Violência contra a mulher: um estudo quantitativo a partir dos indicadores de lesão corporal leve decorrente de violência doméstica no Poder Judiciário Sul-Mato-Grossense

Abstract

The present article aims to highlight, through the indicators of violence against women within the Brazilian Judiciary, the reality that a significant portion of women, especially those from the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, face daily within their homes, which serve as a stage for the perpetration of physical violence due to their gender. This is a bibliographical, documentary, and quantitative research conducted through a deductive approach, which starts from the premise that indicators of violence against women have been on the rise in Brazil in recent years. Consequently, the Judiciary of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul has shown a high incidence of the offense of bodily harm resulting from domestic violence against women, making it the crime with the highest number of new cases in the Judiciary of Mato Grosso do Sul. Thus, this can be attributed to the fact that this high incidence is intimately related to the nature of the offense, which is characterized by unconditional public prosecution, emphasizing the need for reflections regarding the nature of public prosecution in comparison to other types of offenses committed in the context of domestic and family violence against women. In these cases, the initiation of criminal proceedings often depends on private prosecution or the victim's formal complaint for offenses such as threats, slander, defamation, libel, harassment, dissemination of intimate images, assault, among others. Only through such considerations can we gain a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon of violence against women.