The banality of evil of domestic abusers in the city of castanhal-pa
International Journal of Development Research
The banality of evil of domestic abusers in the city of castanhal-pa
Received 14th June 2020; Received in revised form 20th July 2020; Accepted 08th August 2020; Published online 29th September 2020
Copyright © 2020, Danyllo Pompeu Colares et al. 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.
This paper analyzed criminal charges filed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office against domestic abusers in the city of Castanhal, state of Pará, Brazil, in the years of 2017 and 2018, specifying recidivism as a factor to confirm if domestic abusers had committed any previous criminal offenses. We adopted the concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Hannah Arendt and their implications in the conduct of abusers to demonstrate the banality of such conduct, in the sense that they are not demonic creatures or hardened criminals. In this work, we managed to prove that most domestic abusers did not have prior criminal records, nor were they a danger to public safety; they were normal, banal men.
