Os crimes passionais, as teses de defesa e as teses de acusação : (des) construindo discursos

Abstract

The presented dissertation entiled: The crimes of passion, the defense thesis and prosecution arguments : (de) constructing discourses represents a study about the issue of passion crimes in today's society, from the survey conducted in five cases of felonies against life, ocurred in Rio Grande city, which were a jury in the first of the XXI century. There were three consummated homicides and two attempted murders of men against womem, still bringing to society the question of gender violence and patriarchal setting of this society. We used as a research method the Qualitive Content Analysis in which are identitied the categories and units of analysis present in the discourse of theses. Our central research problem is to understand why these crimes remain occuring and the ways in which discourses are constructed and legitimized. This way, the jealousy, the violent emotion, the defendant's pasr life and self-defense (of honor) are recurrent in the discourses we analyzed. these arguments are grounded on the part of the defense of defendants who appropriate it to strengthen the arguments of the defense and by the arguments of prosecution to discualify them within the processes. The exercice of discursive construction and deconstruction by selecting the categories and units of analysis enables also building a speech that ends up questioning the society itself.