“Direito dos manos”: percepções sobre o sistema prisional brasileiro

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate whether the political position of an individual influences the conception of human rights of the incarcerated population. The online collection had the participation of 483 participants between 18 and 67 years old (M=29.3; SD=10.4), most of them female (53.8%), white (64.9%), high income (55.3%), and education (86.3%). They answered the Ideological Sympathy Scale and the Questionnaire on the Human Rights of the person deprived of liberty. It was found that, on average, participants agreed more with the liberalist view (M=12.7; SD=2.4) than the traditionalist view (M=5.8; SD=2.2) and most agreed with most of the rights, there was a correlation with statistical significance (p<0.001) between all the variables, and the liberalist political position presented a positive direction and the negative traditionalist with the assertions about human rights. The strength of the correlations were weak, explaining less than 10% of the association of the variables.