Brazilian Feminist Criminology: new paradigms (English Edition) eBook Kindle

“In the Brazilian Feminist Criminology: new paradigms, my task is to bring elements that are capable of contributing to the fabric of a feminist criminology… I consider that, with regard to criminology, assuming it implies the subversion of the way of producing knowledge, hitherto given under epistemological parameters distant from the experiences of women and understanding the sex-gender system. I question the instrumentality of the concept of social control in criminology from the dichotomy between formal and informal, which I situate at the heart of discussions, also carried out by feminist theory, regarding the public and private sphere. I take a stand in relation to law, understanding it as a strategically valuable field of disputes for women, in order, as a result, to address the relationship between women and criminal law and, I propose the construction of a minimum criminal law program based on fundamental rights exclusive to women in two specific situations: respect for reproductive rights and gender violence. I understand that the perverse historical, social, cultural, and family character of gender violence justifies the right to protection against this type of violation to be a fundamental right exclusive to women, in the same sense as the right to self-determination, regarding abortion. And, it is from this point of view that it seems, to me, that it must be confined to the limits of action of the criminal law concerning women. Treating the feminist discourse that resorts to criminal law, based on the concrete violence historically experienced by women, is an unjustifiable and unjustified label. It is both possible and necessary that issues involving women, whether as victims, or as defendants or convicts, need to be part of a program built within the framework of a minimum criminal law.”