TY - JOUR
T1 - Impunity and multisided violence in the lives of Latin American women
T2 - El Salvador in comparative perspective
AU - Walsh, Shannon Drysdale
AU - Menjívar, Cecilia
PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
N2 - Women in El Salvador experience some of the highest levels of violence in the world in the form of feminicides: killings of women in a context of impunity. This trend is widespread, and this article contributes to a broader explanation of it through a case study of El Salvador in comparison to other Latin American countries. Although El Salvador has created institutions and laws to combat these crimes and ratified the 1994 Convention of Belém do Pará, crimes against women have continued undiminished. The authors argue that impunity and violence in El Salvador are deeply intertwined, with roots in multisided violence – a potent combination of structural, symbolic, political, gender and gendered, and everyday forms of violence. While much previous research has focused on individual acts of aggression, the authors advance an analysis of the extrapersonal structures that create and exacerbate the conditions that permit violent acts and impunity to persist.
AB - Women in El Salvador experience some of the highest levels of violence in the world in the form of feminicides: killings of women in a context of impunity. This trend is widespread, and this article contributes to a broader explanation of it through a case study of El Salvador in comparison to other Latin American countries. Although El Salvador has created institutions and laws to combat these crimes and ratified the 1994 Convention of Belém do Pará, crimes against women have continued undiminished. The authors argue that impunity and violence in El Salvador are deeply intertwined, with roots in multisided violence – a potent combination of structural, symbolic, political, gender and gendered, and everyday forms of violence. While much previous research has focused on individual acts of aggression, the authors advance an analysis of the extrapersonal structures that create and exacerbate the conditions that permit violent acts and impunity to persist.
KW - Convention of Belém do Pará
KW - El Salvador
KW - feminicide
KW - laws addressing violence against women
KW - multisided violence
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U2 - 10.1177/0011392116640474
DO - 10.1177/0011392116640474
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84975051373
SN - 0011-3921
VL - 64
SP - 586
EP - 602
JO - Current Sociology
JF - Current Sociology
IS - 4
ER -