Characterization of the feminicide in the city of Belém (PA)

• Autor(a) principal: Tolosa, Tatiane Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Chagas, Clay Anderson Nunes, Lima, Cristiane do Socorro Loureiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Segurança Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.forumseguranca.org.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/804
• topic: Violence, Gender, Woman; Violência; Gênero; Mulher

Violence against women has several faces, such as psychological, physical, moral and patrimonial. Since 2006, it has been judicially restrained by the Maria da Penha Law and, since 2015, by the Feminicide Law. This work aims to analyze the crime of feminicide in the municipality of Belém (PA), with a time frame from 2011 to 2015. A survey was carried out based on police reports and procedures regarding the death of women due to gender reasons violence involving domestic and family and contempt or discrimination to the condition of woman. For this, a descriptive analysis technique was used in order to illustrate how these deaths occur. With the results, it was found that crime occurs more frequently in the night, on weekends, with the location of the fact the residence, using a sharp weapon. As verified the affective relationship with the author, and violent relationship. Understanding the characteristics of femicides is necessary to support and evaluate public policies for the prevention, repression and confronting violence against women.