Aspectos de los Femicidios en la Región del Alto Valle de Rio Negro. Características, Información y Abordajes Locales

Abstract

In Argentina, in 2012, the Penal Code was modified to include femicide through National Law 26,791. That’s why this investigation covers femicide problems, as a conclusion of violence cycle based on gender. In this way, the objective was to characterize femicides from Alto Valle de Rio Negro between 2013 till 2018, in order to discover relevant aspects and to watch the judicial and criminalistics procedures. A documental analysis was done covering regional news and investigations related to 15 cases in terms of describing facts, victims, victimizers and scene. Based on the results, was partially possible to verify that the criminalistic analysis and judicial process didn’t use the gender perspective context into local woman homicides for gender reasons and exists an underestimation about the quantity of cases in which the figure of femicide is applied.