Estratégias defensivas dos Oficiais de Justiça Avaliadores contra as violências relacionadas ao trabalho em Salvador-BA.

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of an investigation into protection strategies adopted by the probation officers of work-related violence in the city of Salvador-BA. The national literature points out that Justice Officers are subject to diferent forms of violence in their work, due to their external activities, as well as for dealing with complex matters of different kinds, whether criminal, family, among others. As theoretical support, we resort to studies related to the psychodynamics of work, which address the physical or psychological means of defense to which workers resort to the risks of work. We developed a qualitative, descriptive research, based on semi-structured individual interviews, carried out with six Assessor Justice Officers linked to the Central de Mandados de Salvador and who carry out their activities in different areas of the city, three of them female and three of them male. For data analysis, we used the thematic Content Analysis technique. The results indicate that Salvador's Justice Officers are subject to different types of violence related to work, which derive from both acts of the party, acts of third parties and/or actions of the administration itself. We also found that, in view of this situation, some individual or collective defensive strategies are used by workers, whose objective is to allow the work to be carried out satisfactorily, despite the adversities. We verified that such strategies are mobilized in the planning of diligences, during their execution, as well as in the moments when the professional is out of working hours. The research points to the need to create preventive measures in order to minimize work-related violence and its effects on the physical and mental health of Justice Officers who work in the Bahian capital.