Violência contra o idoso na cidade de Manaus: visões e práticas dos agentes públicos da delegacia especializada em crimes contra o idoso - DECCI

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the views and practices of public officials to violence against the elderly in the city of Manaus. Therefore, we delimit specific objectives that led us to know "What's being old these days"; "The profile of the elderly in Brazil and the Amazon"; "The types of violence against the elderly and the most frequent occurrences in Manaus between the years 2013 and 2015"; As a place of research defined the Police Specialized Crimes Against Elderly - DECCI, located in the city of Manaus, which works to combat and prevent all kinds of violence against the elderly, enabling us to get the civil police view that act in this context and to present the structural conditions and development of its activities in DECCI. semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, observation and documentary research and police reports records for this were made. As a result, it was concluded that the person answering the Elderly DECCI is compromised by the lack station structure. Another observation is the failure of public officials working in the realization of the rights of the elderly and combating crimes against the population.