Violência doméstica e a perspectiva masculina: tecnologias disponíveis e possíveis

Abstract

Domestic violence is a problem analyzed, predominantly, from a female point of view. However, the seriousness, complexity and interdisciplinarity that involve the theme require much more effort to search for resources, from all scientific areas, to reduce the occurrence of the phenomenon that sustains a culture built and structured upon a socioeconomic model based on patriarchy, racism and inequality. As it is not a problem limited to the domestic and family scope, but a society formed and built upon a culture of violence, the present study seeks to get to know the context of domestic and family violence against women in the city of Itajubá, and to understand what is necessary to create technology to combat that violence, based not only on the female perspective, but also on the male point of view, from interviews carried out in the city of Itajubá, with 10 (ten) male perpetrators of violence and 30 (thirty) female accusers, in the year of 2022 and 2023, as well as the technologies and devices developed to combat domestic violence which can be used to increase access to the network for tackling and preventing domestic violence. The research is characterized as a qualitative and quantitative study with an exploratory objective, being divided into 4 stages: (1) bibliographical research to establish the concepts used in the work regarding violence, domestic violence and technologies; (2) data collection with the Military Police, reporting channels to combat the problem through a quantitative method and technologies available in selected studies with the CAPES database, INPI and smartphone app stores; (3) application of a questionnaire to the reflective group of male perpetrators of violence, in the context of Itajubá, based on a study developed by Beiras et al. (2021), in order to verify compliance with the listed guidelines and recommendations and (4) conduction of a semi-structured interview, with open-ended questions based on the work of bell hooks (2020) who investigated and evaluated the perception of 10 (ten) male perpetrators of violence about their reality and the context of violence and with 30 (thirty) female victims/accusers, who described their perception about the phenomenon and about the technologies they know to prevent and combat domestic violence. As for the logical reasoning adopted throughout the work, the dialectical method was used, resulting from the process of debate, discussion and argumentation of the problem, with an interdisciplinary approach, in order to determine the social context on the relations of power between men and women, where consequences related to the practice of violence against women allowed new technological possibilities, with active partners in the area, which can expand access to information and to existing public policies.