O emprego da linguística forense como prevenção ao crime de feminicídio na cidade de Salvador (BA): estudo dos anos de 2017 e 2018.

Abstract

The present dissertation, overall, deals with the use of Forensic Linguistics as a possibility to prevent the crime of feminicide. As it is well known, femicide is a problem that has gained space in the media due to its relevance and to the significant increase in the number of cases that occur daily in the Brazilian scenario and, especially, in Bahia. By means of a qualitative research, with an empirical basis, the objective was, at first, the technical analysis of legal proceedings pending at the Court of Justice of the State of Bahia (Tribunal de Justiça da Bahia – TJBA), which served for the constitution of a corpus for the present study; in a second moment, in a more specific way, the descriptive approach was used when assessing the social profile of the victims, thus allowing, based on this set of data referring to crimes of femicide, the real mapping of the characteristics of women who suffered homicides in the capital under study, as well as the type of feminicide, characterizing, from this, the profile of the aggressor, in addition to specifying the location and circumstances where the crime occurred. As one of the results of the research, due to the documental analysis undertaken in later stages, it was observed that in the feminicides that occurred in Salvador, capital of Bahia, in the period between 2017 and 2018, most of the authors had an intimate relationship with their victims. In addition, space was opened for a critical discussion of how Forensic Linguistics could be applied in such cases, questioning, in the same way, the application of public policies for the prevention of femicide.