Abstract

BARCINSKI, Mariana  and  CUNICO, Sabrina Daiana. The (un)visible effects of prison: the contradictions of the prison system. Psicologia [online]. 2014, vol.28, n.2, pp.63-70. ISSN 0874-2049.

Prison is historically recognized for uniformizing individuals submitted to its rules, as well as for erasing personal identities. To the institutional attempts to promote invisibility - expressed through constant behavior control - correspond personal strategies of affirmations of uniqueness and differentiation. Considering the invisibilization promoted by prison, the aim of this paper is to discuss the apparent contradiction involved in recognizing the possibility for prison - understood as an instrument of social segregation - to constitute a space of visibility for both incarcerated men and women. This contradiction is discussed within the social and economic context of the population usually incarcerated in Brazil, historically excluded from the access to social rights. It is in this broader context of marginalization that prison can potentially make visible socially marginalized subjectivities.

Keywords : Prison; Visibility; Social Context; Gender.

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