THE CRIME OF RAPE IN BRASIL: A SOCIODISCURSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE AUDIENCE OF THE MARIANA FERRER CASE
Abstract
The crime of rape, which has women as its main victims, is a crime that affronts the sexual and moral dignity of human beings, and has led many people, victims of abusers, to seek justice through the penal system. This article aims to analyze excerpts from the hearing of the process involving Mariana Ferrer and André de Camargo Aranha, in 2019, in order to understand how, over the years, the representation of the victim of this crime was constructed, and how this can influence court decisions today. For this analysis, we used Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (2001) and Thompson’s modes of operation of ideology (1995) as a theoretical methodological framework. The analysis showed that the inequalities in the roles culturally imposed on men and women influence the legal treatment of the subject, making it difficult to apply justice in cases of rape crimes.
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