Profile re-victimized women by violence domestic in the municipality of santarém – pará

International Journal of Development Research

Volume: 
08
Article ID: 
14730
6 pages
Research Article

Profile re-victimized women by violence domestic in the municipality of santarém – pará

Auricélia Costa de Aguiar Silva, Edson Marcos Leal Soares Ramos, Adrilayne dos Reis Araújo and José Luiz de Carvalho Lisboa

Abstract: 

In Brazil, violence is a behavior that generates a lot of concern in all its aspects and has indiscriminately affects all social classes, generation, and is seen as a highly complex problem with regard to solving them. The high rates of domestic violence against women in the country resulted in the creation of the Special Police in Assistance to Women and later was sanctioned Law Nº11.340/2006, called "Maria da Penha". Through this, we intend to show the profile of women re-victimized by domestic violence in Santarém city, Pará State, Brazil. For this, we used the technique descriptive analysis with the aim of describing the profile of re-victimized women in the period from 2011 to 2013. In which it was observed that most of the victims of gender violence has 18 and 24 years (27.00%) have incomplete primary education (32.99%), has the profession/occupation being a housewife (28.58%) and are single (48,00%). Most suffered threat (46.96%), followed by bodily injury (41.86%). Thus one can see that these women have a low level of education and dependent on the husband's income to support their children, becoming submissive and often end up leaving to register case against the same.

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