Ideas Machistas en Hombres Generadores de Violencia Durante la Suspensión Condicional del Proceso

Abstract

Violence against women is a problem that has historically occurred at the international, national, and local levels. At the criminal justice level, attempts have been made to eradicate violence against women through work with men who perpetrate violence. One of these criminal tasks is the conditional suspension of proceedings, which is defined as a measure that sanctions and monitors men who commit the crime of domestic violence. To comply with this criminal measure, they must attend mandatory psychological sessions through the Ministry of Health's re-education program. The question guiding this research is: To what extent, with the re-education workshop, do men recognize their sexist ideas through the physical and psychological consequences of exercising violence against their partners during the conditional suspension of proceedings? And what is the discourse regarding men's sexist ideas after attending the re-education workshop? Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate a group of men who began their psychological process for the crime of domestic violence, the intervention lasted 6 months, starting with 11 attendees and ending with 9. To evaluate whether these men's sexist ideas that promote violence against their partners decreased, a mixed approach and a quasi-experimental design with pretest and posttest were used. From the quantitative paradigm, the instrument "Inventory of distorted thoughts about women and violence" was applied, and from the qualitative field, 5 pretest interviews and 3 posttest interviews were applied, obtaining data saturation from grounded theory and processing the information with Atlas TI. 9 and SPSS 22. The result obtained is that the reduction program for men who generate violence is partially effective, since effective aspects and areas for improvement were found so that the program is fully sufficient for the reduction of sexist ideas that promote violence against their partners. On the other hand, men's discourse identifies a relationship with power and control that is related to the exercise of violence, but a change is also observed in men's discourse when they apply tools that the program provides to prevent violence.