"Se você não for minha, não será de mais ninguém" : a violência de gênero denunciada na DEAM/Vitória-ES (2002 a 2010)

Abstract

The violence in the city of Vitória is a social phenomenon that is growing all the time and thousands of women suffer physical aggression or otherwise just because they are women. By the creation of Specialized Police Station for Women Assistance from Vitória (DEAM/Vitória), many of them began to report their abusers in order to put an end to this violence. The complaints records were made in police reports which become state’s property and can be used as source for the study of violence against women in the city of Vitoria. This research uses the police reports recorded in that police station from 2002 to 2010, as main documental source and the goal of this study is to understand the main reasons why victims suffered violence from those who they had or they have had an affectionate relationship. Among the 12,085 police reports recorded the studied periodin were selected 7,974 whose denounced aggressors were husbands or ex-husbands, boyfriends or ex-boyfriends, partners or ex-partners of the victims of the attacks. For the realization of this work was used monographic methodology because the same permit the implementation of a empirical research focused to elucidate the background and its relationship with the object of study, in a total perspective. Through a qualitative observation of sources, it is performed an analysis of the narration given by the victims to the police at the time of the complaints records. The results demonstrate that the most commonly reasons described by women for violence committed by their partner or ex-partner are related to behavioral and ideological imperatives of the patriarchal society that persists in the new millennium. Analysis of the reports shows how gender identity standards, forged by a male-dominated society, can permeate the emotional relationships, motivating and legitimizing the reproduction of gender violence.