Gender criminalization and performativity crime
Criminalization; gender; performativity
This thesis intends to investigate the uses of the concept of gender in the analysis of criminalization and its effects on the understanding of criminalization itself. To achieve the proposed objective, I preliminarily carried out a systematic bibliographical review of studies on criminalization and gender in order to identify the effects on the way discourses on this phenomenon are elaborated. The sample consisted of master's dissertations, doctoral theses, and scientific articles. Preliminarily, the works were cataloged in 4 (four) categories, with at least 4 (four) works being analyzed in each item in order to understand the uses of gender and the effects on reflection on the criminalization process. Ethnography and the reconstitution of scenes of criminalization of transvestites as an analytical tool are used strategically to highlight the limits of these productions and the need to broaden the field of intelligibility, as well as the power that the limit has. It was possible to preliminarily conclude the predominance of binary and heteronormative modes in the way of producing knowledge about criminalization processes. Thus, this thesis seeks to promote approximations around the concept of performativity by Judith Butler (2015, 2018, 2022) to elaborate the contours of how the performance of the crime takes place. I assume as the object of the thesis the idea of crime as performativity. In this way, attention to the effects of the use of gender in the reflection on criminalization allows us to understand how this phenomenon is constituted within a gender norm that establishes specific contours for criminalization itself, this process being visible through the experiences of criminalization of transvestites.