Violência contra mulheres no contexto urbano: estudo sobre a distribuição espacial das violências no Município de São Paulo / Violence against women in an urban context: a study on the spatial distribution of violence in the City of Sao Paulo

AUTOR(ES)

Ligia Bittencourt Kiss

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Since the 1990s, violence against women has been recognized as a public health matter because of its magnitude and health consequences for individuals. Although research acknowledges the influence of neighbourhood factors on intimate partner violence (IPV), few studies investigate how the context and the womans participation in personal and social networks affect her individual probability of experiencing this type of violence. This study aimed to investigate the distribution of IPV against women and its relations with social inequalities, urban violence, and social capital in the City of Sao Paulo. Datasets used included: the WHO multi-country study on womens health and domestic violence against women; the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) census; and homicide rates from PROAIM (Program for the Improvement of Mortality Data). Data was analyzed using multilevel modeling techniques. The findings show that there is no significant variation in IPV between neighbourhoods. The study also found that socioeconomic deprivation, high rates of homicides, and low levels of social capital in a neighbourhood were not associated with a womans individual probability of experiencing IPV. Among the individual-level variables, IPV was associated with partner behaviors and having a mother who experienced IPV. These results reinforce the assumption that gender is a core concept to understanding violence, and suggest that in Sao Paulo, neighbourhood factors have limited influence in the dynamics of intimate relationships.

ASSUNTO(S)

fatores socioeconômicos iniqüidade social intimate partner violence uban violence social inequalities população urbana parceiros sexuais condições sociais social capital multilevel analysis violência contra a mulher

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