A CONVERSÃO RELIGIOSA COMO UM MEIO DETERMINANTE PARA A SOBREVIVÊNCIA NO CÁRCERE

Abstract

The research deals with the religious conversion phenomenon in the prison environment. It analyzes the consequences of religious conversion in a group of inmates in a medium security prison in the state of Espírito Santo. The dissertation presents an overview of the national and state prison system, where their subjects are inserted, through the assistance and legal benefits, especially religious assistance and other ways in which convicted prisoners may have access to express religion or religiosity in this system. Through literature establishes a religious conversion model for the prison and the field research with the prison population and actors of the prison system of the city of Colatina, northwest of the state of Espírito Santo draws a convicted internal profile and identifies the religious transit occurred during the incarceration period of 2005 until 2011. From the chosen model, separates the conversion of religious adherence and individualize mobility, raising the motivations of the converted prisoners. Notes, five years after, that be abandonment of religious affiliation chosen when the conversion took place in the prison, and raises questions about the use of religion by the actors of the criminal justice system and the condemned, through religious conversion as a means decisive for the survival in prison.