文章基本信息

标题：Femicide Penal Response in the Americas: Indicators and the Misuses of Crime Statistics, evidence from Peru
本地全文：下载
作者：Diego Tuesta ; Jaris Mujica
期刊名称：International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory (IJCST)
印刷版ISSN：1916-2782
出版年度：2014
卷号：7
期号：1
语种：English
出版社：York University
摘要：During the last decade, several countries in Latin America have enacted femicide as a gender-specific criminal figure. Legal modifications throughout the region were a corollary of political debates, broad perceptions and sensibilities regarding <>, and the systematic appearance of media stories and official reports warning of an exponential growth. This article focuses upon the problem of femicide, both as a social phenomenon and a juridical figure, through a comparative socio-legal approach that takes Peru’s penal reform as a case study. The aim is to account for the incidence of femicide in demographic terms and demonstrate that this is not a phenomenon of exponential growth, contrary to media stories and punitive discursive practices regarding the need of a penal reform in the country. This is achieved by recognizing an issue of increasing importance: the challenge of building gender-based indicators to measure and prosecute femicide into the criminal justice.