Abstract

CHAVEZ TORRES, Martha  and  ANANOS-BEDRINANA, Fanny T.. Women in Spanish Prisons. Violence, Conflicts, and Actions for Peace Process. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2018, vol.39, n.155, pp.9-41. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v39i155.313.

The manifestations of violence and conflict analyzed in this article are based on empirical data from 538 questionnaires applied to women held in prisons in Spain’s eleven Autonomous Communities, classified as being in the second or third stage of completing their sentences, under two regimens: ‘ordinary’ and ‘open life’. The survey was conducted as part of the project Drug-addict women inmates. Data were systematized in IBM 15 and SPPS 20, and statistical analyses were both descriptive and inferential. The aims of the study were to demonstrate the interdependence between violence and conflict, recount manifestations of this dyad in the prisons, and elucidate the proposals for solutions elaborated by both the women inmates themselves and prison officials; actions that generated a complex and tense peace process. The essay ends with a discussion of the social importance of penitentiary education in the context of a culture of peace that seeks to transform conflict.

Keywords : prison; gender; violence; conflict; peace culture.

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