Grupos reflexivos para homens autores de violência como medida protetiva no enfrentamento à violência contra a mulher

Abstract

The present work aims to problematize the reflexive groups for perpetrators of violence against women as a strategy to confront machismo. This is a qualitative research exploratory character reasoned at the method dialectial. The gathering of data it was made from of the research with survey bibliographic. It was identified that reflexive groups for men who commit domestic violence against women have existed in Brazil since the 1990s, but in the scope of Law, these experiences are based on the innovation proposed in the Maria da Penha Law. It was observed that there is a conflict in Brazilian society between the position that the culture of incarceration and the position that denying the need for criminal responses to violence against women identifies the failure of prison as a preventive and educating intervention in the face of this type of violence. In addition, there is an understanding that there is a dispute over resources between the services aimed at holding men responsible for violence against women and the resources that should be allocated to the care of women who suffer violence.