Violence against women: the profile of the victim and the aggressor in São Luís - MA

Abstract

The research analyzed violence against women in São Luís-MA, tracing the profile of the victim and aggressor; and mapped the spatial distribution of the aggressions, through the issuance of protective measures by justice. Methodologies based on historical and dialectical materialism, gender discussions and intra-urban inequalities were used. Secondary data were used, from reports called “Social Research”, published between 2009 and 2019, by the 1st and 2nd Special Courts of Domestic and Family Violence against Women in the District of São Luís. The profile of women who are victims of domestic violence, mostly , are single and / or married, aged between 26 and 43 years old, mother of one or more children and without fixed income. The aggressors are between 26 and 34 years old, with different professions. Violent acts were practiced mostly by individuals who no longer have affective relationships with the victims and among the motivations for violence the non-conformity with the end of the relationship, jealousy, among others stands out. The spatial distribution of violence against women is heterogeneous in the intra-urban scale of the capital of Maranhão, revealing a certain social inequality, since most protective measures were granted to women living in poor and peripheral neighborhoods, but this does not mean that violence does not exist in the neighborhoods with the highest income population. Even with the increase in access to specialized services for reporting and protecting victims of gender violence, it is considered that they are still poorly distributed throughout the city.