Specialised (in)security: violence against women, criminal courts, and the gendered presence of the state in Ecuador
This article asks what the reliance on criminal law and policy to address violence against women (VAW) reveals about the gendered interaction between law, development, and security. Using empirical research on Ecuador’s specialised courts for VAW, we argue that the state’s turn to criminal law—ofte...
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| Main Authors: | Silvana Tapia Tapia, Kate Bedford |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Derecho
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Latin American Law Review |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/lar/article/view/4701 |
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