Revoking protective orders

Analysis of factors and motivation for women´s request

Abstract

https://doi.org/ 10.1590/2179-8966/2022/67306i

Abstract

The Maria da Penha Law brought to the Brazilian legal system, such as the urgent protection measures (MPUs). Gender subjectivation process influences the usage of this legal instrument. This exploratory research aims to understand sociodemographic variables and motivations that may influence their revocation by women, based on the documental analysis of 60 psychosocial reports and 60 sociodemographic questionnaires. Four categories of motivation to revoke protective orders were listed, created using content analysis and gender devices revocation: care, love, financial dependence, and risk perception. The first two categories were more prominent in the reports analyzed, which favors the analysis of women identity formation by loving and maternal devices and their influence on the revocation of MPUs. It was observed that most revocation requests occurred in the first month after the violent episode occurred. In those requests there was a preponderance of the categories love and financial dependence and of black women and unemployed women. Understanding the variables that affect the maintenance of protective orders as well as the motivation and vulnerabilities arising from the process of subjectivation of women into those devices could better qualify the performance of those who work in the legal system.

Keywords: Violence against women; Maria da Penha law; Protective orders; Motivation.