DEAM-WEST-RJ (2006-2016): FEMINISMS, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND LAW MARIA DA PENHA
Law 11,340/06; DEAM-Oeste; public policy; violences; women.
The purpose of this study is, through analysis and research, to respond to the following Research Problem: How the state of Rio de Janeiro faces, through the DEAM-Oeste, the violence suffered by women who resort to this organ with the intent solve their demands. The research aims to verify how the state contends, through the DEAMs as a public policy, the violence suffered by women. The time cut used here was the period from 2006 to 2016, since this time allows establishing a historical milestone regarding the emergence of Law 11.340/06 (Maria da Penha Law) that came to determine the crimes committed against women and their respective sanctions. To adopt the West Zone as a space cut, here, it is justified by it to house a significant amount of communities and prisons of maximum security; because about 1.5 million people live in the region; composed of 40 neighborhoods, not to mention that it is an area of great circulation of people, so full of customs, negotiations and cultural conflicts. for being an area of transition to the wealth and luxury of the Barra da Tijuca and Recreio dos Bandeirantes condominiums, which even dictate the status quo to the other neighborhoods that make up the region. Imported cars, hectic social life, clothing and brand products, services etc. all this makes the West Zone a multiple place, because it makes it possible to divide the region into several fields of observation. The methodology adopted in this research consisted basically of bibliographic research, documentary and field research. The first ones were carried out during the doctorate; on the second, it is worth noting that for the collection of these data, I attended the DEAM-Oeste for almost two and a half years (concomitantly with the doctorate, from February 2014 to July 2016). The ethnographic work carried out here consisted of a set of procedures whose scope was to account for the description, inscription and transcription of the experiences lived at the DEAM-Oeste, through my direct participation, as an observer, in that environment that was intended to be known. The choice to do a doctorate in history to discuss violence against women, connected to the DEAM-Oeste and law 11.340 / 06, was justified, for the following reasons: firstly, the social relevance of the theme; second, by the gain in the political field, since this investigation produced knowledge about the DEAM, as a public policy made by the state of Rio de Janeiro in the face of violence against women; Third, the research has brought benefits to the epistemological field (in general, since it has provided empirical data on the structure and functioning of the DEAM-West, in addition to deepening the reflections on concepts such as “violence”, “gender”, “feminism” and “Relations of power”, specifically for history, this research was useful, as it historicized the DEAM-West and the applicability of the Maria da Penha Law and the violence against women.In the course of this investigation, dialogue with other areas of knowledge , such as anthropology, sociology, psychology, medicine, law, social service, among others.