As dobras do feminicídio: um estudo das narrativas dos homens criminosos na cidade de Campina Grande (2015-2020).

Abstract

Violence against women, especially with regard to feminicide, is a complex and multicausal phenomenon. In addition to a public problem, materialized through Law 13.104/2015, feminicide consists of a socio-anthropological phenomenon, which is intersected by several languages of violence and represents a practice of hate whose recipients are women. In these plots, power and domination are commonly articulated in order to promote the elimination of the other, to make him “pay” with his life based on the appeal to cruelty as a tool that is not only rational, but emotional. In view of this, the problem posed in this study is to know how feminicide committed by men is related to the problematic construction of models of violent masculinity in our society? Thus, the general objective of this research is to analyze the phenomenon of feminicide from the perspective of its perpetrators, seeking to understand the narratives of feminicide men about their motivations, circumstances and self-assessments of their behavior in their interface with models of masculinity and femininity for them. shared. As for the methodology, a qualitative, quantitative and explanatory descriptive research was chosen, based on data collection through documentary field research, with the collection and analysis of police investigations regarding crimes classified as feminicide by the Delegacia de Crimes Contra a Pessoa de Campina Grande/PB, in the period 2015-2020. Later, the treatment of the narratives and the categorization of the cases inspired by the content analysis model were carried out, based on a sample of male criminals, authors of the crime of feminicide in the city and convicted by the justice. With regard to the main results, we invested in a typologization of cases based on findings in the field and their central characteristics: the “voices that echo”, for cases of feminicide followed by suicide of the perpetrators, whose voices begin to echo through their bodies. intimate family members and the “voices that speak”, for cases judged and whose perpetrators were convicted. Based on the analyses, one of the limitations found was the absence, in police investigations, of information that would allow a broad intersectional understanding of the actors involved in feminicide plots, in addition to being organizational pieces, surrounded by the logic of legal representations. A common aspect of the cases was the emptying of the usual sources of male power, in addition to cruelty as characteristics, wrapped by rationality and/or emotions. Finally, the final considerations are that the men who commit feminicide are, above all, ordinary men. For this reason, dealing with masculinities requires the positioning of men in gender relations, which are always situated in a given context. Thus, it is hoped that this investigation can serve as a support to advance in the knowledge and debate on the folds of feminicide.