A violência contra mulher em São Luís no contexto de pandemia do Covid-19: o que os dados revelam

Abstract

The Covid-19 Pandemic has brought numerous losses to society reaching the functionality of all social segments causing fear, despair and hopelessness. The health system overloaded,

commerce temporarily closed, classes were suspended, care in governmental and non- governmental institutions was suspended and later reconfigured, among them the police stations

that is one of the main if not the main door of women's access to justice. The WHO, as a way to contain the spread of the virus, established sanitary measures and isolation and social distancing had a great impact on people's lives. Over the days, television newspapers and social media about violence against women became frequent and that some of them were homicides. The suspension of care at police stations contributes to the increase in this type of violence, since the vast majority it was configured as domestic and family violence. This research aimed to identify the quantity of violence against women in the period of the Covid-19 pandemic and correlate these data with the same period of 2019 in the city of São Luís. A descriptive study was conducted with a quantitative and qualitative basic approach built from documentary data collected at the Secretariat of Public Security/MA and the Maria da Penha Patrol Community Security Command/MA both located in São Luís and bibliographic survey by electronic means such as Scielo, Google scholar, international and government websites, newspaper sites and documentaries. The results found were the increase in violence in the context of the pandemic, the prevalence of age group, shifts, schedules, the main places and aggressors who committed the violence, the decrease in receiving protective measures, the increase in rounds and visits and care for women with protective measures. These data can support other research and/or provide institutions working to combat this type of crime with information about violence against women in the city of São Luís.