Acesso das mulheres à justiça: uma reflexão sobre intervenções educativas com autores de violência doméstica

Abstract

Based on empirical, inductive and qualitative research, this study examines educational and reflective interventions with supposedly perpetrators of domestic violence against women in reflective gender groups. The objective is to investigate how might magistrates in judicial/criminal or domestic violence courts, where this service is available, perceive these interventions as contributing to women's access to law and justice. The study first looks at domestic violence as a phenomenon, its causes, consequences and coping mechanisms, to then explore if the concept of access to justice can be extended to the context of domestic violence. It follows by analyzing the legal and social aspects of men's re-education and rehabilitation services (Maria da Penha Law) and its implication for gender-reflexive groups. And from empirical data collected through a questionnaire answered by magistrates in the State of Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil, the study hypothesize that such groups contribute to women's access to the law and justice. The findings analyzed through content analysis partially confirm the hypothesis, showing that, for magistrates, gender reflective groups can collaborate with access to justice for women in the context of domestic violence, mainly because it is an institutional response attentive to needs and substantial justice.