O que restou de nós: a construção social do feminicídio na perspectiva do sistema judicial.

Abstract

Femicide constitutes a serious violation of human rights and the last act of violence against women. Throughout history, pressure from the Feminist Movement and, mainly, international condemnations for the violation of women's rights and negligence have resulted, at the international level, in that various conventions, conferences and platforms have reinforced the duty of States to assume responsibility for developing mechanisms capable of confronting this reality. One of these mechanisms was the creation of a change in the penal code with the qualifier of femicide, an experience developed in several countries and in Brazil since 2015. In this study, we analyze how the Court of Justice of Paraíba, in the Comarca of Campina Grande, dealt with cases of femicide between 2016 and 2018. Taking the 1st Jury Court as a starting point, we seek to analyze the content of the processes processed and judged with the methodological support of content analysis. Therefore, the motto of the research was to identify the mechanisms used by the judiciary to judge these crimes, to understand how the speeches of security agents are constructed when referring to victims and aggressors and, nevertheless, to analyze whether the class, race and gender are present during the trial of cases. Finally, it was possible to perceive the various difficulties that the judicial system faces with this theme in separating, naming and recognizing the characteristics of the murder of a woman, especially outside the domestic environment. Class and race conditions are used as social markers that naturalize and justify the development of violent dynamics in peripheries and areas of poverty concentration.