Domesticidad carcelaria: cuidado y coacción optimista en hogares de reclusos, Chile
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2025
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Esta investigación examina cómo las políticas de prevención de la delincuencia en Chile implementan una forma particular de coacción optimista que opera a través de la gramática del cuidado en hogares afectados por el encarcelamiento. Frente a los familiares de personas encarceladas, el Estado chileno adopta una postura dual: los considera tanto potenciales fuentes de riesgo como víctimas necesitadas de asistencia y cuidado preventivo. Centrándose en las experiencias de mujeres jefas de hogar que participan en programas anti-delincuencia, el estudio revela cómo la domesticidad carcelaria funciona como un mecanismo de control que contiene espacial y temporalmente a poblaciones etiquetadas como propensas a conductas desviadas. Este concepto de domesticidad carcelaria se manifiesta como una forma de coacción que confina y estigmatiza el espacio doméstico de hogares de bajos ingresos. La investigación concluye que esta domesticidad carcelaria, inextricablemente vinculada a la policía del orden social, debe entenderse como un mecanismo para contener las tensiones que emergen de las desigualdades de género, las contradicciones de clase y la violencia colonia
This research examines how Chilean crime prevention policies deploy a distinctive form of optimistic coercion that operates through practices of care in households affected by incarceration. The Chilean state maintains an ambivalent stance toward prisoners’ families, simultaneously viewing them as potential risk factors and as victims requiring preventive intervention and care. Based on extensive fieldwork between 2017 and 2023 in incarcerated neighborhoods of Santiago, the study focuses on the experiences of female heads of household participating in anti-crime programs, revealing how carceral domesticity functions as a control mechanism that contains–both spatially and temporally–populations deemed prone to deviance. The concept of carceral domesticity illuminates how coercion operates by confining and stigmatizing domestic spaces in low-income communities. This research demonstrates that carceral domesticity, fundamentally intertwined with the policing of social order, serves as a mechanism for containing tensions arising from intersecting forms of inequality: gender hierarchies, class antagonisms, and colonial violence
This research examines how Chilean crime prevention policies deploy a distinctive form of optimistic coercion that operates through practices of care in households affected by incarceration. The Chilean state maintains an ambivalent stance toward prisoners’ families, simultaneously viewing them as potential risk factors and as victims requiring preventive intervention and care. Based on extensive fieldwork between 2017 and 2023 in incarcerated neighborhoods of Santiago, the study focuses on the experiences of female heads of household participating in anti-crime programs, revealing how carceral domesticity functions as a control mechanism that contains–both spatially and temporally–populations deemed prone to deviance. The concept of carceral domesticity illuminates how coercion operates by confining and stigmatizing domestic spaces in low-income communities. This research demonstrates that carceral domesticity, fundamentally intertwined with the policing of social order, serves as a mechanism for containing tensions arising from intersecting forms of inequality: gender hierarchies, class antagonisms, and colonial violence
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Familias de presos, Domesticidad carcelaria, Cuidado, Prevención, Coacción, Resistencia, Chile., Prisoners’ families, Carceral domesticity, Care, Prevention, Coercion, Resistance