Revista de Criminologias e Politicas Criminais (Oct 2016)

Intervention Policies on Domestic Violence Against Women

  • Antonio Henrique Graciano Suxberger,
  • Natália Neves Alves Ferreira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26668/IndexLawJournals/2526-0065/2016.v2i1.298
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 228 – 249

Abstract

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The article highlights multidisciplinary policies on gender based violence, acoording to the Maria da Penha Statute. It considers the context after the legal prohibition of probation during the criminal prosecution. From a literature review and document analysis, specially on researches conducted on the subject, the article sustains the importance of multidisciplinary actions combined or dissociated to formal criminal responses and focus the need of interventions considering the aggressors as well the victims, in order to assure a preventive efficiency regarding future cases of domestic violence against women.

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