TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Do we see victims' agency? Criminal justice and gender violence in Spain
JO  - Critical criminology
A1  - Cubells, Jenny
A1  - Calsamiglia, Andrea
SP  - 107–127
EP  - 107–127
VL  - 26
IS  - 1
N2  - The Spanish criminal justice system has a specific Law for Gender Violence (1/2004). This article addresses what happens when a law with a feminist perspective is implemented in a predominantly patriarchal institution. The main aim of this paper is to approach women's experiences in the Spanish criminal justice system, analysed as a technology of power producing women's subjectivities, and focusing on their agency. We used a qualitative methodology with participant observation (24 sessions) and in-depth interviews with professionals working with gender violence (17) and women who reported gender violence by their heterosexual partner (11 individual and 1 group). We analysed data with the qualitative analysis software Atlas.ti. The results focus on subjective processes and agency among reporting violence, the expedited trial, protection and restraining orders, and probation.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1205-8629
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10612-017-9379-2
ID  - ref1
ER  -