Standard Rape Cases in the Criminal Justice System in Campinas, São Paulo

Authors

  • Joana Domingues Vargas UFMG - Belo Horizonte - MG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S1414-49802008000200003

Abstract

 

This study presents a longitudinal analysis of the records found in the Women’s Defense Division of the Public Ministry and in the Criminal Courts of the municipality of Campinas, São Paulo State. The study identified both the characteristics of rape (the accused, victims and relations between them), as well as the processes of selection and filtering to which they are submit during their processing. The results found for Campinas reflect rape complaints found in international studies, which indicate that rape is a heterogeneous category, although the aggressors are invariably men and the victims young. On the other hand, when the criminal selection process is analyzed, a filtering of typologies is noticed, found in the complaint phase in three standards for the crime of rape: intrafamiliar, committed by an unknown aggressor and among youth who know each other.

Author Biography

Joana Domingues Vargas, UFMG - Belo Horizonte - MG

É Bacharel em História pela UnB (1986), Mestre em Antropologia Social pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1997) e Doutor em Sociologia pelo Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (2004), com Pós-doutorado na University of Texas at Austin (2005). Atualmente é Professora Adjunta do Departamento de Sociologia e Antropologia da UFMG, Pesquisadora do Centro de Estudos de Criminalidade e Segurança Pública (CRISP) da UFMG e Pesquisadora Associada do Núcleo de Estudos da Cidadania, Conflito e Violência Urbana (NECVU) da UFRJ.

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Published

2008-01-01

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2008): Violência: expressões na contemporaneidade

Section

Applied research

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