“Tu não sabes do que eu sou capaz [...] me solta que eu quero matá-la”: um estudo sobre feminicídios, nas formas tentada e consumada, ocorridos em Pelotas/RS (2014-2022)

Abstract

This thesis is linked to the research line of the Graduate Program in History at UFPel, which aims to study “Trajectories: between identities, memory and social conflicts” and is related to a discussion about the way they are treated, in the Judiciary, the deaths of women, in the attempted and consummated forms, that took place in Pelotas/RS, between 2014 and 2022. a qualifying circumstance for the crime of homicide, which increases the penalty applied to murderers and also names the deaths that occur for reasons of the female condition, which were previously treated as homicide. The change in legislation also included the qualifier of feminicide in the list of heinous crimes, due to its severity. These murders of women, in most cases, result from sexist and misogynistic practices based on the idea of the superiority of men and violence, over time, has been the instrument used by many of them to try to ensure female submission. Throughout different historical periods, many women have been killed for these reasons. This situation continues to happen today, causing victims every day in different parts of the world. In an attempt to contain the genocide of women that occurs in Brazil, the Femicide Law was created with the aim of being yet another instrument to combat these deaths, as it is necessary to take into account that these types of crimes were naturalized and trivialized by part of the society. However, as this still happens, one of the reasons may be the fact that the effective confrontation that should exist on the part of the state entity does not occur, which has the duty to provide security and protect all citizens and therefore must assume a posture more combative to try to eradicate female deaths. The resources used in the research consisted in the use of the Document Analysis methodology to observe 26 judicial processes, between attempted and consummated feminicides, which were found in progress in the 1st Criminal Court of Pelotas and, through the Thematic Oral History, interviews were carried out with two agents of the Judiciary Power and with a police chief in order to know their views on the subject studied. The objective of the investigation was to observe the dynamics in which the crimes occurred and to verify how the State began to act in the solution of feminicides, after the entry into force of the new legal system. For this reason, the temporal cut of the research uses the History of the Present Time, which allows the analysis of recent facts. Data collection started to be done in procedural records referring to the deaths of women that happened in 2014, a year before the new law, and extended until 2022, in order to observe how these crimes were treated and what were the changes that occurred. in the solutions that came to be given to them after its effectiveness.