Representations of gender as well as police service to women victims of violence.

Authors

  • Lana Lage da Gama Lima Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)
  • Suellen André de Souza Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-1384.2009v6n2p61

Abstract

This paper proposes an analysis of practices of police assistance to women victims of gender violence in four police stations of the State of Rio de Janeiro, two of them  specialized in assisting with this type of conflict, located in the state capital, and two others, not specialized, located in the countryside. The creation of the Specialized Police Assistance to Women in the mid 80s was the result of pressure from the feminist movement over the government in the political context of democratization of the country after the military dictatorship. We emphasize the existence, in the daily routine of the police stations, of the confrontation among different representations on the nature of this conflict, and we have tried to analyze, in a comparative way, how this fact affects the police practices observed, in order to verify if the specialized police stations present practices of conflict management which are differentiated and more suitable to the conceptions that have guided their creation as public policy of gender.

 

Author Biographies

Lana Lage da Gama Lima, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)

Professora titular de História Social da Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF), onde coordena o Núcleo de Estudos de Exclusão e da Violência - NEEV.Possui graduação em História pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1973), mestrado em História pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (1977) e doutorado em História Social pela Universidade de São Paulo (1990). Foi professora do Departamento de História da Universidade Federal Fluminense, onde se aposentou em 1995.

 

Suellen André de Souza, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)

 

Mestranda em Sociologia Política na Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)


Published

2009-01-01

Issue

Section

Dossiê: A interdisciplinaridade nos Estudos de Gênero. Organização: Drª Joana Maria Pedro