Abstract

BIGLIARDI, Adriana Maria; ANTUNES, Maria Cristina  and  WANDERBROOCKE, Ana Claudia N. S. Public policies impact on violence against women coping: implications to social community psychology. Bol. - Acad. Paul. Psicol. [online]. 2016, vol.36, n.91, pp. 262-285. ISSN 1415-711X.

Violence against women is a violation of women's rights and is a major social problem of multiple determinants and it has its roots in historical and socio-cultural construction of hierarchical relations of power and asymmetry between genders. Approximately one third of all women in the world have been victims of physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner. While violence against women is a serious problem, until a few decades was treated as a problem of privacy and only recently began to be understood as a problem that requires effective coping policies. This study presents a literature review of research and documents which main objective was to carry out critical analysis of the impacts of public policies on confronting violence against women in reducing the levels of violence. It was concluded from this study that preventing and coping violence against women depends on the awareness of individuals, families, communities and society in general, so that other values can be built, where violence is constructed and legitimated. Although there are public policies to deal with this issue, it appears that the incorporation of a gender approach is needed in the construction of educational policies, health, welfare and public safety so that we can promote the building of human relationships that do not violate the rights of women

Keywords : violence; women; intimate partners; public policy.

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