to UPF. As a theoretical and methodological support for the analysis of
the data was used the approach of the Theory of Labeling from Critical Criminology.
The results of the research show traces of the criminalization of poverty and labeling
by social class, skin color, schooling, etc. Unlike Critical Criminology, positivist
criminal micro-sociology works with the paradigm of social reaction, which labels the
criminal by the characteristics of the environment in which he is inserted and by the
criminal type, producing the phenomenon of overincarceration, disregarding the
macro-social factors that produce the phenomenon of criminality and allow an
understanding of crime beyond causality. At UPF, the conditions of incarceration
violate Human Rights, considering the overcrowding and UPF structure, which is a
residence adapted to the purposes of it.
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