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- Title
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: A SURVEY OF POLICE RECORDS IN A MUNICIPALITY OF MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL.
- Authors
Borges Franco, Telma Lucas; Alves Nogueira, Denismar; Côrtes Gradim, Clícia Valim
- Abstract
Police report is an instrument of the Civil Police Station that records denunciation cases. This study identified the profile of women victims of violence, of their aggressors, and made considerations about such problem in the municipality of Guaxupé, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is a quantitative, descriptive, exploratory and cross sectional investigation. A total of 163 police reports were collected through simple and random sampling, which fitted into Maria da Penha Law, and whose victims were women. The confidence interval was set at 95%, and the margin of error at 4.4%. The Chi-square test was used to assess the relationship between the variables, with significance level of 5%. Most victims and aggressors were between 20 and 34 years old, with low educational level. The violence occurred most frequently on weekends (43%), at night. The aggressors were mostly partners (40,1%) or ex-partners (29.5%) and 33.3% of the cases showed the presence of physical injury. The results corroborate data of violence against women in the country: young and low-educated women, assaulted by their partners. Because these are the first database of violence in Guaxupé they will allow the municipality to create policies and to search for resources to implement them.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL research; RESEARCH methodology; POLICE; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL sampling; CRIME victims; WOMEN; QUANTITATIVE research; DISEASE prevalence; CROSS-sectional method; INTIMATE partner violence; DATA analysis software; ODDS ratio
- Publication
Ciencia, Cuidado e Saude, 2014, Vol 13, Issue 2, p302
- ISSN
1677-3861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v13i2.19764