O serviço social no enfrentamento à violência doméstica contra a mulher : a atuação profissional no Juizado de Violência Doméstica e Familiar contra a Mulher em Aracaju/SE : (2022 – 2023)

Abstract

This study aims to examine how the work of social workers in the Domestic and Family Violence Court can contribute to tackling domestic violence in Aracaju/SE, in the years 2022 and 2023. Specifically, the study investigates domestic violence as part of the historical context, sustained by the inequality between men and women, in order to contextualize this type of violence in Brazil and in Aracaju/SE. Finally, it seeks to understand the professional practice of the Social Worker in assisting women in situations of violence in the judiciary, based on the technical-operational instruments of the professional practice. The central categories of the analysis are: patriarchy, class, race and gender, since this imbrication intensifies the forms of violations against women, in this study analyzed from the professional intervention of the Social Worker. This analysis was based on the historical-dialectical materialist method, from which it was possible to analyze the contradictions of capitalist society, which, founded on class division, encompasses several social inequalities, notably gender. This analysis allowed us to characterize the particularities of violence against women in Aracaju/SE, as well as to identify how social workers act in confronting this type of violence. To support this study, of a qualitative nature, bibliographic and documentary research was used. The bibliographic research was carried out through a survey of works on the issue of gender and domestic violence against women, based on the multiple refractions of the social issue that manifest themselves in capitalist, patriarchal, racist, misogynistic and sexist society. The documentary research was developed based on records of occurrences related to the Maria da Penha Law from the Maria Beatriz do Nascimento Observatory in the period from 2022 to 2023, as well as from data made available by the psychosocial center of the 1st domestic violence court of Sergipe. The results of the research indicated that the intervention of the social worker in confronting domestic violence occurred through documents produced by the Social Service, which constitute an effective resource to combat domestic violence by enabling access to women's social rights, with the intention of reducing social and personal risk. The research was fundamental to understanding the role of the social worker in relation to domestic violence against women in the city of Aracaju/Se, notably by rebuilding the autonomy and rescuing the identity of these women who were violated.