Punir, Proteger, Prevenir? : a Lei Maria da Penha e as limitações da administração dos conflitos conjugais violentos através da utilização do direito penal

Abstract

This thesis attempts to identify the consequences of the choice made by Law 11.340 / 06 (Maria da Penha Law) which uses the criminal justice system as a mechanism for administration of violent conflict against women and also sought to understand whether this option considers the complexity involved in these conflicts, meeting the demands of women in situations of violence who seek state aid to manage them. The main objective was to study how the functioning of the different care and protection services performed by the Civil Police, Military Police and Judiciary in Porto Alegre - RS, and what the consequences of the Law option for both women situation of violence met, and for the institutions activated to the formal processing of cases. The hypotheses are a) the violent conflicts that result in victimization of women in their home environment have a specificity as delivery mechanisms offered by the criminal justice system are not able to consider; b) the choice of criminal hardening, which has characterized the current context of punitive demand from social movements, is connected with the state adherence to the punitive populism and regulative state model development and c) the use of criminal law as a means to ensure gender equality and prevent violence implies harm to the administration of domestic and family conflicts, since the criminal logic colonizes all the mechanisms aimed at preventing violence and guarantee of rights.