A cultura do estupro e seus desdobramentos: uma análise sobre a potencialização dos crimes contra a dignidade sexual através da naturalização das violências sexuais na sociedade brasileira

Abstract

The proposed work aims to analyze and reflect on how everyday behaviors based on a rape culture within a society are responsible for the naturalization of crimes against sexual dignity in Brazil, resulting in a gradual and exaggerated increase of sexual violence in the country, even though these behaviors are typified and punished by our criminal legislation, while also pointing out the failures of the judicial system in combating these crimes. Thus, we sought to study and understand the high level of underreporting of crimes against sexual dignity and the lack of training for professionals in the judicial system, correlating these characteristics of the Brazilian criminal justice system with the established prejudices of a sexist and patriarchal society. The methodology used is inductive, with both qualitative and quantitative approaches, using research through doctrines from different fields of study, as well as bibliographic surveys extracted from books, articles, monographs and reports disseminated in the media, as well as current legislation. This study has both sociological and legal relevance, as it seeks to reveal the relationship between the increase of crimes against sexual dignity in Brazil and the prejudiced and stigmatized behavior of a society where the values of rape culture prevail, especially the blaming of the victim and the moral and legal impunity of the aggressor who commits sexual violence. Finally, it argues for the need to discuss rape culture in society as a way to combat and prevent sexual crimes, as well as the creation of public policies that seek, through education, to make future generations aware of the impact that rape culture has on society and Brazilian criminology.