The implementation of restorative practices for authors of domestic and family violence against women: an analysis about the project “Reflection Cycle” at Petrolina-PE

Abstract

Based on the assumption that domestic and family violence against women results from the inequalities present in gender relations, and that this comes from a social construction imposed on individuals for centuries, the study, now presented, intends to make considerations about the implementation of measures restorativeapplied within the judicial activity, but that goes far beyond the punitive reprimands applied by the State.In this tuningfork, the main objective of the work is to analyze whether this multidisciplinary treatment constitutes an effective alternative to combat domestic and family violence against women, since it promotes the breaking of the patriarchal ideologies imposed notonly on the victims, but also on the authors of domestic violence.To this end, a study was carried out at the Specialized Court of Domestic and Family Violence in the city of Petrolina-PE, which since 2017 has put into practice the project called “Reflection Cycle”, which is a reflective group aimed only at males authors domestic violence as a conditio sine qua nonfor the full compliance of his sentence.