Papéis de gênero em processos criminais de violência contra mulheres

Abstract

The present work is intent to identify nouns and adjectives that designate gender roles in statements contained in criminal cases of Maria Penha law. For that were selected twenty three cases through documentary research implemented at Fórum Gonçalves Chaves Montes Claros / MG , subsequently it was done a content analysis and categorization of nouns and adjectives found involving attacked women and perpetrators. Other objectives are: to investigate if are there evidences in criminal cases of influences on penal decisions for mitigating and aggravating in the case according to gender roles, and to make the profile of the perpetrators from survey of variables of gender, age, education, occupation. Among the reviewed criminal cases, the tendency was to refer offenders in their statements to women through the explicit presence of nouns and / or adjectives that describe gender roles linked to deprecating image of women. The perpetrators are cited as aggressive and alcohol and other drugs users. Before the collected and analyzed data it is concluded that gender roles are cultural constructions discernible by social hierarchies, where the man plays a role of domination subjecting women to various types of aggression.