FEMINICIDE AGAINST WOMEN POTIGUAR: AN ANALYSIS FROM 2011 TO 2019
Female Mortality; Violence Against Women; Feminicide
In Brazil, the Maria da Penha (2006) and Feminicide (2015) laws deal with violence against women. Although in Brazilian law they present different texts, they are complementary laws. The first aims to protect women who are victims of domestic violence, whether psychological, physical or moral, and although it does not define penalties for aggressors, it proposes protective measures to keep the aggressor away from the victim as well as the creation of a support network for women. The second, Feminicide, added an aggravating factor to the crime of homicide, transforming the murder of women into qualified homicide. Femicide is a murder of women because of their gender. The numbers of femicide records and denouncements against the aggressor are important indicators of women's safety, portraying the conditions of inequality in male-female relationships that permeate Brazilian society. In this context, a relevant question is: in which situations are there more risks of women being victims of violent crime in Rio Grande do Norte (RN)? The objective of this work is to explore the scenario of violent crimes against women and girls from the state of Paraná that imply death, to identify possible regional disparities and the socio-demographic profile of the victims. To this end, a review of the literature on the state of the art and consensus on the definition of violence against women will be carried out; a documentary search of data from Rede and Instituto OBVIO will be used. It is expected that the NB will show a high standard in relation to the national rate of lethal violence against women due to cultural elements and relatively lower human and educational development indicators compared to the rest of the country. Furthermore, it is argued that a society with such information is a step ahead to propose policies aimed at preventing and addressing this problem.