Feminicídios na cidade de Porto Alegre: Quantos são? Quem são?

Abstract

ABSTRACT:Objective: To quantify and typify the feminicides occurred in the city of Porto Alegre from 2006 to 2010. Methods: Cross-sectional study that examines the sociodemographic characteristics of victims and perpetrators and the circumstances of feminicides obtained in police investigations of women murdered in the city of Porto Alegre. Statistical analyses were performed using the SPSS software, version 20.0, with the χ 2 test; p <0.05 was considered as significant. Results: Of the 89 surveys analyzed, we categorized 64 deaths (72%) as feminicides. Most victims were young, poorly educated and exercised socially undervalued occupations. They had a history of violence perpetrated by an intimate partner and one quarter of them had registered a police report. Conclusion: These data indicate the magnitude of this crime and the need to identify risk situations and prevent lethal outcomes.

Violência urbana e fatores de risco relacionados ao feminicídio em contexto amazônico brasileiro

“…Median age of femicide victims was relatively low and much lower than victims of other violent deaths, corroborating a study in Porto Alegre 27 and differing from findings in other countries 23,26 . In Italy, for example, more than half of the victims were over 45 years of age 23 .…”

“…Saúde Pública 2019; 35(8):e00230418 occurred in public. This result is largely expected, since studies on femicide 27,41 and on deadly assaults perpetrated by intimate partners show that the domicile is the most frequent site of fatal assault 42 .…”

“…Meanwhile, the point estimate of femicides in Manaus is considerably lower than in other Brazilian studies, although the upper limit of the estimate reaches a proportion of nearly 46%. Importantly, previous studies in Brazil used different criteria to define femicide, for example, defining all homicides of women as femicides, and considering as femicide executions associated with the drug traffic or situations that involved disproportional use of lethal means by the assailant 7,8,27 . Not every homicide is a femicide; especially in areas with high levels of interpersonal violence, cases such as deadly robbery (robbery leading to death) or those involving ordinary delinquency may produce wide variation in the estimates of femicide 12 .…”

“…In our study, 19.2% of femicides involved a report of sexual violence, similar to a study in North Carolina (United States), on teenage victims of femicide, 8.9% of whom had been raped before the fatal assault 46 . Sexual violence prior to femicide can also be viewed as an indication that these deaths were related to stigmatized occupations such as sex work 23,27,47,48 or even illicit drug use, in which sexual favors are occasionally exchanged as a form of payment 49,50 . Therefore, as in other studies, sexual violence appears as an important component of femicide 51 .…”

Sociodemographic, criminal and forensic characteristics of a sample of female children and adolescents murdered in Brazil. 2010-2016

“…These findings are in agreement with what other studies have reported regarding the murder of women in retaliation against their partners or relatives, and the violent death of women and children in areas affected by drug trafficking. (19,21,32) The second category with the highest number of homicides was femicide, since 11 (15.7%) were perpetrated by the victim's intimate partner, besides in 8 cases (72.7%) the victims' age ranged between 13 and 15 years old at the time of their deaths, which reveals and early occurrence of this type of crime. In this sense, in 2013 the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Colombia expressed its concerns regarding the increase in the number of femicides of minors.…”