Os interrogatórios policiais da delegacia de repressão a crimes contra a mulher: fases e tarefas em uma perspectiva interacional

Abstract

This research aims to map and describe - in the theoretical-methodological perspective within the framework of Conversation Analysis (CA) - the overall structural organization in terms of phases and tasks performed by inspectors in the police interrogations. Thus, data were generated in an All-female Police Station in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, since violence against women, or that one committed against individuals who have affection relations between them, is considered a social problem. In the environment of the All-female Police Station, we divided the interrogatory event in three distinct phases: (i) the stage of identifying the participants, in which the inspector collects information on identity (as a natural person) of the parties involved, (ii) the task of reading the Incident Report, in which the parties are informed about the nature of the subpoena and (iii) the task of questioning, in which the questions are specifically directed to the attempt of ascertain the truth of the facts and they are organized, sequentially, in adjacent pairs of Question-Answer (Q-A). It is relevant to note that the sequential order highlights the asymmetric relationship between the participants, since it is the inspector, legal representative, who has the right and the power to coordinate the interaction that is co-constructed by all interlocutors in the institutional environment of the All-female Police Station.