“If It’s Not Femicide, It’s Still Murder”: Contestations Over Femicide in Nicaragua

IF 1.8 2区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Feminist Criminology Pub Date : 2021-08-26 DOI:10.1177/15570851211037271

Pamela Neumann

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Nicaragua has the dubious distinction of being one of the only countries in the world that has intentionally weakened its existing legislation penalizing the crime of femicide (femicidio), the murder of women due to their gender. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and content analysis of over 250 newspaper articles, this study examines how these legal changes occurred and their implications for women’s access to legal justice in Nicaragua. Through an analysis of the competing claims of state officials and feminist actors, I demonstrate how femicidio became a contested legal and political category in Nicaragua, to the detriment of women’s lives.

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“如果不是杀害女性，那仍然是谋杀”：尼加拉瓜杀害女性的争论

尼加拉瓜是世界上仅有的几个有意削弱其惩处杀害妇女罪(femicidio)的现行立法的国家之一，这是一种可疑的区别。根据对250多篇报纸文章的民族志实地调查和内容分析，本研究审查了这些法律变化是如何发生的，以及它们对尼加拉瓜妇女获得法律司法的影响。通过分析政府官员和女权主义演员之间相互竞争的主张，我展示了femicidio如何在尼加拉瓜成为一个有争议的法律和政治类别，并损害了妇女的生活。

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Feminist Criminology CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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4.80

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12.00%

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期刊介绍： The main aim of Feminist Criminology is to focus on research related to women, girls and crime. The scope includes research on women working in the criminal justice profession, women as offenders and how they are dealt with in the criminal justice system, women as victims, and theories and tests of theories related to women and crime. The feminist critique of criminology incorporates a perspective that the paths to crime differ for males and females, thus research that uses sex as a control variable often fails to illuminate the factors that predict female criminality. This journal will highlight research that takes a perspective designed to demonstrate the gendered nature of crime and responses to crime.