Feminicídio, interseccionalidade e comoção: estudo de caso de processos-crime registrados em Montes Claros (2014-2021)

Abstract

In November 2018, in the city of Montes Claros, fifty lay people were summoned, under the terms of the law, to compose the Jury Court in six trials. Two of which occurred on the 13th and 29th of November, respectively, involved the murder of two women.: Sara and Ramone. Although the two crimes were tried by the same court,with a difference of only 15 (fifteen) days between one trial and another, the media repercussion and the sentences attributed to the defendants were very different, one of them was sentenced to 30 years in prison and the other to 15 years. What calls our attention is the fact that, apparently, the cases are very similar, considering the seriousness of the crime, the relationship between killer and victim, the apparent motivation, the location of the facts and the mode of operation. In this research,We questioned whether the social markers of the victims, especially those of social class and race, and the media repercussion produced effects on the accountability of the defendants and the attribution of sentences in their judgments. Faced with this event, the object of research contemplated in this work is the phenomenon of feminicide from the State Judge's response to this phenomenon, after the publication of the law that instituted femicide as a qualified form of homicide and recognized it as a heinous crime on 09 March 2015. We selected as historical sources the criminal proceedings filed under number: 0433.14.029.087-8 (TJMG, 2014) and number: 0433.16.012.807-3 (TJMG, 2016), both from the Jury Court of the Comarca de Montes Claros, who, respectively, investigated and tried the killers of Sara and Ramone; six reports produced by Rede Globo de Televisão, published on Portal de Notícias G1, and by Rede Record de Televisão, aired on Portal de Notícias R7. In view of the distinct nature of the two groups of selected sources, for the analysis of the documents of the criminal processes, the evidentiary methodological paradigm was used.; and for the analysis of the reports, the Social Representation Theory, developed by Roger Chartier (1991), was used. We critically analyzed the results of the processes, relating the blaming of the agents of the chosen processes represented not only by the penalties, but by the social reprimand evidenced in the commotion, always considering the theoretical assumptions of gender, race and class violence in an intersectional perspective. Thus, by inserting itself within the scope of gender research, this work aims to contribute to feminist epistemology, highlighting the weaknesses of the judicial structure for the repression of femicide crimes, based on the analysis of the blame logic.