This article seeks to analyse the paradox of freedom and imprisonment, reflecting on the connections between and nuances of intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA) and women’s imprisonment in the Global South, particularly in Perú. The story follows Maria, a woman serving a 14-year sentence for the homicide of her husband, an act she committed after experiencing 20 years of psychological and physical abuse. I have chosen to focus on her ambivalence towards her experience of IPVA, using Goffman’s (1961) concept of the ‘total institution’; I suggest that Maria was living under a patriarchal and symbolic total institution, a prison-like home (Avni 1991). Following this, while imprisoned for the homicide of her husband, Maria was physically incapacitated in a co-governed, patriarchal, nation-state prison. Nevertheless, simultaneously, in this custodial setting, she found a semi-autonomous path to reinforce her sense of agency and to construct interpersonal relationships that have enabled her to question the preceding patriarchal norms.
More recently, Limoncello et al. (2020) conducted a study that adopted a macro-level approach to analyse incarcerations and overcrowding rates in Latin American countries. The authors suggested that government effectiveness and political stability was positively and significantly
El artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación cualitativa que tenía como objetivo analizar las estrategias para enfrentar el Síndrome de Agotamiento Profesional (SAP) y el estrés laboral en el contexto penitenciario peruano, desde la perspectiva de la institución y los trabajadores penitenciarios. Para ello, se desarrollaron 21 entrevistas semi-estructuradas a autoridades del Instituto Nacional Penitenciario (INPE) y 12 grupos focales donde participaron 59 trabajadores de las áreas de tratamiento y seguridad de 10 Establecimientos Penitenciarios (E.P.) a nivel nacional. A partir del discurso de los participantes se han construido las siguientes áreas de análisis: (a) Cambios estructurales en la institución, (b) Fortalecimiento de habilidades personales y profesionales y (c) Integración social del personal y entre las áreas. Frente a sus propuestas, se desarrolla un modelo sistémico que incluye las tres líneas de acción. Se enfatiza en la importancia de consolidar programas de intervención sistémicos y multidimensionales, reconociendo las opiniones de "abajo hacia arriba" que fomenten la participación de los trabajadores.
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