Permanências e mudanças : uma análise sobre a efetividade da Lei Maria da Penha a partir da experiência dos profissionais do Centro de Referência de Atendimendo à Mulher em situação de violência de Tobias Barreto/SE

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Maria de Fátima Silva
• Orientador(a): Cruz, Maria Helena Santana
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social
• Palavras-chave em Português: Brasil - Lei n. 11.340, de 7 de agosto de 2006; Violência contra as mulheres; Mulheres; Planejamento político; Políticas públicas; Gênero; Violência doméstica; Lei Maria da Penha; Rede de Atendimento; Political planning; Women; Assistência social
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/6190

The current work aims at analyzing the effectiveness of the Law n. 11.340/2006 (Maria da Penha Law or MPL, in Portuguese) using as reference the actions developed by the professional technical team of the Regional Resource Center for Woman Support in Tobias Barreto/SE (CREAM, in Portuguese), a center that works with women inserted in violent contexts. There is a belief that feminism, through pro-women activism, drove studies and generated visibility to domestic violence. However, questions remain on the ´´side effects´´ of this sensitization and awareness-raising: the number of reports on violent episodes indeed grew or does the Maria da Penha Law, as a public policy on combatting such type of violence, not show effectiveness in facing this issue, when confronted with the growth on the number of notifications of domestic violence episodes having women as targets. This growth is visible in numbers released by research institutes and promoted by local and national media, in Sergipe and Brazil. The feminist theory has been adopted in this study, highlighting the need to address gender issues when analyzing violence against women, especially due to the fact that gender constructions compose the cultural experience of this phenomenon. In terms of methodology, qualitative research through Case Study has been chosen to produce knowledge and understand the object. Different sources of information have been consulted: theoretical, documentary and oral ones, this last one through a semi-structured interview conducted between September and October 2013, with three members of the technical team (the centre coordinator, the social worker and the psychologist) working on the CREAM unit of Tobias Barreto/SE. Data gathered and relevant literature point out that there has indeed been an increase on the number of reports of domestic violence and relationship abuse that reveal the strategies of male domination over women, reflecting the role of a society actor known and legitimized as the ´´strong gender´´, holder of the power in conjugal relations. What guides and normalizes abuse in conjugal relations is the understanding of violence as a consequence of the male-female relations. The notion of gender paired up with biological traits associates masculinity to the male-hunter function and femininity to reproduction, generating a gender-based labor division that assigns the productive tasks to men and the reproductive ones to women, handing more power to the latter. The interviews conducted also exposed the fragility of the training of the professional team working to implement the MPL, a cultural reflex of a society based on a patriarchal and sexist mentality. This constitutes one of the biggest hindrances for MPL´s effectiveness when it comes to consolidating a process of cultural and of mentality change for those who work with the law in the context researched, on actions supporting women inserted in violent environments. Finally, the study highlights the need to allocate more financial resources and to consolidate multi-sector cooperation for public policies in order to reduce gender inequalities and build a more fraternal, equal and fair.