A Critical Analysis of the Occurrence of Preventive Detention in Maria da Penha Law

• Main Authors: Débora de Lima Ferreira, Marilia Montenegro Pessoa De Mello
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI) 2015-12-01
• Series: Revista de Criminologias e Politicas Criminais
• Subjects: Violência doméstica e familiar contra a mulher, Lei maria da penha, Prisão preventiva, Formas de resolução de conflitos domésticos
• Online Access: http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistacpc/article/view/39

Feminist movements, aimed to "empowerment", reached greater criminal stiffening, which resulted in the creation of the Maria da Penha Law. The recrudescence of fixed abstract penalties legitimizes the goal of the legal system, but this rule is inappropriate for domestic and family problems, manifesting criminal symbolism. This study aims to demonstrate, under the aegis of Critical Criminology, the inadequacy of the amount of preventive detention applied that has been determined under the cloak of effective solutions for domestic conflicts. To this end, it investigates the real functions of this legislation on fighting domestic genre crime by analyzing sentenced criminal cases of the 2014 on I Court of Domestic and Family Violence of Recife.