A lei Maria da Penha e a vítima que desiste do processo judicial: uma análise discursiva da denúncia in loco

Abstract

The aim of our study is to analyze the discourses of complainant women of domestic violence complaints against their attackers in the First Precinct Defence and Women's Rights in Maceió (Woman Police Station). The corpus was organized from the collection of testimonies of women who reported police (Bulletin of Ocurrence – B.O.). This collection was made on the spot and divided in two stages: first, the complaint recorded during the filling of the B.O., following to that, interviews were executed with victims. We adopt for the execution of our work, Discourse Analysis (DA) from French Michel Pêcheux. Thus, our analysis is to understand, through the categories of DA, how the testimonies of the victims mean and how people who produce the discourse are affected by the senses that are in the historicity of the word in its ideological character. We seek also to identify, in the speeches of the interviewees, evidence of a possible withdrawal of them to institute proceedings against their abusers. Maria da Penha Law (11.340/06) entered into force in the second half of 2006. It ensures, for victims, protection against attacks and also punishment for the perpetrators. However, we had previously the knowledge that over 70% of complainants give up following the procedure in the police station, a fact which was ratified in our study, because 16 of the 20 women interviewed gave up the process. By analyzing the discourses, we find that these are inscribed in patriarchal-capitalist-ideological formation and are predominantly crossed by a sexist/patriarchal discursive formation. We concluded that the reason for this is because the society is governed by the androcentrism. Thus, the abandonment of the process occurs as a result of patriarchal social order to which women are subjected.