The Act of Listening to “Battered” Women: An Ethnographic Comparison of Police and Emergency Responses in São Paulo, Brazil

In the context of increasing prosecution by victims of domestic violence, this article compares professionals’ responses to specific cases in two different institutional settings in São Paulo, women’s police stations and hospital emergency services. The article focuses on the first encounter of vict...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rocío Alonso Lorenzo, Beatriz Accioly Lins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Latin American Studies Association 2018-03-01
Series:Latin American Research Review
Online Access:https://larrlasa.org/articles/348