Mujeres y delitos violentos. Una mirada desde las relaciones de poder y estatus

Abstract

Background: worldwide Mexico is the sixth country with more saturated jails of the world with 257,000 prisoners. The State of Mexico is in second place nationally with a total of 17 694 prison population where there is human overpopulation 70.48%. Crime is a social problem that has been addressed from a gender perspective, political, economic, anthropological, criminal law, clinical psychology, criminology and psychiatry. A leading researcher who has developed numerous studies on violence, crime and prison institutions especially from a gender perspective is Azaola. However, the absence of sociological research and look for peace is perceived, this led to conduct this study with theorists such as Kemper, Bericat, Foucault and Galtung.

Methodology: the sample was convicted of the total female population that is being held in the State of Mexico, which were applied questionnaires (quantitative phase) and participant observation (qualitative phase) was performed.

Results: women who make up the sample whose power and status were insufficient hatched negative emotions because they were perceived forced, and therefore urged them to commit violent crime towards what dominates and controls them, without their cognition and emotional management managed to contain them. The crime always presented together with at least one type of violence.

Conclusions: violent crime is a form of resistance to the struggle of forces, by which they intend to solve the latent and/or manifest conflicts when the solution seems impossible through higher cognitive and/or legal processes. The possibility that humans solve certain kinds of conflict is closely related to the level of social cognition, emotional management and symbolic capital that is counted.