O mercado de trabalho para egressos do sistema prisional

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to understand the relationship between the labor market and former inmates. To achieve this, the research followed three action fronts: bibliographical research of national and international literature on the subject; sociometric and professional history analysis of former inmates interviewed in the field research; and finally, a statistical analysis of SEJUSP - State Secretariat for Justice and Public Security databases, with data from former inmates enrolled in PrEsP - Program for the Social Inclusion of Former Inmates. The results of the field research on the life history of individuals who left the prison system, focused on their professional trajectory, combined with an analysis of the social networks of each interviewed related to opportunities in the job market for the studied public, showed that the accumulation of disadvantages in these individuals, such as the educational, economic, housing, family and professional experience, in addition to the situation of prejudice that these people have to face in their daily life, reflected on their social networks as well in their chances of entering the job market. Each one of these will hardly be bypassed by these workers, such as their educational level. Without efficient and ongoing work of government programs and ONGs, most of those interviewed will remain“condemned” to the same economic and professional situation. The outcome of the logistic regression corroborates the first research hypothesis, which states that there is an inequality in the chances between men and women and between black and white people to enter the labor market. In other words, some social characteristics of individuals, added to the fact that they have been released from the prison system, make it difficult for them to enter the labor market, in a kind of reinforcement of the accumulation of disadvantages Sampson and Laub (1997).