Violence against Amazon women

Abstract

The press has currently disseminated the issue, mainly in crime pages, although it is also presented as a health, human rights and public policy issue.Violence against women presented in the general media highlights social and gender inequity, denounces crime, reveals "characters" from society and highlights the magnitude of the problem when it translates security incidents and social controversies that happen in communities. In this context, genderviolence is a problem that should be considered an epidemic, public health and public safety issue due its magnitude, thus, it is a problem of public interest.Violence is an issue of public interest because it has increased in frequency and in general affects METHODOLOGYThis is an exploratory and qualitative study.A total of 181 issues of a regional newspaper, p u b l i s h e d f r o m J a n u a r y t o J u n e 2 0 0 7 w e r e consulted and 164 reports were selected from s e c t i o n s c o n c e r n i n g c u r r e n t n e w s a n d c r i m e addressing violence against Amazon women. Of these, 46 were included in the corpus of analysis because they met the following inclusion criteria: narrated violence against Amazon women, that is, women living in the following Brazilian states: Acre, Rondônia, Amapá, Roraima, Amazonas and Pará, regardless of place of birth and age. One hundred and eighteen items were excluded because they addressed violence that happened in regions other t h a n t h e B r a z i l i a n A m a z o n r e g i o n a n d o t h e r countries, violence related to health, robbery and accident due to external causes. of the production/reception (inferred variables) of these messages" (7) .Content analysis followed the pre-analysis of