The Assembling Games in the Polices’s Practices like Mechanisms to Frame the Feminine Narratives in Crimes under Law Maria da Penha

Abstract

This article aims to describe the ways police officers at the Women’s Defense Station (DDM) in Campinas, Brazil, weave threads of meaning about emotions, experiences and practices as they frame feminine narratives on domestic violence in crimes under Law Maria da Penha (Law nº 11340, August 07 2006). Along with this weaving movement, police officers embed specific criminal offences, female experiences of violence, moralities and affections in an Assembling Game, where the pieces are juxtaposed in unpredictable and idiosyncratic ways. I intended to present the ambivalences constituting the notion of domestic
violence in police perceptions and thus discuss its gains to debate the effects of improvement
of public policies to cope with domestic and family violence.