Older women victims of violence: Their protagonism in reporting it to the Police

Authors

  • Miriam Fernanda Sanches Alarcon Universidade do Oeste Paulista / Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu da Universidade Estadual Paulista «Júlio de Mesquita», Botucatu, São Paulo, Brasil / ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8656-009X Author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7417-4439 (unauthenticated)
  • Viviane Boacnin Yoneda Sponchiado Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu da Universidade Estadual Paulista «Júlio de Mesquita», Botucatu, São Paulo, Brasil / ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2572-9899 Author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5808-613X (unauthenticated)
  • Mara Quaglio Chirelli Delegacia de Defesa da Mulher na Central de Polícia Judiciária da Polícia Civil do Estado de São Paulo, Marilia-SP, Brasil / ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4527-6345 Author
  • Maria José Sanches Marin Faculdade de Medicina de Marília, Marília, São Paulo, Brasil / ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7417-4439 Author
  • Joyce Fernanda Soares Albino Ghezzi Faculdade de Medicina de Marília, Marília, São Paulo, Brasil / ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6210-6941 Author
  • Joyce Fernanda Soares Albino Ghezzi Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu da Universidade Estadual Paulista «Júlio de Mesquita», Botucatu, São Paulo, Brasil / ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5808-613X Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22355/exaequo.2020.41.04

Keywords:

empowerment, aging, violence against women, intrafamily violence

Abstract

Older women victims of violence: Their protagonism in reporting it to the Police

In order to understand the experience of older women victims of intrafamily violence when reporting it to the Police and the feelings permeating it, the study was conducted from interviews with older women who reported it at a Police station of a city in the state of São Paulo. Data processing was performed through thematic analysis. It was observed that reporting to the Police represents regaining protagonism, being characterized by the duality between empowerment and the feelings in relation to the aggressor. It is perceived that, for this population, reporting maltreatment to the Police is characterized by contradictions between stopping violence and the relation with the aggressor, being essential to foster protagonism from strategies for empowerment in its different dimensions.

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Published

2023-01-01

Issue

No. 41 (2020): Revista ex æquo número 41

Section

Dossier "Epistemologias, metodologias e produção de conhecimento crítico de matriz qualitativa em Estudos sobre as Mulheres, de Género e Feministas"

How to Cite

Older women victims of violence: Their protagonism in reporting it to the Police. (2023). Ex æquo, 41(41). https://doi.org/10.22355/exaequo.2020.41.04