Feministas em primeira pessoa: análise das políticas criminais de enfrentamento à violência contra a mulher no Brasil

Abstract

This study is a theoretical examination of the role of feminist movements in making political demands to address violence against women in Brazil and how these efforts have been perceived in the arena of human rights advocacy. The research aims to explore how feminist movements shape and assess institutional strategies to combat violence against women, understand the emergence and establishment of a feminist agenda to address this issue, analyze how and which feminist demands have been absorbed by the Brazilian State, and study the criticisms of these strategies as well as potential contradictions highlighted by criminology that is critical of feminist movements, drawing on theoretical analysis. The assumption is that the State is committed to patriarchal values, leading to institutional sexism that obstructs women's access to justice and demonstrates the reluctance of public justice and security personnel to intervene in cases of violence against women. The research concludes that the State selectively incorporates the demands of feminist movements, with a preference for punitive measures within its symbolic framework. The State's punitive nature suggests a negative selectivity, rationalizing the criminal system's non-intervention in cases of violence against women and effectively immunizing the perpetrators of violence through the reversal of criminalization processes. Finally, the research advocates for the potential development of a feminist criminology that embraces a critical and minimalist perspective on the penal system, with an emphasis on progressive penal abolitionism.