Feminização da vigilância: controle penal e tecnologia de gênero

• Ano de defesa: 2025
• Autor(a) principal: Meller, Eduarda
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; Brasil; UFSM; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito; Centro de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
• Palavras-chave em Português: Monitoramento eletrônico; Gênero; Feminização da vigilância; Tecnopolítica; Electronic monitoring; Gender; Feminization of surveillance; Tecnopolitics; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::DIREITO
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/37091

The present research aimed to examine the use of electronic monitoring (EM) devices in the lives of women deprived of liberty in the city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, aiming to identify the social and political impacts caused by the reconfiguration of spaces affected by this penal control technology, through a gender perspective. The theoretical horizon presented a global effect capable of situating the analysis of electronic monitoring of women within the dynamics of penal control in a society of control, extrapolating a briefly regional perspective: the feminization of surveillance. The possibility arises of coining a concept capable of capturing the record of a trend triggered in the historical relationship between penal control and feminized bodies. Therefore, the guiding question to be answered is: what extent the capillary expansion of penal surveillance, through the application of electronic monitoring devices to women deprived of liberty, gives shape to the phenomenon of the feminization of surveillance? Thus, the research was divided into two phases: 1) Delimitation of the political, historical, and factual terms surrounding the relationship between gender and punitive power; 2) The central hypothesis is unraveled from the dynamics of penal control in a society of control, or the definition of the concept of the feminization of surveillance. To shape the presented roadmap, a hypothetical-deductive approach was adopted as a synthetic methodological framework, due to the conjectural quality of the concept being defined, combined with bibliographic review and field research procedures. Ultimately, a phenomenon is observed that is not only quantitative—research indicates that women are overrepresented in electronic monitoring in Brazil—but above all qualitative, as monitoring is intimately linked to the female condition as an expression of vulnerability. This is not only about the consequences in terms of the intensification of care work, but also about a justifying pretext based on gender roles to encompass the context of the application, and consequent expansion, of electronic monitoring as a technopolitical device. Thus, the feminization of surveillance describes the process by which the penal system reconfigures its control network through technologies that impact the material and symbolic conditions of women's lives. It's a gendered technology because its expansion is anchored in the same patriarchal foundation that structures the penal system and the sexual division of care. The logic is the same: control, regulate, punish—now under the vocabulary of protection and care. The "house with an ankle bracelet" is, therefore, a prison—but different.