The profile of domestic violence in the municipality of São José da Tapera/AL: a descriptive and propositive study for its different ways of manifestation

Abstract

Domestic violence is a relevant theme worldwide. In Brazil, the numbers registered are alarming, in all its forms of manifestation, presenting themselves as more common, to the point of becoming naturalized, psychological and physical violence. The main objective is to demonstrate the manifestation of this phenomenon in the municipality of São José da Tapera, in the State of Alagoas. The article presents a hypothetical-deductive approach methodology, starting from the analysis of one of its most recurrent manifestations, gender violence, and then analyzing the judicial processes and identifying the profile of the aggressors, the victims, the forms of violence suffered by the victims. (physical, emotional or psychological, moral, sexual and patrimonial), as well as aspects related to the procedural process. Based on the results obtained, which demonstrate worrying rates of occurrence of the studied phenomenon, alternatives were presented to the constituted powers, in the sense of formulating public policies aimed at education, protection of victims and accountability of aggressors.