Mapeamento da violência contra a mulher em Uberlândia - MG

Abstract

In the year 2021, the Maria da Penha law completed 15 years of existence, this law is one of the main tools to restrain domestic and family violence against women. Violence against women can be understood as a relation of power in which the woman is submissive to the man, this condition is often given due to cultural and socioeconomical factors, which happen in an unequal form in a given space. The objective of this paper is configured in the mapping of registered occurrences of violence against women in the city of Uberlandia, in order to identify regions with points of vulnerability. Through data obtained by the Civil Police of the state of Minas Gerais about registered occurrences of violence against women in the years 2015 to 2020, a thematic map was produced using the occurrences by neighborhood in the urban spot of Uberlandia, altogether with socioeconomical variables obtained via the demographic census performed in 2010 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. A standardization was reported in the location of the analyzed occurrences, concentrated in the South region and peripheral neighborhoods. The mapping techniques for this thematic were considered very important to identify the areas with greater risk and vulnerability, thus, being useful to guide public policies to prevent and fight violence against women.