Maria da penha law and its inapplicability in the city of ibicuí –ba
International Journal of Development Research
Maria da penha law and its inapplicability in the city of ibicuí –ba
Received 06th April, 2018; Received in revised form 29th May, 2018; Accepted 17th June, 2018; Published online 30th July, 2018.
Copyright © 2018, Lumma Porto Peixoto Rodrigues and TâniaRocha Andrade Cunha. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Violence committed against women on the marital relation scope is a historical and cultural issue that still nowadays is part of Brazilian women’s reality. This issue becomes more complex, when facing the difficulties of measuring its social impact that is noticed in interior towns, due to the lack of records and statistics regarding the violence to the female gender. This way, this paper is the outcome of a research about domestic violence against women in the city of Ibicuí-BA. It is a qualitative research based on the on the analysis of semi-structured interviews with seven women victims of violence. As the work’s outcome, we have noticed that the lack of effective public policies and an effective protection network are factors that add up to the Law’s inapplicability, and it is harder for the victim to break the cycle of violence.
