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SILVA, JULIANA FERREIRA DA  y  ALBUQUERQUE, LETÍCIA DIAS. THE VIOLENT EMOTION AND THE JUSTIFICATION OF FEMICIDE IN BRAZIL (1930–1939). Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.74, e029.  Epub 09-Sep-2024. ISSN 1809-5267.  https://doi.org/10.36482/1809-5267.arbp-2022v74.19539.

This paper discusses historical background of discourses of justification of feminicide in Brazil and analyzes arguments that justify violence against women both in the media coverage of criminal cases of feminicide, as well as in the repertoire of criminological thinking and Brazilian judicial practices. The research used documentary survey and case study. Its sources were media coverage of Rio de Janeiro periodicals from 1930 about uxoricide crimes and fragments of criminal process. The results indicate the presence of the discourse justifying intentional lethal violence against women through judging/blaming the victim for the violence suffered, supported by the reference to the supposed immoral/adulterous sexual conduct of women. The case study demonstrates the transformation of this discursive operator in the judgment of the victim and the judgment of mental illness by articulating the psychiatric medical discourse of mental illness with criminal justice. The article concludes that silencing intentional lethal violence against women is sustained by a process of irresponsibility from which male violence against women is normalized. Such a process operates not only in the name of a supposed defense of the honor, but also by resorting to the impairment of the mental faculties under the concept of deprivation of the senses and intelligence.

Palabras llave : Gender; Femicide; Domestic violence; Brazilian criminology; Justice.

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