A judicialização das relações sociais : tensões entre o campo jurídico e as expectativas das mulheres vítimas de violência doméstica e familiar na 3ª Vara Criminal de Pelotas/RS (2009-10)

Abstract

The focus of this paper is to study the "legalization of social relations" from the publicprivate dichotomy found in cases of domestic violence taken for the analysis of the Judiciary. Intends to examine the motives that lead women "victims" of domestic violence and family of the 3rd Criminal Court to drop out or not to proceed to the demands aimed at responsabilization of "aggressors". It is believed that the verification of internal tensions and the criminal justice field, its relation with the tensions inherent in the social field of the "victims", could yield clues to understand the question before. It was concluded that the actors that make up each of the fields see the crimes of different ways, according to the internal logic of each system (social or legal)