Maternity in a prison for juvenile offenders. A sociocultural review for this non-located process

Abstract

In this article, we analyze a miority within a minority, adding the variable of the matenity: offender juvenile pregnant or mothers. This group, due to its exceptionality, deserves to be studied, to clarify its contexts, meaning and to improve our work with them. For this, we will show a journey from de current regulations to the social work, ending whith some conclusions from anthropology to show the main aspects about the ma(pa)ternity, the pregnant, the labour and the upbringing inside of a prison for juvenile offenders. An institution where the sentences have to be implemented and this social process change into a fundamental cultural variable to these group as a decontextualized a new social role. With this environmental context we analyze how these cultural categories have been reinterpreted, re-signified or they have new approaches with the main aim to know another speeches and practices in the maternity sociocultural process.