Article
Spanish
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Abstract
Following the trend in other countries in the region, femicide – the killing of women on grounds of gender – has been incorporated into Peruvian legislation as a criminal type. Such inclusion is the result of the interest of the state and civil society organisations in producing policies aimed at reducing gender-based violence, and has been correlated to a speech on “increasing femicide” and the systematic emergence of media news and official reports warning about its exponential growth. This article shows the situation of femicide in Peru through a comparative perspective. The aim is to account for the incidence of feminicide in sociometric terms and to show that it is not an exponential phenomenon in epidemiological terms. This is linked to the recognition of two problems: on the one hand, how to construct indicators for criminal registration figures and their measurement methods; on the other hand, to reflect the importance of this phenomenon in a more complex and widespread violence structure.