TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Femicide penal response in the Americas: indicators and the misuses of crime statistics, evidence from Peru
JO  - International journal of criminology and sociological theory
A1  - Tuesta, Diego
A1  - Mujica, Jaris
SP  - e39739
EP  - e39739
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1916-2782
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -