A crime is an offence that merits community condemnation and punishment, usually by way of fine or imprisonment.
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Analysis of the Concept of Femicide: A Study of 102 Concepts
Arturo Luque González (Universidad Tecnica de Manabí, Ecuador & Universidad del Rosario, Colombia), Aracely Berenice Apunte Guerra (Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador), Jeniffer Elizabeth Robles Briones (Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador), Jesús Ámgel Coronado Martín (Universidad Técnica del Norte, Ecuador), and Juan Carlos Morales-Intriago (Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9187-1.ch003
Abstract
Femicide is intrinsically part of gender-based violence, and the two are inevitably linked at all levels. Yet, despite having a common origin, there is a need to analyze femicide as a problem that must be recognized, in social and legal terms, as having its own, particular features. To achieve this, an analysis of 102 concepts was carried out through a frequency count in Google Scholar, followed by their categorization, saturating in six dimensions: economic, social, legal, political, ethical, and cultural. The methodology used a higher-order association of hierarchies by establishing a dyad-triad-tetrad model that shows only the most representative combinations extracted from the definitions of greater weight and scope. From this, it emerges that the current concept of femicide is defined on the basis of a dual social-ethical category in view of its frequency of use in Google. This highlights the distance between what, a priori, seems to implicitly allow for any definition of femicide and the existing reality that favors private or institutional interests.