Violência Infantojuvenil Intrafamiliar no contexto da pandemia de Covid-19 em Salvador, Bahia

Abstract

Introduction – COVID-19, a disease derived from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, began in 2019 in Wuhan, China, spread rapidly around the world and imposed social isolation on humanity. Initially proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020 to prevent the disease and reduce contamination by the coronavirus. Parallel to the COVID-19 pandemic, another was revealed: intra-family child and youth violence. The environment that should serve as protection, the home, has become the place for various types of violence and homicides. Objective – To analyze the occurrence of intra-family child and youth violence during the COVID-19 pandemic, from 2020 to 2021, in the municipality of Salvador, Bahia. Materials and methods – Secondary sources were used, containing data from January 2018 to December 2021, provided by the Police Statistical Documentation Coordination (CDEP), of records of violence committed against children and adolescents aged 0 to 17 years, in order sequentially, in the city of Salvador-BA. Initially, the prevalence of different types of violence characterization of the victims' sex and age group were observed through descriptive analysis of the variables. Results – 1560, 1959, 1504, and 1362 child and adolescent criminal incidents were recorded in the city of Salvador – BA, in the respective years 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. There was a significant association between the year of the crime, the nature of the violence perpetrated against children and adolescents, the age group of the victim, as well as color/ethnicity. Conclusion – Given the complex problem in which violence is structured, it is essential that the public authorities guarantee compliance with laws already established and advance public policies from basic care to curricular components in basic education, including universities so that professionals are qualified to deal with this phenomenon.