Abstract

SEGURADO, Nuno  and  MAGANO, Olga. Gypsy women, crime and adaptation to the prison environment. Sociologia [online]. 2014, n.tematico4, pp.97-115. ISSN 0872-3419.

Through a study of Gypsy woman inmates at the Prison of Tires, to comply effective feather, we tried to understand the type of crime associated and sought to know how the process of adaptation to the prison environment is. The methodology used is qualitative and quantitative, with content analysis of judicial decisions and the individual process of the Gypsy woman inmates, of the statistics available in the Prison Information System and the Prison records and some interviews. The overall results point to the practice of crime by economic problems and against property not linked a criminal organization

Keywords : female criminality; Gypsy women; adaptation.

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