Gendered Punishment Practices Performed on Female Adolescents in their Passage through the Uruguayan Juvenile Justice System

Authors

  • Laura López-Gallego

Keywords:

female adolescents, incarceration, Uruguayan juvenile justice system, gender, non-custodial measures, adolescentes mujeres, privación de libertad, sistema penal juvenil uruguayo, género, medidas no privativas de libertad

Abstract

This article is based on two research studies conducted on the Uruguayan Juvenile Justice System (UJJS); the first study (2011) examined female adolescent incarceration contexts, and the second one (2016) focused on female adolescents in their passage through a program of non-custodial measures. This research is aimed at understanding gendered punishment practices performed on women who are subjected to judicial measures in the UJJS, in order to give visibility to an issue that is usually silenced, among other reasons because the number of women subjected to these measures is low and due to a hegemonic male model in adolescent offense construction. Following a qualitative methodology research, combined with an ethnographic approach, I discuss the singularities characterizing the passage of female adolescents through the UJJS, by applying two strategies: (re)constructing a lost domesticity and managing bodies and sexualities.

El presente artículo surge de dos investigaciones realizadas en el sistema penal juvenil uruguayo (SPJU); la primera (2011) aborda los contextos de privación de libertad de las adolescentes mujeres, la segunda (2016) trabaja con las adolescentes mujeres en su pasaje por un programa de medidas no privativas de libertad. Los objetivos de estas investigaciones buscan conocer las prácticas de castigo generizadas destinadas a las mujeres que cumplen medidas judiciales en el SPJU, de modo de visibilizar una temática que tiende a ser acallada, entre otras cosas por el escaso número de mujeres que transitan por estas medidas y por el modelo hegemónico masculino en las construcciones de la infracción adolescente. A través de una metodología cualitativa de investigación, con enfoque etnográfico discuto las singularidades de los tránsitos de las adolescentes por el SPJU, a través de dos estrategias; la (re)construcción de la domesticidad perdida y la gestión de los cuerpos y las sexualidades.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1070

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López-Gallego, L. (2020) “Gendered Punishment Practices Performed on Female Adolescents in their Passage through the Uruguayan Juvenile Justice System”, Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 10(2), pp. 313–331. Available at: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1140 (Accessed: 29 March 2024).