Violência Doméstica e Vitimologia

Análise do ciclo de violência à luz das questões de gênero

Abstract

This research addresses a structural problem that victimizes Brazilian women, being mistakenly interpreted as a legal issue. The work discusses the cycles of violence that the victim of domestic violence is subjected to, being analyzed from a victimological and intersectional perspective, considering that domestic violence normally happens in an intimate environment, and as a result of this factor, the victim is unable to identify that she is immersed in a cycle and does not report her attacker. The cycle of violence will be analyzed based on the Theory of the Cycle of Violence created by psychologist Lenore Walker, who divided it into three phases: moment of tension, moment of aggression and honeymoon. Therefore, the research problem is the following question: in what way, in addition to the positive right, is it possible to help women escape the cycle of violence? The objective of the work is to demonstrate the cycle of violence from an intersectional perspective to point out the ineffectiveness of the Law in solving this problem. The methodology used will be deductive, starting from the general premise that domestic violence is a structural problem, to the specific premise that the law alone does not help the victim to escape the cycle of violence, requiring a support network beyond the legal sphere.  It is concluded that treating domestic violence as a strictly legal issue does not solve the problem since coping does not only imply legal assistance.