SOCIAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST MAN

Abstract

Domestic violence is a social problem, often present silently in several homes, causing irreparable damage to its victims. Although already there advances in the law in this sense, what we can observe is the way the victim behaves in the face of aggression, most of the time not denouncing it because of the shame of family members, neighbors or even, due to the authorities' discredit. Although, at first, the term domestic violence is interpreted as violence against women, it can be expressed against anyone, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. Occurs differentiation in the state protection of basic rights, such as the right to physical integrity and health, due to gender? In the present work, violence against men will be approached, existing, in comparison, in the same proportion as violence against women, however little widespread and treated as a taboo.