When Violence against Women Kills

Sagot, Montserrat; Cabanas, Ana

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“…Killing is the final act of 'sexist terrorism', in a trajectory that proceeds from discrimination to battery, from abuse to sexual violence, culminating in a lethal conclusion. In brief, sexual violence carries the threat and the seed of death (Sagot and Cabañas, 2010;Butler, 2020). And if we deem the promise of life the main feature of the social, we must conclude that sexual violence and femicide are the most cruel way of denying the social: society does not exist!…”

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Critical Criminology Today

Ruggiero¹

2021

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Ruggiero¹

2021

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“…The change in the analytical tool from sex to gender represents an effort to 'shift the analytic focus on how gender norms, inequalities, and power relationships increase women's vulnerability to violence' (Fregoso and Bejarano, 2010: 4). Femicide is a fruit of gender socialization, leading men and women to reproduce and justify social hierarchies derived from gender roles and normalizing violence against women as a structural part of the gender-oppressive system (Sagot and Carcedo Cabañas, 2010). Femicidal violence has a political motivation, as a means to perpetuate power relations (Caputi and Russell, 1992: 16).…”

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Criminalization of femicide in Latin America: Challenges of legal conceptualization

Pasinato¹,

Ávila

2022

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The concept of femicide was created within the feminist theoretical field of studies influencing Law reform in Latin America. Eighteen countries throughout the region have criminalized femicide based on different legal provisions, in intimate and nonintimate relations. This article aims to provide a comparison of legal definitions of femicide as adopted in Latin American legal frameworks and to analyze the challenges of using law to give a name to the gender-based killings of women. The transition of the concept to law may partially impact its potential since other forms of gender-based violence may be hidden in a general clause of ‘gender prejudice’. It may also lead to restricted recognition in the legal system since traditionally this system operates in a conservative way wherein individual criminal liability has limitations in addressing institutional discrimination. Despite regional challenges, criminalization has contributed to raising social awareness on gendered killings. It has induced improvements in statistics and pushed for more attention on prevention policies and support for survivors and relatives. Nevertheless, current conservative movements tend to stress only the punitive approach and entail backlash on gender equality policies. This comparative study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the concept in the region.

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“…Истраживања фемицида указују на присутне полне разлике и родну димензију злоупотребе ватреног оружја у контексту насиља над женама. Фемицид је термин који се користи од 1970-их година и односи се на убијање жена или девојака, само зато што су жене, чиме се наглашава родна димензија овог дела (Bloom, 2008;Sagot, Carcedo, 2010). Термин се сада широко користи да означи свако убиство жене или девојчице, било од стране интимног партнера, познаника или странца.…”

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Контрола Ватреног Оружја И Родно Засновано Насиље: Линк Који Недостаје?

Spasic

2021

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In the early 2000s, estimates indicated the presence of over a million pieces of firearms and a large amount of ammunition in the possession of Serbian citizens. At the same time, the demographics of domestic violence pointed to the consequences of the misuse of firearms in the context of family and partner violence. A large number of women’s killings (annually between 30 and 40) also raised the issue of possession of (non) legal weapons, as well as the adequate response of institutions in preventing fatal outbreaks. On the basis of the fact that Serbia passed the Law on Weapons and Ammunition in 2015, in 2013 it ratified the Istanbul Convention and adopted the Law on the Prevention of Domestic Violence in 2016, and the statistics on the death by murder of women in the context of domestic violence, the analytical approach in the paper focuses on seeking the answer to the question: whether the existing legislative framework provides for the protection of victims of violence against the misuse of firearms? The findings of study indicate the need to enhance the coherence of the legislative response to the risks posed by the presence of firearms in the family context, as well as establishing stronger links between the legislative framework for the control of firearms and the laws governing the response to domestic violence and partner violence.

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When Violence against Women Kills

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Criminalization of femicide in Latin America: Challenges of legal conceptualization

Контрола Ватреног Оружја И Родно Засновано Насиље: Линк Који Недостаје?

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