COMPLIANCE AND RESOCIALIZATION: NEW PATHS FOR MEN OFFENDERS AND THE LAW MARIA DA PENHA
Violence; gender; masculinities.
This work proposes a reflection about a phenomenon of social violence, using the concept of genre to analyze some criminal cases of men convicted after perpetrating aggressions against women. The genre codes internalized through the process of socialization define relations of tension and conflicts between men and women as they play roles to occupy the areas of social relations. Maria da Penha Law brings new alternatives for active combat against women violence and requires the creation of educational programs and resocialization for male aggressors, so their behaviors can change, and a relapse avoided. This work is built taking as base recent studies that show another concept of masculinity different from the "hegemonic masculinity". Analyzingsemistructured interviews with male aggressors and victims of crimes occurred in Apodi, a city of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, during the years of 2016 and 2017, it became possible to learn which social representations define the ruling habits on the social roles given to the men and women involved in the criminal occurrences.