Entre o doméstico, o familiar e o gênero: os “Jogos de Armar” no fazer policial como mecanismos para enquadrar narrativas femininas em crimes de violência previstos na Lei Maria da Penha

Abstract

This article aims to describe the ways police officers at the Women’s Defense Station (DDM) in Campinas, Brazil, weave threads of meaning about emotions, experiences and practices as they frame feminine narratives on domestic violence in crimes under Law Maria da Penha (Law no 11340, August 07 2006). Along with this weaving movement, police officers embed specific criminal offences, female experiences of violence, moralities and affections in an Assembling Game, where the pieces are juxtaposed in unpredictable and idiosyncratic ways. I intended to present the ambivalences constituting the notion of domesticviolence in police perceptions and thus discuss its gains to debate the effects of improvementof public policies to cope with domestic and family violence.