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- Title
Feminism and Penal Expansion: The Role of Rights-Based Criminal Law in Post-Neoliberal Ecuador.
- Authors
Tapia Tapia, Silvana
- Abstract
This article analyses feminist discourses on the criminalisation of violence against women in Ecuador, after the enactment of a "post-neoliberal" constitution. It responds to arguments in feminist legal theory, which affirm that penal expansion thrives through neoliberal globalisation, and that certain feminists have sponsored this carceral-neoliberal alliance, over and above redistributive concerns. However, in Ecuador, many feminists who participated in a recent criminalisation process also endorsed the post-neoliberal government's social redistribution programme. Ecuadorian feminism therefore complicates current discussions on carceral and governance feminism, which link penal expansion with neoliberalism and an absence of redistributive concerns. Ecuadorian left-leaning feminists use rights-based frameworks to reconcile penal interventions with potential abuses of coercive power. This allows them to regard criminal justice as minimally problematic within the redistributive agenda they endorse. At the same time, the penal approach of Ecuadorian feminists runs the danger of marginalising legally pluralistic approaches to justice.
- Subjects
FEMINISM; CRIMINAL law; NEOLIBERALISM; ECUADORIANS; HUMAN rights
- Publication
Feminist Legal Studies, 2018, Vol 26, Issue 3, p285
- ISSN
0966-3622
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10691-018-9380-5