scholarly journals Does property ownership by women reduce domestic violence? A case of Latin America

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Emin Gahramanov ◽  
Khusrav Gaibulloev ◽  
Javed Younas
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Property Ownership

Women’s type of property ownership and domestic violence: a theoretical note

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-232
Author(s):  
Emin Gahramanov ◽  
Khusrav Gaibulloev ◽  
Javed Younas
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Property Ownership

Judicialising and (de) Criminalising Domestic Violence in Latin America

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Macaulay
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Women Victims ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Spousal Abuse ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Criminal Courts ◽  
Social Violence ◽  
Latin American Countries

This article analyses the specific ways in which Latin American countries have judicialised domestic violence over the last decade. In particular, it highlights the new definitions of spousal abuse and procedures adopted in both criminal and non-criminal courts. The region has seen two countervailing tendencies, the first to criminalise, through penal code definitions and higher penalties, the second to divert this offence into legal arenas that tend, either implicitly or explicitly, towards effective decriminalisation and downgrading of this form of social violence due to their emphasis on conciliation and transactional procedures. This has resulted, in many cases, in a two-track, hybridised treatment of domestic violence that is ultimately unsatisfactory in meeting the various needs of women victims.

Private Homes and Economic Orders

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-112
Author(s):  
Amy C. Offner
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Mortgage Loans ◽  
Property Ownership ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Alliance For Progress ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Private Homes

This chapter discusses private homes in Latin America. The largest housing project built in Latin America under the Alliance for Progress was a private homeownership venture. Ciudad Kennedy, or Kennedy City, grew up on the outskirts of Bogotá during the early 1960s, a sprawling complex of private homes and apartments designed to house 84,000 people. The promise of private property ownership fascinated everyone involved in the undertaking. Nearly four decades later, an original resident of Superblock 7 explained the origins of his neighborhood by digging up a newspaper ad from 1962. Ciudad Kennedy became an international exemplar of “aided self-help housing,” a characteristic policy of mid-century developmentalism. Deployed in mixed economies worldwide, the program assigned governments the tasks of titling land, extending mortgage loans, supplying materials, and supervising construction while recipients built the housing and became property owners.

scholarly journals Domestic Violence Intervention Programs for Perpetrators in Latin America and the Caribbean

Partner Abuse ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Eugenio Esquivel Santoveña ◽  
Teresa da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Program Effectiveness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Violence Intervention ◽  
What Works ◽  
Domestic Violence Intervention ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Shed Light

Research on intervention programs for domestic violence (DV) perpetrators in the United States and in Europe has started to shed light on these interventions and the challenges they face in determining “what works” in those regions. In Latin America, the research is almost nonexistent. This study presents a literature review of studies and program protocols in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the results of a continental survey on characteristics and suggested standards for DV perpetrator programs in this region. Findings indicate perpetrator interventions in this part of the world are in their earliest stages along with the remaining challenges these involve. Suggested standards in the areas of program effectiveness, evidence-based intake assessments, tailoring of programs to minority group’s needs, the conceptualization of DV, influential risk factors, and liaisons between academia and practice are discussed.

scholarly journals Explanations for the Punitive Turn of Crime Policy in Bolivia, 2006-2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorg Stippel ◽  
Juan E Serrano Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
Crime Policy ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Prison Populations

In the last decade, Bolivia, as with most countries in the region, has seen an unprecedented increase of its prison population. This is often explained as the consequence of a punitive populism sweeping Latin America. Our article investigates what triggered this punitive turn in Bolivia by identifying some of the factors that impact crime policy and growing prison populations since the election of president Evo Morales in 2006. We argue that a complex array of local and international factors and shifts in crime policy to harden approaches to domestic violence led to steep increases in remand populations. Combined with other inefficiencies in the criminal justice system, this led to sustained increases in the prison population throughout most of this period. This study is based on new and previously unstudied statistical data produced by the Bolivian institutions in charge of implementing crime policy.

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