Interdisciplinarity and the essential concepts for identifying domestic and family violence in the Maria da Penha Law

Abstract

Foundational concepts such as domestic and familial violence, require interdisciplinary instruments for the understanding and application of their meanings beyond those exclusively derived from the legal field. Considering this, through a qualitative approach and reflexive-exploratory analysis, the present article aims to identify the primary constitutive elements of Article 5 of the Maria da Penha Law, to reveal how interdisciplinarity is essential for the understanding of legal norms and the goods that the reference law aims to protect. To achieve this, situations were presented in which the concepts, treated interdisciplinary, must be applied, and in the end, brief considerations were presented on the importance of interdisciplinarity for the solution of problems that involve gender violence in the domestic and familial sphere.