Profile of gender violence against the lgbt population and associated factors
International Journal of Development Research
Profile of gender violence against the lgbt population and associated factors
Received 19th December, 2019; Received in revised form 17th January, 2020; Accepted 08th February, 2020; Published online 30th March, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Filomena Maria Rates Soares and Maria Judith Sucupira da Costa Lins. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: to identify the predictive potential of sociodemographic variables and characteristics of the main complaints of crimes reported against the LGBT population. Methods: quantitative, descriptive research conducted at the Police Office for Prosecution of Homophobic Crimes, through consultation of occurrences registered from January 2017 to 2018. The data collection instrument was built based on the data available in the Detailed Terms of Occurrence. The analysis was carried out using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: of the sample, 64.2% (n = 34) were male, with mean age of 32.5 years (± 10.5 years), 83.3% (n = 30) had eight or more years of study, 79.2% (n = 42) had suffered insult, 71.7% suffered threats (n = 38), 41.5% (n = 22) suffered verbal aggression, and 1.9% (n = 1) physical aggression. Conclusion: the variables perpetrator of the crime, schooling and victim’s age were considered strong predictors for the crime of insult, and sex and gender were predictors of medium strength.
