Citation

Beneitez MJB. Rev. Victimol. 2023; (15): 25-56.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, Huygens Editorial)

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Abstract

The literature suggests that part of feminism has taken up the animal cause and the research shows that more women understand animals as sentient beings who are susceptible to being passive subjects of rights and interests and understand the affective and emotional bond between humans and animals. They also perceive more easily that the animal occupies a social and family position of greater dependence and vulnerability, which can be used by aggressors to cause them harm, showing greater cruelty and perversity. Therefore, we could think that, at least in the abstract, when crimes of mistreatment and abandonment of animals are committed, women will require stronger punishments, being effectively imposed, and measures to keep the animals away from their aggressors. The essential aim of this paper is to review the literature that allows us to sustain or dismantle this hypothesis, as well as to construct one on the receptiveness of women to the proposal to resolve and repair the damages of animal abuse by the tools offered by restorative justice. To this end, we have reviewed the existing bibliography on the gender perspective and the animal issue, the one on gender, punitiveness and restorative justice. These elements will allow us to verify the points of confluence and to think about whether what prevails when determining an effective response is the crime (animal abuse) or the ways of resolving it (restorative justice).

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