Violência Doméstica e Justiça Restaurativa: percepções das servidoras das Varas especializadas de Salvador no ano de 2022

Abstract

This work investigates the relationship between domestic violence judicial proceedings and restorative justice. It uses a qualitative approach and descriptive statistics. The absence of restorative projects in the Domestic Violence Courts in Salvador/BA, despite the energetic and growing the National Council of Justice's stimulus given, indicates the importance of the research. Initially, the study carried a brief bibliographic review, which exposed the guidelines of policies for the prevention and repression of domestic and family violence against women, as well as the main aspects of restorative justice, its connections and oppositions to the punitive paradigm, and the discussion about the use of this methodology to face gender violence. Then, an empirical study was carried out that used, as methods, questionnaires sent to the specialized Courts and the Restorative Justice Center of the Court of Justice of the State of Bahia (TJBA), as well as semi-structured individual interviews with eight employees from the multidisciplinary service teams of the judicial units. The objective was to understand, from the perspective of Symbolic Interactionism (BLUMER, 1980), how the interviewees interpret and intuit restorative justice in the field of domestic and family violence against women. Data analysis indicated the main arguments for or against the use of restorative justice in the management of violence, and the possible strategies for the methodology to be demystified, known by actors in the justice system and by society in general, and applied in its true essence.