Abstract

HELENA; CUNICO, Sabrina Daiana  and  E SILVA, Martinho B. B.. Impacts of the pandemic on a virtual community of prisoners' family members. Psicol. teor. prat. [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.1, pp. 1-33. ISSN 1516-3687.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1980-6906/ePTPC1913802.

From a virtual community, we aim to understand the pandemic's psychosocial impacts on prisoners' family members. We seek to know the news articles shared within the community and analyze likes, shares, and commentaries of these texts among its participants. For 15 weeks, we collected data, finding 65 news articles, which were divided into three analytical categories. We observed that, without access to the prison, families suffered, with greater intensity, previously experienced concerns. We also realized that the psychosocial impacts of the pandemic are not uniform among participants. Family income and the possibility of communication with the arrested relative should be taken into account in this analysis. The virtual interactions show the strength of this group, consolidating the virtual community as a support network. The struggle involves structural transformations, in which the State would fully assume its role in penal treatment.

Keywords : families; prison; COVID-19; psychosocial impacts; social network.

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