Between the warrior mother and the true mother : mother’s experience in caring for their young accused sons and doughters at custody hearings in Salvador, Bahia.

Abstract

This work is about a doctoral research that seeks to understand the experience of mothers of young people between 18 and 29  years old accused of drug trafficking, assault, robbery and/or treft, who are arrested in flagrant delicto and sent to the Custody Hearing Court of the District os Salvador/Bahia. The study aims to feature the narrative of the mothers about the accompaniment and care for their sons and daugthers in the hearings, and later, when they’re sentenced to conditional release, in order to understand the emotional, social and economic impacts on their lives, and their understanding of the process of criminalization of their sons and daugthers through the institutional itineraries and dynamics followed. The research is being conducted using a qualitative methodology, with direct observation, semi-structured interviews and document analysis, in order to understand the dynamics that transform the reproductive work performed by the mothers into activism and the fight for justice and the guarantee of the rights to their sons and daugthers.