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  • 5 - Female Imprisonment and Violence in Latin America

  • Marcelo Bergman, Gustavo Fondevila
  • Book:
    Prisons and Crime in Latin America
    Published online:
    19 February 2021
    Print publication:
    11 March 2021, pp 106-120

  • Summary

    Chapter 5 analyzes the increase in the imprisonment of women and examines the growing and important role of females in the illegal drug business. Women live in separate facilities and have specific issues that deserve special examination. We show that females were incarcerated for similar felonies to their male counterparts, as they tried to take advantage of income opportunities offered by illegal drugs and property crimes. This largely explains their rapidly growing imprisonment rate. In addition, this chapter studies their criminal trajectories and violence in prison, analyzing patterns of victimization of women within prisons.