@article{ref1,
title="Femicide penal response in the Americas: indicators and the misuses of crime statistics, evidence from Peru",
journal="International journal of criminology and sociological theory",
year="2014",
author="Tuesta, Diego and Mujica, Jaris",
volume="7",
number="1",
pages="e39739-e39739",
abstract="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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1916-2782",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}