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Submitted by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná (dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-03-31T18:54:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO MISAEL DE SOUSA SANTOS.pdf: 1487074 bytes, checksum: a4f3495e5c89176bd975eafdf0e4d8a0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Portela (anapoli@ufba.br) on 2016-04-06T14:21:53Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO MISAEL DE SOUSA SANTOS.pdf: 1487074 bytes, checksum: a4f3495e5c89176bd975eafdf0e4d8a0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-06T14:21:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO MISAEL DE SOUSA SANTOS.pdf: 1487074 bytes, checksum: a4f3495e5c89176bd975eafdf0e4d8a0 (MD5) / Esta dissertação analisa os sentidos e os significados atribuídos pelos policiais militares aos usos da força física em seu cotidiano profissional. Dentre os significados atribuídos por estes atores sociais, o uso da força física como forma de castigo corporal assume relevância e torna-se a principal questão analisada. O universo simbólico e a visão de mundo dos policiais militares – expressos através de seus discursos – ganham centralidade analítica e permitem compreender e interpretar os contextos sociais, as justificativas morais e os atores sociais que são alvos do uso da força física como castigo corporal. Em linhas gerais, é uma problematização acerca da sócio-dinâmica dos usos da força física por policiais militares durante suas interações com a sociedade. This dissertation analyzes the senses and meanings attributed by the military police officers to use physical force in their daily professional life. Among the meanings attributed by these social actors, the use of physical force as a form of corporal punishment is relevant and becomes the main issue analyzed. The symbolic universe and the world view of the military police - expressed through their speeches - gain analytical centrality and allow to understand and interpret the social contexts moral justifications and social actors that are targets of the use of physical force as corporal punishment. Generally speaking, it is a problematization regarding the socio-dynamics of use of physical force by military police officers during his interactions with society.

Intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) is a concerning, yet relatively understudied form of intimate partner violence (IPV). Furthermore, the majority of research regarding sexual violence fails to differentiate between different forms of control used to facilitate this violence. Although IPV has been linked to a multitude of adverse physical and health outcomes, it is less clear how these outcomes vary by type of control experienced. Using data from the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS), the current study examines the physical and non-physical tactics used to facilitate sexual violence, and the associated health outcomes. Potential gender differences in tactics experienced and resulting victim health are also explored. Results show that while physical force is associated with the greatest number of health outcomes, all three tactics are related to reporting adverse health. Additionally, gender analyses reveal that women are more likely to suffer from frequent headaches, injuries, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and to report a greater number of physical health outcomes and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms, while men who experienced physically forced sexual violence are more likely to report overall worse mental health than their female counterparts. These findings, along with policy implications and directions for future research, are then discussed.

With the aim to embark on the theoretical debate on soft and hard power, this study uses the territorial dispute between the ROK and Japan over the Dokdo/Takeshima Islands to illustrate how the common scholarly understanding of the two power concepts are incorrect and misleading. While soft power and hard power are commonly recognized as two antithetical types of power within the theoretical debate, I argue that they are in fact linked and cannot be divided into separate forms of power. Using a Foucauldian approach to discourse analysis, the thesis replaces the concepts of soft power and hard power with the concepts of representational force and physical force to showcase how representational force can enable and legitimize the use of physical force. The thesis is able to identify how the governments of the ROK and Japan exercise representational force and legitimize the use of physical force against each other, despite them being in a trilateral security cooperation with the U.S. Consequently, the study illustrates how the concepts of soft and hard power should be better understood within the theoretical debate.