Companheiros de farda e suas companheiras de vida: violência como modo de ser/existir entre quatro paredes e suas repercussões na saúde

Abstract

Violence, which encompasses multiple concepts, can manifest itself in various forms in society, including gender-based violence. This mechanism of social relationships is projected into various aspects of life, including private relationships. Most studies on domestic violence seek answers to the causes, ways to prevent it, and strategies to promote autonomy that aim to help the victim escape the cycle. In other words, they focus on women. Few are dedicated to understanding the possible processes that can influence aggressive actions by men. However, this study does not target just any man. It is dedicated to understanding this phenomenon from the perspective of male military police officers, understanding domestic violence as one branch among several processes of violence that this specific group goes through and promotes. It focuses on the formation of masculinities as the basis for such construction, with pathways that go beyond legality, but also the health of these professionals. Thus, this work has the general objective of identifying how the PMBA acts in the prevention and repression of domestic violence in cases where police officers are the aggressors. And as specific objectives, to identify if and how the power relations associated with the imaginary of the military police reinforce domestic violence, to explain how the construction of hegemonic masculinity affects health in such a way as to turn military police officers into aggressors and to analyze the institutional mechanisms of prevention and repression of cases of violence, presenting actions and movements that aim at a reconstruction in the way we relate to each other produced by the PMBA in the form of the tripod: health, law and education. The methodology used was black feminist epistemology in conjunction with the Theory of Social Representations, since this path is consistent with the constructions through the sharing of various approaches. From the results we see that the construction of masculinity affects police officers when they act violently, predominantly in their relationships with ex-partners, as well as an increase in reports of domestic violence in the years 2022 and 2023. Finally, the actions offered by PMBA were presented, conducting health, education and law as a way of preventing domestic violence, through the Taking Care of Us Program.