Grupos reflexiivos para homens: estudo empírico da Vara de Violência Doméstica e Familiar de Feira de Santana/Bahia, ano de 2019

Abstract

This work addresses the reflective group for men at the Court of Domestic and Family Violence against Women in the District of Feira de Santana-Bahia. The Maria da Penha Law was created to curb cases of domestic violence against women and hold male perpetrators of violence accountable. With this in mind, the general objective of this work was to analyze the reflective groups held in the domestic and family violence against women court in Feira de Santana and their influence on the prevention of violence against women in that city. This is a case study with documentary and field research and a descriptive and reflective purpose. The research locus is in the aforementioned domestic violence court. Data collection covered the year 2019 and was carried out in two stages: a documentary stage, which consists of analyzing the legal processes of participants in the reflective groups, verifying in a quantitative approach, with the assembly of statistical graphs, the profile and the criminal reiteration of male perpetrators of violence participating in the reflective groups and a second qualitative stage, through a semi-structured interview with the facilitators of the groups held at the Women's Court of the District of Feira de Santana and the analysis of the content obtained from these professionals, also verifying whether the These groups help in the process of reframing violence and reiterating violence. In this way, the importance of breaking the cycle of violence and preventive and awareness-raising actions for men is clear.