P105. Sport as a strategy to improve the quality of life of women in prison

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Abstract

The aim of this project is for a group of adult female prisoners to carry out sports activities included in the programmes offered by their respective prisons, whether recreational or competitive, in order to check what changes occur in an estimated period of time by carrying out these activities on a regular and constant basis. After selecting a sample of prisons and obtaining a sample of inmates who agree to participate in the study, questionnaires will be given to learn about aspects of their lives and detect possible victimizations prior to conviction. Subsequently, the sample will be divided into two in each of the prisons, forming control and treatment groups. The participants in the treatment group will be monitored to find out their involvement in carrying out sports activities.
Once the estimated time has ended, discussion groups and in-depth interviews will be conducted with those women with whom we worked in the first part of the study. In this way, information will be obtained from women prisoners who have participated in sports activities and those who have not, to know if their speech, their perception of well-being, their expectations, sense of empowerment and their attitudes are different between both groups (control-treatment) in relation to the first collection of information.
In this way, quantitative and qualitative data will be available that bring us closer to the reality of women prisoners, a multifaceted and complex reality due to their situation as criminals, how society sees them and how they see themselves. The flag of this proposal is to know if these women can be empowered through sport.

Author

• MARÍA JOSÉ BENÍTEZ JIMÉNEZ, University of Malaga