Percepción de funcionarios de una Unidad del Consejo de la Judicatura del Azuay, respecto a las causas y consecuencias de la violencia, período 2023

Abstract

Violence has now been taken as a public health problem, which has given way to Judicial System intervention, establishing judicial and health institutions that provide support to victims of gender and intrafamily violence. The objective of this study was to describe the causes and consequences of violence, based on the perception of the officials of the Violence Unit of the Council of the Judiciary of Azuay, in the year 2023 We chose to use a qualitative approach methodology, descriptive scope and phenomenological design. We worked with 12 officials to whom an in-depth interview was applied, being this the only research technique used to identify the perception regarding the causes and consequences of violence in couples and family groups, as well as the consequences that this generates in direct or collateral victims. The results obtained regarding the causes of violence are mainly the exercise of power, assigned roles and naturalization of violence; regarding the consequences, the main ones are related to psychological problems such as low self-esteem, depression and anxiety; the consequences of violence were identified as not being the same in all victims, as they usually depend on the context in which they find themselves.