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| Author(s): |
Beatriz Accioly Lins
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2014-10-03 |
| Examining board members: |
Heloisa Buarque de Almeida;
Guita Grin Debert;
Ana Lúcia Pastore Schritzmeyer
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| Advisor: | Heloisa Buarque de Almeida |
| Abstract | |
With the enactment of Law No. 11.430/2006 (Maria da Penha Law), Brazil substantially changed the legal classification of the criminalization of domestic violence cases, modifying the assessment and treatment, in the police and legal spheres, of these offenses. The text of the new law criminalizes and punishes more rigorously situations that, in the past, were subject to a generic scope of legislation considered by its critics as vulnerable to the reproduction of gender inequalities. Through the expedient of two Womens Police Stations (DDMs) in the city of São Paulo, I investigate the changes and uses that the promulgation of the Maria da Penha Law have brought to the police practice inside these specialized organs of the Civil Police (responsible for the care of women victims of violence), and how these changes are linked to perceptions of gender, family, marriage and justice operated by the police. This dissertation does not aim to assess the correct application of the legal norm, but tries to understand the law as dynamic, plastic, polymorphous and polysemous experience, whose meanings and uses may change and transform through the practices of different professionals. It is about questioning the law not in its formal text: but the implicit, implied and interpretive meanings it has, in other words, to read the Maria da Penha Law between the lines. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/09173-2 - The law between the lines: Lei Maria da Penha Law and the police work in two women's police stations in São Paulo |
| Grantee: | Beatriz Accioly Lins de Almeida |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |