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Describe crimes, decipher narrative conventions: an ethnography among the official documents of the Women's Police Station of Campinas in cases of rape and violent indecent assault attack

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Author(s):
Larissa Nadai
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Examining board members:
Maria Filomena Gregori; Adriana de Resende Barreto Vianna; Guita Grin Debert
Advisor: Maria Filomena Gregori
Abstract

This dissertation aims to investigate the official documents produced by the Women's Police Stations (DDM) in Campinas in cases of rape and indecent assault occurred in 2004 and 2005. Through an ethnography of those documents I sought to understand the narrative and bureaucratic form by the way these acts are transformed into crimes and also to understand how sexuality becomes a specialized Civilian Police interventional field in Campinas. Aiming to outline the ways in which police investigations are produced, the heart of this research is in the written procedures used by professionals. These are letters, requests, reports, findings, terms of statements and Occurrences Reports. These forms of narrative show up the narrative conventions that serve as foundation for the writing and also the mechanisms by which police work is performed. Therefore, either through a technical writing next to detective tasks either by a sensitive and empathetic way of writing about children's suffering or by the one who puts in suspension what is said in cases of crimes wrapped in infrafamiliares conflicts, the art of writing the police's office that will gain prominence in this dissertation. However, there are badges, stamps and signatures that cross the police investigations and are also essential in this research because they put in evidence the plots in which the institutional specialized police Campinas is immersed. Undoubtedly it's by papers and through them that the police communicate with institutions such as Criminal Forum of Campinas, Institute of Forensic Medicine and Institute of Criminology of the city.But it is also through these same roles that the DDM communicates rapes and violent assaults to the judiciary. In the pages of this dissertation we are enmeshed in the stories of women like Marcelas, Joanas, Madalenas e Martas, as well as the abuse's stories of minors as Anas, Carolinas, Julianas and Lucas. It is through them that men like João, Ricardo, Valmir, Antonio, José, Gilberto and Aldair enter into the bureaucratic intricacies of the Civilian Police as investigated or indicted authors (AU)

FAPESP's process: 08/08905-4 - Mindful readings, invisible speeches: how the rape is built as sexual crime?
Grantee:Larissa Nadai
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master