Prisión, género masculino y Trabajo Social: Una autorreflexión en torno a dimensiones a considerar

Abstract

We propose to analyze critically the need to reflect on three dimensions that affect prison as a social phenomenon and social work as a profession. I refer to the relationship between violence and the paradigm and the discourse of masculinities. This would imply the need to consider new paradigms that are consistent with the offer of treatment to the growing population of interned men-deprived of their liberty in Criminal Institutions. The traditional perspective views violence as a naturally masculine phenomenon by the very nature of masculinities. In this way, a link between violence and masculine gender is established that makes it necessary to re-think it, to re-focus it. It is a paradox or rather a contradiction that in societies dominated by men, they do not realize the impact and adverse effects of negative public policies of confinement on the violation of human and civil rights under the laws and exclusion and oppression, Versus the treatment proposed by the eventual reintegration into society.