The Uneven Impacts of Violence against Women Reform in Guatemala
Intersecting Inequalities and the Patchwork State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18996170 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ervin Beck (0000-0002-7674-5282, University of Oregon, corresponding author), Erin Beck |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20-35 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25222/larr.636 |
| OpenAlex | W3135683829 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 37 |
In 2008 Guatemala passed legislation criminalizing various forms of violence against women and mandating the creation of courts that would specialize in such violence. This article demonstrates that these reforms’ impacts were unevenly felt, with the most marginalized benefiting the least. It explains this gap by drawing on a historical intersectional analysis, and reveals the importance of including place alongside more commonly studied categories of difference. It also illuminates the sources of the gaps between policies and their impacts. It finds that many Guatemalan women remained marginalized from security and justice, despite attempts to protect them, for two reasons. First, the reforms isolated violence against women from other structural sources of inequality, thus undercutting their impacts for multiply marginalized women. Second, the reforms’ impacts were undermined by historically constituted patterns of state-society relations and the uneven nature of the Guatemalan state
Criminology · Development economics · Domestic violence · Economic growth · Economic Justice · Economics · Inequality · Legislation · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Structural violence · Suicide prevention · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Sex work and related issues
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |