The violence between intimate partners in the city of praia: report of the victims of the neighborhoods of santo antónio and terra branca

For a long time, intimate partner violence was considered strictly of private nature, belonging to a household environment. However, this theme is gradually gaining notoriety in society and becoming more and more a matter of public and current importance. Marital violence translates the violence strictly based on the gender perspective, supported by the patriarchal and dichotomous differences that exists between men and women. Within this theme, the present paper aims to address the perception of victims of gender-based violence committed by their intimate partners in the neighborhoods of Achada de Santo António and Terra Branca, in the city of Praia, Cabo Verde. The research used qualitative and descriptive study and semi-structured interviews as an instrument for data collection from August 2015 to December 2016. Two women and two men were interviewed. For the analysis of the data, we opted for the Content Analysis technique, with the help of Nvivo 10 software. Among the main results, it was possible to verify that both women and men experienced violence at some point of the affective coexistence, on aphysical, psychological and patrimonial level, showing their tendency to ignore minor daily conflicts and resorting to police records in cases of extreme violence and drastic measures. The discussion about marital violence becomes fundamental to understand the dynamics that gives visibility to the issue, as well as to support and help the public institutions and the society as a whole to come up with new policies for prevention, coping and combat of this type of violence.