scholarly journals Violence Against Women: The Treatment In The Spanish Criminal Law

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
Silvia Valmana Ochaita
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Social Conscience ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
Judicial Decisions ◽  
The Social

In the last years we have been witnesses of how the legal reforms about gender violence have been followed one another in Spain, and how they were fruitful in the social conscience. Nevertheless, the legal effectiveness of the reforms is still questioned, the judicial decisions often are contradictory, and the violence level is greater than ever or, at least, more visible. This work tries an approach to the study of this matter throw the legislative evolution, analyzing the lights and shadows of the Spanish Criminal System.

Legal Reform and Social Construction: Violence, Gender, and the Law

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (04) ◽  
pp. 829-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Frohmann ◽  
Elizabeth Mertz
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
The Past ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
The Social

As scholars and activists have addressed the problem of violence against women in the past 25 years, their efforts have increasingly attuned us to the multiple dimensions of the issue. Early activists hoped to change the structure of power relations in our society, as well as the political ideology that tolerated violence against women, through legislation, education, direct action, and direct services. This activism resulted in a plethora of changes to the legal codes and protocols relating to rape and battering. Today, social scientists and legal scholars are evaluating the effects of these reforms, questioning anew the ability of law by itself to redress societal inequalities. As they uncover the limitations of legal reforms enacted in the past two decades, scholars are turning—or returning—to ask about the social and cultural contexts within which laws are formulated, enforced, and interpreted.

scholarly journals Filmic witness to the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder

Urban History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 642-642
Author(s):  
CARRIE RENTSCHLER
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
High Rise ◽  
The Past ◽  
City Street ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTThis essay examines a body of films that represent and re-enact the infamous 1964 Catherine Genovese rape and murder, helping to define the crime as a problem of bystander non-intervention exacerbated by urban living conditions and the ‘high rise anxieties’ of apartment dwellers. The moving image culture around the Genovese case tells a story about male violence against women in the city through the perspective of urban apartment dwellers, who are portrayed as bystander witnesses to both the city and to the social relations of stranger sociability in the city. Films depict the killing of Kitty Genovese, sometimes through fictional analogues to her and the crime, as an outcome of failed witnessing, explicating those failures around changing ideas about urban social relations between strangers, and ways of surveilling the city street from apartment windows. By portraying urban bystanders as primarily non-interventionist spectators of the Genovese rape and murder, films locate the conditions of femicide and responsibility for it in detached modes of seeing and encountering strangers. By analysing film as forms of historic documentation and imagination, as artifacts of historically and contextually different ways of telling and revising the story of the Genovese murder as one of bystander non-intervention in gender violence in the city, the essay conceptualizes film and filmic re-enactments as a mode of paying witness to the past.

scholarly journals Perspectivas teóricas sobre la violencia contra las mujeres: una aproximación jurídica al concepto de “terrorismo machista” en España = Theoretical Perspectives on Violence against Women: a Legal Approach to the Concept of 'Sexist Terrorism' in Spain

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Inés Moreno Martín-Pozuelo
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Law System ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
The Media ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Crimes Against Women

Resumen. Durante los últimos años, el concepto de terrorismo machista ha cobrado un importante protagonismo en los medios de comunicación como vía para informar de los crímenes cometidos en el ámbito de la ley de violencia de género, si bien dicho uso del término no ha venido acompañado de un análisis jurídico del mismo. Por otra parte, la emergencia de conceptos como femicidio y la concienciación social respecto a la vinculación de las agresiones sexuales con el patriarcado como sistema social de dominación ponen de manifiesto la necesi­dad de reconsiderar de qué forma se configura la violencia contra la mujer en el sistema penal actual. Desde una metodología analítica, esta investigación se propone analizar los fundamen­tos jurídicos para entender la violencia contra la mujer como una forma de terrorismo.Palabras clave: violencia de género, terrorismo, femicidio, feminicidio, género, terrorismo machista.Abstract. During the last years, the concept of sexist terrorism has gained presence in the media as a way to inform about the commission of crimes against women. However, the use of this concept lacks in providing a legal analysis. On the other side, the emergency of no­tions such as femicide and the social acknowledgement of sexual aggressions as a consequence of the patriarchy brings to light the need to redefine in which way those crimes are considered under the criminal law system. This research aims to analyze the legal founds in order to con­sider violence against women as a form of terrorism.Keywords: gender violence, terrorism, femicide, feminicide, gender, sexist terrorism.

scholarly journals Between Sexual Violence and Autonomy: Rethinking the Engagement of the Indian Women’s Movement with Criminal Law

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 860-877
Author(s):  
Kalika Mehta ◽  
Avantika Tiwari
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
The State ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gang Rape

AbstractThe aftermath of protests triggered by a brutal gang-rape in New Delhi in December 2012 was archetypal of the broader women’s movement in post-independence India. The primary demands of the social movement to address sexual violence against women were wrapped in the language of rights-based reforms in criminal law provisions. The state responded to the social mobilization in the form of criminal law amendments, while blindsiding key recommendations from feminist groups. This Article revisits pertinent Law Commission reports, subsequent criminal law reforms, and case law on sexual violence against women to analyze how the negotiations between the women’s movement and the State on the seemingly irreconcilable demands of sexual autonomy and punishment for sexual violence. We take account of the intended and unintended consequences of this reliance on criminal law as one of the primary tools in the arsenal of Indian women’s movements. We argue that engagement on the plane of criminal law to address sexual violence against women is a case of limited imagination at best and counter-productive at its worst. This approach of the movement and feminist groups is to react to the “crime” of sexual violence after the fact, leading to distraction from much warranted structural responses. We argue that this approach makes it harder to conceptualize and implement more forward-looking relational models of responsibility that are necessary to address the structural injustice of systemic sexual violence against women.

scholarly journals FEMICIDE AND GENDER VIOLENCE IN MEXICO: ELEMENTS FOR A SYSTEMIC APPROACH

2019 ◽  
pp. 158-183
Author(s):  
GEOFREDO ANGULO LOPEZ
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Current Control ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
The Social ◽  
Judicial Reasoning ◽  
And Gender

This article aims to address gender violence and femicide through the analysis of several aspects related with its reality and current problematic or conundrum, the new standards to widen gender perspective in the ministerial practices and judicial reasoning, as well as the controversies and tensions generated by the social risk related to impunity and the current control policies and exception categories created to fight femicides and violence against women with the principles and fundaments wherewith the criminal justice system and human rights operate in Mexico.

scholarly journals FEMINICÍDIO COMO REFLEXO DA CULTURA DE OBJETIFICAÇÃO E DOMINAÇÃO DA MULHER

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 116-135
Author(s):  
Ana Luíza Duarte de Carvalho ◽  
Kamila Montes Ferreira ◽  
Maria Eduarda de Souza Ramos ◽  
Sthefany Cristina da Silva Nunes
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
The Social

Resumo O presente artigo tem como objetivo abordar o crime de feminicídio, recentemente tipificado no Código Penal brasileiro pela Lei nº 13.104/2015. Busca-se abordar a violência contra a mulher em uma perspectiva histórica, no âmbito social e doméstico, o conceito de feminicídio, o tratamento no direito penal e sua relevância jurídica. Palavras-chave:Direito Penal. Violência Contra a Mulher. Feminicídio.   Abstract This article aims to address the crime of feminicide, recently typified in the Brazilian Penal Code by Law No. 13.104/2015. It seeks to address violence against women from a historical perspective, in the social and domestic sphere, bringing the concept of feminicide, the treatment by criminal law and its legal relevance. Keywords: Criminal Law. Violence Against Women. Feminicide.

scholarly journals Notas epistemológicas en torno a la política de cifras de la violencia contra las mujeres

2020 ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Cecilia Varela ◽  
Catalina Trebisacce
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
The One

En el presente trabajo nos proponemos abordar la política de cifras desplegadas por los movimientos de mujeres en Argentina de la última década en torno a las violencias contra las mujeres. En un contexto de expansión de los feminismos en el país y una creciente institucionalización de perspectivas que se reconocen en esa matriz, la retórica de las cifras se ha convertido en la lingua franca para la visibilización de las situaciones de violencia contra las mujeres. Las preguntas que nos formulamos son las siguientes: ¿Cómo se organiza hoy el saber sobre la violencia de género? ¿Cómo operan las cifras en la construcción de ese saber y en su difusión e impacto social? Tomando como corpus para la indagación el registro de femicidios de la Casa del Encuentro nos interesa, por un lado, detenernos en los supuestos epistemológicos y las elecciones metodológicas de su confección y, por el otro, abordar los procesos sociales de construcción y validación de cifras en torno a los femicidios en un contexto de despliegue de políticas de cifras. Nuestro argumento es, por un lado, que el registro despliega un método positivista inductivo que actúa ficciones de objetividad científica a partir del empleo de las cifras como evidencia indiscutible de los “hechos”. Por el otro lado, sostenemos que un saber en torno a los femicidios se legitima como experto a partir de la política de cifras. In this paper we aim to address the politics of numbers displayed by women's movements in Argentina in the last decade about violence against women. In a context of expansion of feminisms across the country and a growing institutionalization of the gender perspective, the rhetoric of numbers has become the lingua franca for the visibility of situations of violence against women. The questions we ask ourselves are: How is the knowledge about gender violence organized today? How do the figures operate in the construction of this knowledge and in its dissemination and social impact? Taking as a corpus the register of femicides of Casa del Encuentro, we are interested, on the one hand, in interrogate the epistemological assumptions and the methodological choices behind it and, on the other, to address the social processes of construction and validation of figures around femicides in a context of politics of numbers. Our argument is, on the one hand, that the register displays an inductive positivist method that acts fictions of scientific objectivity based on the use of figures as indisputable evidence of "facts". On the other hand, we argue that knowledge about femicides is legitimized as expert based on the politics of numbers.

scholarly journals Perception and Attitudes of Physicians and Nurses about Violence against Women

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Cyntia Paulin Baraldi ◽  
Ana Maria de Almeida ◽  
Gleici Perdoná ◽  
Elisabeth Meloni Vieira ◽  
Manoel Antonio dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Medical Problem ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
District Health ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Health Care Clinics ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
The Social

Cross-sectional study compares the perception and attitudes about violence against women of physicians and nurses working in the primary health care clinics in Ribeirão Preto, SP. A total of 170 physicians and 51 nurses were interviewed in the District Health Clinics. Physicians feel more comfortable than nurses to talk about the sex life of patients () and to investigate the use of drugs (0.001). Compared to the nurses greater number of physicians believed that the aggression to the woman by the husband should be treated as a medical problem (). Both believe that external factors, as alcohol or drug abuse, unemployment, and psychological problems of the husband and not of the victim, can cause violent acts. Most interviewees understand that gender violence exceeds the issues of individuality and privacy and has become a public health problem, by the dimension present in the social relationships.

Murder with Impunity: The Construction of Arab Masculinities and Honor Crimes

1970 ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
May Abu Jaber
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Male Authority ◽  
Cultural Networks ◽  
Gender Specific

Violence against women (VAW) continues to exist as a pervasive, structural,systematic, and institutionalized violation of women’s basic human rights (UNDivision of Advancement for Women, 2006). It cuts across the boundaries of age, race, class, education, and religion which affect women of all ages and all backgrounds in every corner of the world. Such violence is used to control and subjugate women by instilling a sense of insecurity that keeps them “bound to the home, economically exploited and socially suppressed” (Mathu, 2008, p. 65). It is estimated that one out of every five women worldwide will be abused during her lifetime with rates reaching up to 70 percent in some countries (WHO, 2005). Whether this abuse is perpetrated by the state and its agents, by family members, or even by strangers, VAW is closely related to the regulation of sexuality in a gender specific (patriarchal) manner. This regulation is, on the one hand, maintained through the implementation of strict cultural, communal, and religious norms, and on the other hand, through particular legal measures that sustain these norms. Therefore, religious institutions, the media, the family/tribe, cultural networks, and the legal system continually disciplinewomen’s sexuality and punish those women (and in some instances men) who have transgressed or allegedly contravened the social boundaries of ‘appropriateness’ as delineated by each society. Such women/men may include lesbians/gays, women who appear ‘too masculine’ or men who appear ‘too feminine,’ women who try to exercise their rights freely or men who do not assert their rights as ‘real men’ should, women/men who have been sexually assaulted or raped, and women/men who challenge male/older male authority.

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