This paper is about violence on conjugal and affective relations; more
precisely, on occurrences when man is the aggressor and women the victim.
The main focus of our discussion is the aggressors’ motivation from the point of
view of men involved in this type of violation. Our analysis concentrates on
police investigation considered as domestic violence, after the approval of
Maria da Penha bill . We tried to explain the social factors involved in the logical
construction guiding the actions of the aggressor. Initially, we found that there is
not an exact correspondence on the terms commonly used to denominate
aggressions perpetrated against women and girls by husbands and boyfriends,
which restricts the understanding of the real dimension of the problem. The
results suggest that violence has a rationality which is given by its relation with
tradition; as a result, it is tolerated and repeated with common sense
knowledge, acting as a language resource through which all informal codes
which serve as parameter for conjugal life are constantly being reaffirmed. It
was found that there is a relation of completeness between the one who
perpetrates the aggression and the person who suffers from it, specially in
those cases in which violence has been installed as a routine; It was also
verified that men’s aggression against wives are always related to values and
roles traditionally established as: suspicion of conjugal infidelity, domestic
hierarchy and social spaces.
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