M.A. (Social Work) / Marital violence is not a new phenomenon, but one which has, until recently, been conveniently avoided by researchers on account of its sensitive and tabu qualities. Very little research has been done in South Africa on marital violence. The purpose of this exploratory study is to determine priorities for further research and to develop hypotheses which would generate future research. Contemporary literature dated back to 1970 was explored. From the literature review the following conclusions were drawn : Ignorance and misconceptions exist concerning the nature, range, contributing factors and effects of marital violence. Violence in the marital relationship can occur with as few as 15,6% to as many as 60% of all married couples. Marital violence is mostly directed at the wife, it occurs usually repeatedly and increases in severity over time, it can take on different forms and marital violence sometimes results in serious injuries. A wide variety of factors contribute to marital violence and no one factor can be isolated as the primary cause. The study also identified insufficient community resources and support programmes directed at couples who experience marital violence, as a serious constraint in the helping process. Furthermore it appears that involvement of the family and the social environment is a prerequisite for effective intervention programmes and the prevention of marital violence. A multi-professional team approach which emphasises helping people rather than prosecuting them, appears to be desirable. Lastly, intervention related to and prevention of marital violence should be incorporated in a comprehensive social welfare policy.

Typologies of intimate violence are part of an emerging paradigm towards a multifaceted, multi-theoretical approach to understanding the causes and effects of intimate violence. For this new paradigm to be implemented into research and practice, there are several gaps in the knowledge base that must be addressed. In particular, there is a need: (a) to develop a more comprehensive typology of intimate violence that integrates characteristics of perpetrators with interactional characteristics of violence; (b) to evaluate the differential effects of this comprehensive typology for women and men; and (c) to develop of a clinical assessment approach that incorporates the most current knowledge on typologies of violence with the most current knowledge on assessment practices. Two studies were conducted to address these gaps. The first study is an empirical analysis testing Johnson's (1995; 2002) coercive control construct as an indicator of type and effects of intimate violence for women and men using secondary data analysis methods. The second manuscript is the development of a tiered intimate violence assessment approach that incorporates current knowledge on conjoint assessment with current knowledge on typologies of intimate violence. A conceptual clinical assessment approach is proposed that can be tested for its usefulness in assisting clinicians with assessing for intimate violence during conjoint sessions, and for determining whether conjoint treatment is indicated. / Graduation date: 2005

The ways in which men negotiate contradictory discourses to accommodate their domestic violence into their sense of self forms the focus of this thesis. The sixty-six men interviewed for this thesis had attended a twelve-week group in an attempt to stop their violence. Forty-two of their women partners also agreed to be interviewed. Overall two hundred and fifty-nine interviews were conducted with these men and their women partners. The men were found to draw on various competing discourses in their constructions of themselves. One of the sources was the print media. A content analysis of newspaper articles over a period of twenty years revealed that popular representations of domestic violence have increased over time and have privileged physical forms of violence. Representations of the perpetrator of domestic violence featured hegemonic forms of masculinity, emphasising the physicality of men's bodies. Although the men interviewed here had agreed to attend a professional course for violent perpetrators, they were selective in which professional discourses they used to explain their own violence. The thesis outlines legal, medical and human services discourses, focusing on selected interventions, and identifies weaknesses such as the use of prescriptive definitions of domestic violence and the reliance on women to report on their own and their partner's feelings and behaviours. Finally, women's and men's own representations of their experiences revealed that the domestic relationship is a complex entity - where contradictory scripts for masculinity and femininity are acted out. Feminist and masculinity theories of power and subjectivity are coupled with Foucauldian thought to provide a theoretical framework capable of untangling the contradictory issues expressed in these discursive spaces. A key contradiction occurs between an aspect of the male gender role discourse in which men are expected to 'look out for number one', which requires enacting high levels of self-control and control-over others. This is juxtaposed with the desire for men to exercise non-violent forms of control and an ethic of care for others as well as themselves. Even though women are often identified as the caregivers in the family, a significant finding of this thesis was that violent men work relentlessly to construct themselves as the ethical partner. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of Social Sciences, 2004.

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Orientador: Silvio Donizetti de Oliveira Gallo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T23:07:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Faria_SheilaVilelaRibeiro_M.pdf: 2205197 bytes, checksum: 493a1c70a89f86124249765c05a2f21c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem o objetivo de compreender e descrever como se processa o registro da violência contra a mulher na relação conjugal, em uma das várias Delegacias de Mulheres existentes hoje, no Brasil, e para tanto, foram coletados dados na Delegacia Adjunta de Repressão a Crimes Contra a Mulher (DARRCM), da cidade de Uberlândia/Minas Gerais.Vista como ¿problema social¿, a violência contra a mulher na relação conjugal é, em geral, evidenciada por meio de elementos muito realistas como a pobreza, a ausência de educação escolar, o desequilíbrio emocional, o mal funcionamento dos serviços de assistência públicos etc. Arrolada pelos formuladores de políticas públicas, esta lista esclarece os males a serem combatidos com programas encarregados de solucionar o ¿problema¿. A criação das Delegacias da Mulher no Brasil encontra sua origem nestes programas de políticas públicas, razão pela qual elas passaram a ser vistas como uma resposta global no enfrentamento ao problema da violência doméstica. Desde então, com suas fichas de registro de queixas, as Delegacias da Mulher, desde 1985, passaram a contribuir para definir a visão do que seja a violência contra a mulher. No entanto, faltam estudos sobre o processo de elaboração dessas fichas na delegacia e mesmo do próprio trabalho que é realizado nelas, onde a maioria dos funcionários é constituída de policiais do sexo masculino. O estudo analisa o comportamento dos agentes durante o registro, o que permitirá a conferência das práticas de registro e, notadamente, as práticas de comunicação dentro da delegacia da mulher, a constância dos comportamentos entre os funcionários, durante o registro e encaminhamento das ocorrências registradas, assim como as variações existentes neste comportamento relacionadas à visão desses policiais, por ocasião do trabalho no atendimento das mulheres, vítimas de violência / Abstract: This research aims to understand and to describe how processes the register of the violence against the woman in the conjugal relation, at one of the various Women Police Stations existing actually in Brazil. In this purpose, we had collected data in the Associate Police Station of Repression to the Crimes Against Woman of Uberlândia/Minas Gerais (Delegacia Adjunta de Repressão a Crimes Contra a Mulher ¿ DARRCM, Uberlândia/Minas Gerais).While a ¿social problem¿, the violence against the woman in the conjugal relation is generally evidenced by very realistic elements as the poverty, the absence of scholar education, the emotional disequilibrium, the bad functioning of the public assistance services etc. Listed for the formulators of public politics, this list clarifies the evils to be fought with programs responsible for solving the ¿problem¿. The creation of the Woman Police Stations in Brazil finds its origin in these public politics programs, reason by which they had passed to be seen as a global response in the confrontation to the problem of the domestic violence. Since then, with its complaints reports, the Woman Police Stations ¿ since 1985 ¿ had started to contribute to define the vision of what is the violence against the woman. However, it¿s necessary more studies on the elaboration process of those reports at the Police Station and it¿s necessary more studies of the proper work realized in them, where the majority of the employees is constituted of male policemen. The study analyzes the agent¿s behavior during the register. This will allow the conference of the register practices and, specially, the practice of communication inside the Woman Police Station, the constancy of the behaviors between the employees during the register and the guiding of the registered occurrences. In another side, the conference of the existing variations in this behavior related to the vision of these policemen, in the occasion of the work in the attendance of the women who are violence victims / Mestrado / Filosofia e História da Educação / Mestre em Educação

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T13:16:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1597512 bytes, checksum: 53a8315d45c65a59c2cad8e34c451e42 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Violence against women in the context of intimate relationships is that practiced by the spouse, fiance, boyfriend or partner. It is the most recurrent type of violence against women. The aim of this study was to investigate factors related to permanence and the disruption of intimate violence from the perspective of women in situations of violence. The research was to first build a theoretical model to explain the start, stay and disruption of the violent relationship, and then was carried out empirical research addressing the theoretical model. The theoretical model considers that violence in intimate relationship can be analyzed from three dimensions: the cognitive dimension, in which the main factor explaining the maintenance of violent intimate relationship would be the cognitive dysfunction, consisting of features such as dysfunctional beliefs / irrational, low self-esteem, low perceived self-efficacy, external locus of control, the relational dimension, mainly formed by the behavioral feature of the relationship, ie, the assessment made by the wife of the "gains" in keeping the relationship and their losses if she would break the relationship - economic dependence, concern for the livelihood or welfare of children, rejection of the status of women separate, fear of being murdered, and the cultural dimension, formed by broad social beliefs about violence, sex roles , reflected in perceived social support by women, either by groups closer as family and friends, or social institutions, police, justice, among others. The empirical research consisted of a multiple case study with 12 women who lived or still live in a violent intimate relationship. The instrument of data collection was an in-depth interviews conducted in two parts. At first the woman had a history of violent relationships and were second in depth specific issues related to the model. Data analysis showed that indicators of cognitive dysfunction were present mainly during the stay of women in violent relationship, the main dysfunctional belief checked was the belief of women, often for years, in changing the behavior of the violent partner. The behavioral feature was evident on a continuation and disruption. The functional aspect was the most frequent maintenance by the husband of the household expenses and / or children. Two types of cracking the behavioral feature were more indicated as causes of the disruption - the woman started to have conditions to maintain and keep their children without the need of the partner, and the woman suffered an assassination attempt. Social support from family and friends to the relationship was motivating to stay and in some cases the non-perception of social support also favored the retention. Concerning the social support for the disruption, there was emphasis on the social support of children, cited as decisive as significant part of women. One reference was also a lack of social support institutions - the police and justice - as motivators of stay. In one case this lack of support led to a reworking cognitive stronger dysfunctional beliefs that women should remain in violent relationships. The mechanisms of relational and cultural dimensions were more influential in breaking, while the cognitive characteristics appear to be associated with more permanence / A violência contra a mulher no contexto das relações íntimas é aquela praticada pelo cônjuge, noivo, namorado ou companheiro. É o tipo mais recorrente de violência contra a mulher. O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar os fatores relacionados à permanência e ao rompimento do relacionamento íntimo violento, na perspectiva da mulher em situação de violência. A pesquisa consistiu em primeiramente construir um modelo teórico explicativo do início, permanência e rompimento do relacionamento violento; em seguida foi realizada uma pesquisa empírica abordando o modelo teórico. O modelo teórico proposto considera que a violência na relação íntima pode ser analisada a partir de três dimensões: a dimensão cognitiva, na qual o principal fator explicativo da manutenção da relação íntima violenta seria a disfuncionalidade cognitiva, constituída por características como crenças disfuncionais/irracionais, baixa auto-estima, baixa auto-eficácia percebida, lócus de controle externo; a dimensão relacional, constituída principalmente pela funcionalidade comportamental da relação, isto é, a avaliação feita pela mulher dos ganhos em manter-se na relação e as respectivas perdas que ela teria caso rompesse a relação dependência econômica, preocupação com o sustento ou bem-estar dos filhos, rejeição ao status de mulher separada, medo de ser assassinada; e a dimensão cultural, formada pelas crenças sociais amplas acerca da violência, dos papéis sexuais, refletidas no apoio social percebido pela mulher, seja pelos grupos mais próximos como familiares e amigos, seja pelas instituições sociais, polícia, justiça, entre outros. A pesquisa empírica consistiu num estudo de casos múltiplos com 12 mulheres que viveram ou ainda vivem uma relação íntima violenta. O instrumento de coleta de dados foi uma entrevista em profundidade realizada em duas partes. Na primeira a mulher contava a história do relacionamento violento e na segunda eram aprofundados pontos específicos, relacionados ao modelo. A análise dos dados mostrou que indicativos de disfuncionalidade cognitiva estavam presentes principalmente na fase da permanência da mulher na relação violenta, a principal crença disfuncional verificada foi a crença da mulher, muitas vezes por anos, na mudança do comportamento violento do parceiro. A funcionalidade comportamental foi evidenciada na permanência e no rompimento. O aspecto funcional mais frequente foi a manutenção pelo marido das despesas da casa e/ou dos filhos. Dois tipos de quebra da funcionalidade comportamental foram mais indicados como desencadeadores do rompimento a mulher passou a ter condições de se manter e manter os filhos sem necessitar do parceiro, e a mulher sofreu tentativa de assassinato. O apoio social de familiares e amigos ao relacionamento foi motivador para a permanência e em alguns casos a não percepção de apoio social também favoreceu a permanência. Concernente ao apoio social para o rompimento, houve destaque para o apoio social dos filhos, citado como decisivo por parte significativa das mulheres. Foi referida ainda a ausência de apoio social das instituições polícia e justiça como motivadores da permanência. Em um dos casos esta ausência de apoio provocou uma reelaboração cognitiva, fortalecendo crenças disfuncionais de que a mulher deveria manter-se no relacionamento violento. Os mecanismos das dimensões relacional e cultural mostraram-se mais influentes no rompimento, enquanto as características cognitivas parecem estar mais associadas à permanência.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:38:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTACAO_OLIVEIRA,_Danielle_Cristina[1].pdf: 1138419 bytes, checksum: ad0baf4923ec42d9b6817c93ef3c3b19 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-07-22 / O Movimento Feminista contribuiu para o debate público sobre gênero e violência conjugal. A violência conjugal foi discutida a partir da concepção dualista: homem - agressor versus mulher- vítima e entendida como violência contra mulher. A emergência de produções acadêmicas que analisavam a violência conjugal por enfoques teóricos que contestavam essa visão dualista possibilitou o entendimento do tema por meio dos múltiplos papéis de homens e mulheres numa relação afetiva violenta. O referencial relacional não ignora as produções culturais em torno do gênero e da etnia, que produzem diferenças de poder entre o casal, entretanto defende que a compreensão das violências entre cônjuges não pode ser reduzida a idéia de subalternidade feminina. Considerando esses contextos, o estudo investigou concepções de gênero e violência conjugal dos nove psicólogos que trabalhavam em programas públicos que atendem envolvidos em violência conjugal na Grande Vitória, por meio de entrevista semi estruturada que abordou os seguintes temas: atendimento psicológico, gênero, conjugalidade e violência conjugal. As práticas psicológicas se caracterizaram por uma diversidade de atendimentos: atendimentos clínicos, a terapia de casal, as orientações psicológicas, os trabalhos de grupos e por trabalhos em parceria com outras especialidades principalmente o direito e o serviço social. Destacam-se os seguintes significados: gênero foi considerado uma relação de poder entre homens e mulheres, construída socialmente, ainda fortemente influenciada pelos papéis tradicionais homem - provedor e mulher-cuidadora. Em geral, a violência conjugal é entendida como um processo de opressão mediado por relação de poder desigual entre homens e mulheres, expresso por agressões físicas e psicológicas. Os psicólogos assumem portanto, uma postura pró-feminista, existindo basicamente dois estilos de ação. Uma parte desenvolve ações referenciadas aos princípios do movimento feminista, assumindo exclusivamente um papel de defesa da mulher violentada, esses entrevistados atendem predominantemente mulheres e demonstram em seus discursos influências marcantes de uma concepção dualista. A outra parcela de psicólogos também considera as assimetrias entre os gêneros, porém constrói as práticas psicológicas pela mediação de conflitos entre homens e mulheres, considerando claramente os custos das cobranças de gênero e as conseqüências da violência conjugal para homens e mulheres aproximando-se do referencial relacional. / The Feminist Movement contributed to the public debate on gender and conjugal violence. Conjugal violence has been discussed from the dualist conception: man-aggressor versus woman-victim and understood as violence against women. The emergence of academic works which analyzed conjugal violence by theoretical approaches, and that contested this dualist view, made possible the understanding of the subject by means of the multiple roles of men and women in a violent affective relation. The relational referential does not ignore the cultural productions on gender and ethnicity, which produce differences of power within the couple, although defends that the comprehension of violence between partners cannot be reduced to the idea of feminine subalternity. Considering these contexts, this study investigated conceptions on gender and conjugal violence of the nine psychologists who worked in public programs that assist those involved in conjugal violence in Greater Vitória, ES, Brazil, by means of a semi-structured interview that covered the following themes: psychological assistance, gender, conjugality, and conjugal violence. The psychological practices were characterized by a diversity of assistances: clinical assistances, the couple s therapy, the psychological orientation, the groups therapy, and practices in cooperation with other specialties, mainly law and social service. The main meanings were highlighted: gender was considered a relation of power between men and women, socially constructed, still strongly influenced by the traditional roles of man provider and woman nurturer. In general, conjugal violence is understood as a process of oppression mediated by an unequal power between men and women, expressed by physical and psychological aggression. The psychologists assume, therefore, a pro-feminist posture, existing basically two styles of action. One part develops actions with reference to the principles of the feminist movement, assuming exclusively a role of defense of the battered women; these interviewees assist predominantly women and demonstrate in their speeches clear influences of the dualist conception. The other group of psychologists also consider the non-symmetries between genders, but constructs the psychological practices by the mediation of conflicts between men and women, clearly considering the costs of the gender charge and the consequences of conjugal violence for men and women approaching the relational referential.

Orientadores: Joice Melo Vieira, Maria Coleta Ferreira Albino de Oliveira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T16:41:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AparicioLopez_MariadelRosario_M.pdf: 1221818 bytes, checksum: 72d8ffc8ed01491bdf36c1f5d77ac24d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Essa dissertação tem o objetivo de refletir sobre a violência de gênero no México por meio da Encuesta Nacional sobre las Dinámicas de las Relaciones en los Hogares 2006 (ENDIREH-2006). A análise desse fenômeno será realizada a partir de três eixos: 1) descrição das características sociodemográficas e socioeconômicas das mulheres casadas e unidas que vivenciaram violência física ao lado dos seus cônjuges; 2) análise dos episódios de violência física mais comuns entre os casais mexicanos e os possíveis fatores associados à violência física; 3) análise das dinâmicas conjugais através dos motivos que causam raiva nos casais e suas possíveis reações / Abstract: This dissertation reflects on gender violence in Mexico through the Encuesta Nacional sobre la Dinámica de las Relaciones en los Hogares, edition 2006 (ENDIREH-2006). The analysis of this phenomenon will be from three aspects: through a description of the sociodemographic and socioeconomic married women who lived physical violence by their husbands or spouses; presenting episodes of physical violence more common among Mexican couples and the associated factors for physical life and, finally, discusses marital dynamics through the reasons that cause anger in couples and their possible reactions / Mestrado / Demografia / Mestra em Demografia

La violence conjugale est un phénomène criminel fréquent au Québec. En 2008, les infractions commises en contexte conjugal représentaient plus de 20 % des crimes contre la personne signalés à la police (Ministère de la Sécurité publique, 2010). L’intervention policière et judiciaire en contexte conjugal est complexe, notamment en raison du lien unissant l’agresseur et la victime. Bien que le pouvoir discrétionnaire des intervenants judiciaires en contexte conjugal ait été grandement limité au cours des dernières décennies, ceux-ci bénéficient toujours d’une certaine latitude dans leur décision de poursuivre, ou non, différentes étapes du processus judiciaire. Au fil du temps, plusieurs études se sont intéressées aux éléments influençant la prise de décision en contexte conjugal. Cependant, celles-ci ne portent généralement que sur une seule étape du processus et certains facteurs décisionnels n’ont jamais été testés empiriquement. C’est notamment le cas des éléments liés aux stéréotypes de la violence conjugale. Certains auteurs mentionnent que les incidents qui ne correspondent pas au stéréotype de l’agresseur masculin violentant une victime qualifiée d’irréprochable et d’innocente font l’objet d’un traitement judiciaire plus sommaire, mais ces affirmations ne reposent, à notre connaissance, sur aucune donnée empirique. Cette étude tente de vérifier cette hypothèse en examinant l’impact de ces éléments sur cinq décisions policières et judiciaires. À partir d’une analyse de contenu quantitative de divers documents liés au cheminement judiciaire de 371 incidents commis en contexte conjugal sur le territoire du Centre opérationnel Nord du Service de police de la Ville de Montréal en 2008, la thèse examine l’utilisation du pouvoir discrétionnaire dans le traitement judiciaire de ces incidents. Elle comporte trois objectifs spécifiques. Le premier objectif permet la description du cheminement judiciaire des incidents commis en contexte conjugal. Nos résultats indiquent que ceux-ci font l’objet d’un traitement plus punitif puisqu’ils font plus fréquemment l’objet de procédures à la cour que les autres types de crimes. Cette judiciarisation plus systématique pourrait expliquer le faible taux de condamnation de ceux-ci (17,2 %). Le second objectif permet la description des principales caractéristiques de ces incidents. La majorité implique des gestes de violence physique et les policiers interviennent généralement auprès de conjoints actuels. La plupart des victimes rapportent la présence de violences antérieures au sein du couple et le tiers veulent porter plainte contre le suspect. Finalement, 78 % des incidents impliquent un agresseur masculin et une victime féminine et 14,29 % des victimes sont soupçonnées d’avoir posé le premier geste hostile ou violent lors de l’incident. Le dernier objectif permet l’identification des principaux éléments associés aux décisions prises en contexte conjugal. Les résultats confirment l’hypothèse selon laquelle les incidents n’impliquant pas un agresseur masculin et une victime féminine ou ceux dont les policiers soupçonnent la victime d’avoir posé le premier geste hostile ou violent font l’objet d’un traitement judiciaire plus sommaire. En outre, la majorité des facteurs décisionnels étudiés perdent de leur influence au cours du processus judiciaire et les décisions prises précédemment influencent fortement les décisions subséquentes. Finalement, le désir de porter plainte de la victime n’influence pas directement les décisions des intervenants judiciaires. / Conjugal violence is a frequent criminal phenomenon in the province of Quebec. In 2008, offences committed in conjugal context represented more than 20% of the crimes against the person reported to the police (Ministère de la Sécurité publique, 2010). Police and judicial intervention in conjugal context is complex, mainly because of the relationship existing between the aggressor and the victim. Even though the discretionary power of the judicial instances has decreased greatly over past decades in conjugal context, law enforcement agencies still benefits of a certain latitude in their decision to continue, or not, various stages of the legal process. Over time, several researches have studied police and legal decision-making in conjugal context. However, these various researches have generally studied only one stage of the judicial process and some decision-making factors have not been empirically tested. It is the case of the elements related to the stereotypes of conjugal violence. Some authors mention that the incidents which do not correspond to the stereotype of a male attacker using violence against an innocent female victim are subject to a more lenient judicial treatment, but these assertions are not based, to our knowledge, on any empirical data. This research will attempt to verify these assumptions by examining the impacts of these elements on five police and judicial decisions. By relying on a quantitative content analysis of various documents related to the judicial process of 371 incidents committed in conjugal context on the territory of Montreal’s police department Centre Opérationnel Nord in 2008, this research examine the use of discretion in the legal treatment of incidents committed in conjugal context. This study has three specific objectives. The first objective describes the judicial treatment of the incidents committed in conjugal context. Our results indicate that these incidents are subject to a more punitive treatment because they are more frequently submitted to court procedures than the other types of crimes. This more systematic judiciarisation could be an explanation for the weaker conviction rate of these incidents (17.2 %). The second objective describes the main characteristics of these incidents. The majority of these incidents involve physical violence and police officers intervene more frequently with people in current unions. The majority of the victims say that they have been previously victim of violence in their relationship and a third of them are willing to file a complaint against their aggressor. Finally, 78% of the incidents imply a male attacker and female victim whereas police officers suspect 14.29% of the victims of having made the first hostile or violent gesture. The last objective focuses on the identification of the elements associated to decision-making in conjugal context. The results confirm the hypothesis according to which the incidents that do not imply a male attacker and a female victim or those in which police officers suspect the victim of having made the first hostile or violent gesture are subject to a more lenient judicial treatment. Moreover, most of the decision-making factors studied lose of their influence during the legal process and the decisions previously taken strongly influence subsequent decisions. Finally, the victim’s desire to file a complaint does not directly influence legal decisions.

La violence conjugale est un phénomène criminel fréquent au Québec. En 2008, les infractions commises en contexte conjugal représentaient plus de 20 % des crimes contre la personne signalés à la police (Ministère de la Sécurité publique, 2010). L’intervention policière et judiciaire en contexte conjugal est complexe, notamment en raison du lien unissant l’agresseur et la victime. Bien que le pouvoir discrétionnaire des intervenants judiciaires en contexte conjugal ait été grandement limité au cours des dernières décennies, ceux-ci bénéficient toujours d’une certaine latitude dans leur décision de poursuivre, ou non, différentes étapes du processus judiciaire. Au fil du temps, plusieurs études se sont intéressées aux éléments influençant la prise de décision en contexte conjugal. Cependant, celles-ci ne portent généralement que sur une seule étape du processus et certains facteurs décisionnels n’ont jamais été testés empiriquement. C’est notamment le cas des éléments liés aux stéréotypes de la violence conjugale. Certains auteurs mentionnent que les incidents qui ne correspondent pas au stéréotype de l’agresseur masculin violentant une victime qualifiée d’irréprochable et d’innocente font l’objet d’un traitement judiciaire plus sommaire, mais ces affirmations ne reposent, à notre connaissance, sur aucune donnée empirique. Cette étude tente de vérifier cette hypothèse en examinant l’impact de ces éléments sur cinq décisions policières et judiciaires. À partir d’une analyse de contenu quantitative de divers documents liés au cheminement judiciaire de 371 incidents commis en contexte conjugal sur le territoire du Centre opérationnel Nord du Service de police de la Ville de Montréal en 2008, la thèse examine l’utilisation du pouvoir discrétionnaire dans le traitement judiciaire de ces incidents. Elle comporte trois objectifs spécifiques. Le premier objectif permet la description du cheminement judiciaire des incidents commis en contexte conjugal. Nos résultats indiquent que ceux-ci font l’objet d’un traitement plus punitif puisqu’ils font plus fréquemment l’objet de procédures à la cour que les autres types de crimes. Cette judiciarisation plus systématique pourrait expliquer le faible taux de condamnation de ceux-ci (17,2 %). Le second objectif permet la description des principales caractéristiques de ces incidents. La majorité implique des gestes de violence physique et les policiers interviennent généralement auprès de conjoints actuels. La plupart des victimes rapportent la présence de violences antérieures au sein du couple et le tiers veulent porter plainte contre le suspect. Finalement, 78 % des incidents impliquent un agresseur masculin et une victime féminine et 14,29 % des victimes sont soupçonnées d’avoir posé le premier geste hostile ou violent lors de l’incident. Le dernier objectif permet l’identification des principaux éléments associés aux décisions prises en contexte conjugal. Les résultats confirment l’hypothèse selon laquelle les incidents n’impliquant pas un agresseur masculin et une victime féminine ou ceux dont les policiers soupçonnent la victime d’avoir posé le premier geste hostile ou violent font l’objet d’un traitement judiciaire plus sommaire. En outre, la majorité des facteurs décisionnels étudiés perdent de leur influence au cours du processus judiciaire et les décisions prises précédemment influencent fortement les décisions subséquentes. Finalement, le désir de porter plainte de la victime n’influence pas directement les décisions des intervenants judiciaires. / Conjugal violence is a frequent criminal phenomenon in the province of Quebec. In 2008, offences committed in conjugal context represented more than 20% of the crimes against the person reported to the police (Ministère de la Sécurité publique, 2010). Police and judicial intervention in conjugal context is complex, mainly because of the relationship existing between the aggressor and the victim. Even though the discretionary power of the judicial instances has decreased greatly over past decades in conjugal context, law enforcement agencies still benefits of a certain latitude in their decision to continue, or not, various stages of the legal process. Over time, several researches have studied police and legal decision-making in conjugal context. However, these various researches have generally studied only one stage of the judicial process and some decision-making factors have not been empirically tested. It is the case of the elements related to the stereotypes of conjugal violence. Some authors mention that the incidents which do not correspond to the stereotype of a male attacker using violence against an innocent female victim are subject to a more lenient judicial treatment, but these assertions are not based, to our knowledge, on any empirical data. This research will attempt to verify these assumptions by examining the impacts of these elements on five police and judicial decisions. By relying on a quantitative content analysis of various documents related to the judicial process of 371 incidents committed in conjugal context on the territory of Montreal’s police department Centre Opérationnel Nord in 2008, this research examine the use of discretion in the legal treatment of incidents committed in conjugal context. This study has three specific objectives. The first objective describes the judicial treatment of the incidents committed in conjugal context. Our results indicate that these incidents are subject to a more punitive treatment because they are more frequently submitted to court procedures than the other types of crimes. This more systematic judiciarisation could be an explanation for the weaker conviction rate of these incidents (17.2 %). The second objective describes the main characteristics of these incidents. The majority of these incidents involve physical violence and police officers intervene more frequently with people in current unions. The majority of the victims say that they have been previously victim of violence in their relationship and a third of them are willing to file a complaint against their aggressor. Finally, 78% of the incidents imply a male attacker and female victim whereas police officers suspect 14.29% of the victims of having made the first hostile or violent gesture. The last objective focuses on the identification of the elements associated to decision-making in conjugal context. The results confirm the hypothesis according to which the incidents that do not imply a male attacker and a female victim or those in which police officers suspect the victim of having made the first hostile or violent gesture are subject to a more lenient judicial treatment. Moreover, most of the decision-making factors studied lose of their influence during the legal process and the decisions previously taken strongly influence subsequent decisions. Finally, the victim’s desire to file a complaint does not directly influence legal decisions.