Trabalho «O Dilema de Inês» - textos temáticos

 

Fearless, (2006)  pintura de Aisoorya Vijayakumar

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Retiro um excerto do estudo de Enrique Gracia e Juan Herrero - Acceptability of domestic violence against women in the European Union: a multilevel analysis (1), publicado na página do National Center for Biotechnology Information  e suscetível de interesse para alguns dos trabalhos.

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«The extent of domestic violence against women (DVAW) worldwide, which in western countries affects about 25% of women at some point in their lives,^1,2,3,4,5 its impact on their physical and mental health, both in the short and long term, and the wider outcomes of DVAW for families, communities, and society, makes it a public health priority.^6,7,8,9,10

A public health approach to DVAW, as the one proposed by the World Health Organisation,¹⁰ considered that among the larger societal factors that influence rates of violence are those that create an acceptable climate for violence, and those that reduce inhibitions against violence. Although the influence of contextual factors in DVAW has been theoretically acknowledged, research examining these effects has been scarce. A small number of multilevel studies showed that social and community level factors such as neighbourhood poverty and disadvantage, are related to higher rates of DVAW.^{11,12,13,14,15,16} However, to our knowledge, no multilevel study has analysed the individual and social factors associated with public attitudes toward DVAW. Clearly, a better understanding of the factors influencing public attitudes toward DVAW would add relevant knowledge to the literature on the social conditions that foster or discourage DVAW, and would be useful to orientate public education and prevention efforts.

Domestic violence is always rooted in a social and cultural context, and public attitudes about what is or is not acceptable in intimate relationships reflect these social and cultural norms.^{17,18,19,20,21,22,23} As it has been emphasised by a number of scholars, without a fundamental change in the social attitudes that foster, condone, and perpetuate DVAW we will not be able to respond effectively to this problem, by substantially reducing its alarming rates.^{17,18,19,24,25}

Public attitudes about DVAW play an important part in shaping the social environment in which the victims are embedded, which in turn may contribute either to perpetuate or to reduce the levels of DVAW in our societies.^6,17,18,19 Family, neighbours, friends, coworkers, and even acquaintances, are an important part of this social environment that may act as potential guardians whose intervention to help victims of domestic violence may depend on public perceptions of the unacceptability of all or only certain types of incidents.²⁶ If DVAW is considered as such only when it involves extreme, severe, or repeated violence, it is more likely that some violence towards women in intimate relationships may be acceptable under some conditions.^27,28 A social environment that accepts or even supports domestic violence in some circumstances contributes to create a climate of tolerance that makes it easier for perpetrators to persist in their violent behaviour, and makes it more difficult for women to disclose domestic violence.^6,17,25,29

If primary prevention is a cornerstone of a public health approach, reducing the acceptability of all forms of DVAW becomes one of its fundamental goals. In this effort, public education and media campaigns challenging social attitudes towards DVAW are basic tools to approach social levels of acceptability to zero.^6»

 

(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2588066/. Consultado em 2 de março de 2022.