Abstract

BENAVIDES VANEGAS, Farid Samir. Femicide and criminal law. Rev. Crim. [online]. 2015, vol.57, n.1, pp.75-90. ISSN 1794-3108.

Homicide as a crime has an aggravating factor when it is committed simply and solely when and because the victim is a woman. In Colombia, only until March 4 2015 the Supreme Court of Justice for the first time took into account a case where the application of this aggravating factor took place, by determining the elements that are essential in the configuration of this type of crime. The recently introduced concept of femicide ("the killing of a woman" as opposed to homicide, i.e. 'he killing of a man') is analyzed within a broader concept of violence against women, just as other notions of gender-based violence, and, ultimately, sex-and/or-gender-oriented violent conducts and murder, all this for the purpose of revealing the different elements lying around and behind the femicide phenomenon afflicting us today.

Keywords : Criminal law; gender-based violence; violence against women; women's rights; femicide/feminicide.

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