The article argues ways of institutional functioning of the Women's Police Stations and the Criminal Special Courts in the attendance to the cases of domestic violence, before the Maria da Penha Law, taking as counterpoint the presentation of an experience developed in one Women's Police Station of Sergipe State, in which was implanted, during two years, in experimental character, a Nucleus of Mediation of Conflicts. The work argues the social function of the Police and of Justice, for beyond the repression to crime, debating, on a hand, the limits of the penal actions, and on the other hand, the application of the legal instrument of mediation of conflicts in police spaces, faced to the confrontation of the violence against the woman. Finally, it makes some appreciations on the new Brazilian legislation for the attendance to the women in situation of domestic violence.
Women's Police stations; Domestic violence; Mediation of conflicts