Afasta de mim esse cale-se: a delegacia especializada de atendimento à mulher de Sousa/PB e o enfrentamento à violência de gênero.

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the weaknesses and strengths of the Specialized Police for Assistance to Women (DEAMs) in Sousa / PB, level of physical structure and personnel in combating violence against women anchored the debate recognizing such violence as a gender violence. Regarding the face of this violence highlight the participation of the feminist movement that exposed violence against women as a problem that exceeds the private sector, it should be addressed as well as public in nature. The constant struggle of this movement materialized in public policies and fighting services, protection, punishment and prevention of violence against women, among them the creation of DEAMs, object of this work, and the Maria da Penha Law. Thus, recognizing the changes that affect life in society, nothing coherent to this work than the use of critical dialectical framework, since this framework allows us the theoretical and analytical effort to overcome the level of apparent characteristic of rationality formal-abstract and, consequently, seek to articulate the categories mediation, contradiction and all the study of phenomena and social processes. The survey was developed by fundamentally qualitative nature approach, bibliographic nature and field. In this direction, draws on interviews with employees / the DEAMs of the municipality of Sousa / PB. The study results allow us to recognize that even in the DEAMs shaping up as one of the main coping political violence against women, for over 30 years, it still has weaknesses that affect their full operation. These weaknesses are expressed in the lack of material conditions, human resources and policies that should work concurrent to the service. Moreover, in economic and structural terms, both inscribed in a context of state irresponsibility towards social sector and human rights, as in the framework of an entrenched sociability by machismo culture that constantly reiterates the degradation of one gender by another.