Feminicide: Impunity for the Perpetrators and Injustice for the Victims

• Autores: Julia E. Monárrez Fragoso
• Localización: The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South / Kerry Carrington (ed. lit.), Russell Hogg (ed. lit.), John Scott (ed. lit.), Máximo Sozzo (ed. lit.), 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-65020-3, págs. 913-929
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This chapter considers the power of the concept of ‘feminicide’ (Russell and Radford, Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing. Twayne Publishers, 1992) to name the entrenched ongoing vulnerability of women and girls to feminicide. Drawing from a history of Juárez, Mexico’s feminicide, and statistics from the Feminicidio [Feminicide] 1993–2016 database, I analyze a system of gendered violence created by an exceptionally complacent State of Mexico toward the killing of women and girls. I argue that Juárez demonstrates a case of ‘systemic sexual feminicide’ where there have been virtually no legal consequences for perpetrators (Agamben, Homo Sacer. El poder soberano y la nuda vida. Pre-Textos, 2006). Using the methodology of the oppressed (Sandoval, Methodology of the Oppressed. University of Minnesota Press, 2000), I also consider examples of social resistance by relatives of the victims to attempt to forge other possibilities for access to justice.