Biographies of men and women perpetrators of violence: a bibliographical review about the use of trajectory methods to understand the sociological phenomenon

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https://doi.org/10.15448/2178-5694.2019.2.34317

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Violence, Crime, Men, Women, Biography.

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a literature review about trajectories of men and women who have committed crimes or violent actions. The objective is to analyse empirical research published in the last ten years that
employed the biographical approach to understand this social phenomena. Literature was gathered using Scopus and SciELO electronic libraries. The final corpus included 56 documents. In the analysis of biographical trajectories, victimisation appears to be a contributing factor in the perpetration of crimes by both men and women. Furthermore, gendered socialisation — seen as a process linked to identity and assignment of meanings— appears in literature as a key aspect in the understanding of this phenomenon.

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Karina Schuh Reif, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, PUCRS.

Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais na Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Pucrs). Pesquisa vivências de mulheres autoras de violência e com passagem pela prisão com o método Narrativas Biográficas, a partir de uma leitura fenomenologicamente  fundamentada, também utilizando aparatos etnográficos. É mestre em Ciências Sociais e graduada  em Jornalismo pela Pucrs, em 2006. Atuou em assessorias de imprensa e veículos de comunicação de Porto Alegre, incluindo o jornal Correio do Povo, onde trabalhou por sete anos. Tem experiência em reportagens para internet e para impresso, nas áreas de Geral, Ensino, Economia e Polícia.

Martín Hernán Di Marco, Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA, Argentina.

Mestre e doutorando em Ciências Sociais.

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2019-12-31

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Schuh Reif, K., & Di Marco, M. H. (2019). Biographies of men and women perpetrators of violence: a bibliographical review about the use of trajectory methods to understand the sociological phenomenon. Conversas & Controvérsias, 6(2), e34317. https://doi.org/10.15448/2178-5694.2019.2.34317

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Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019): Dossiê - Biografia e Sociedade

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