PLOTLINES OF SEXUAL ABUSE: ANALYSIS OF PROCESS OF VIOLENCE AND CARE OF ADOLESCENTS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF ALTAMIRA/PA

Authors

  • Assis da Costa Oliveira Federal University of Pará
  • Carine Costa Alves Federal University of Pará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v59i3.37153

Keywords:

Institutional intervention. Life history. Rights of children and adolescents. Sexual abuse. Sexual violence.

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the complexities involving the production process of sexual abuse and forms of institutional care, based on the analysis of the life history of two teenage girls, sexually abused in the municipality of Altamira, Pará state, where they reside. Firstly, it discusses the historical reality of sexual abuse in that municipality, paying attention to the case of the emasculated boys and to the current scenario influenced for the construction of the Hydroelectric Plant of Belo Monte, and conceptually defines sexual abuse. Subsequently, it analyzes the childhood of the two teenagers, noting the presence of risk factors that favor occurrence of sexual abuse. The violence cases, whose symbolic force remained beyond the act of revelation, did promote silence pacts between the rapists and their victims. Still, the uncovering, in both cases, was due to different strategies facing the abuse suffered, which finally led to inter-institutional intervention that, in its turn, led to the production of revictimization, as well as the provision of psychosocial care from a single scientific area – Psychology – without ensure interdisciplinary work. However, the abused adolescents emphasized the positive character of psychosocial intervention, whose main result was the fact that they managed to reframe the suffered violence and to establish new life projects.

Author Biographies

Assis da Costa Oliveira, Federal University of Pará

Professor de Direitos Humanos da Universidade Federal do Pará – UFPA, Campus de Altamira. Mestre pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito (PPGD) da UFPA. Graduado pela Faculdade de Direito da UFPA. Secretário nacional do Instituto de Pesquisa Direitos e Movimentos Sociais. Coordenador Executivo da Comissão Municipal de Enfrentamento da Violência Sexual Contra Crianças e Adolescentes de Altamira/PA. Advogado.

Carine Costa Alves, Federal University of Pará

Cientista Social pela Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Pós-graduanda do Curso de Especialização em Educação, Diversidade e Sociedade da Universidade Federal do Pará – UFPA, Campus de Altamira.

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Published

2014-10-30

How to Cite

Oliveira, A. da C., & Alves, C. C. (2014). PLOTLINES OF SEXUAL ABUSE: ANALYSIS OF PROCESS OF VIOLENCE AND CARE OF ADOLESCENTS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF ALTAMIRA/PA. Revista Da Faculdade De Direito UFPR, 59(3), 197–223. https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v59i3.37153

Issue

Vol. 59 No. 3 (2014)

Section

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