Legal regulation of sexual crimes in El Salvador. Analysis from a gender perspective
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https://doi.org/10.5377/ryr.v41i0.2759Keywords:
sexual freedom, sexual crimes, sexual violence, gender equalityAbstract
The article analyzes the offenses that protect the legal right to sexual freedom in Salvadoran law, focusing primarily on studying if the different types of crimes that punish the infringement of this legal right, do it from a gender equality perspective. After analyzing the various offenses, the author points that there is a lack of systematization between the different offenses. Thus, aspects such the age of sexual consent for minors and the obligation to compensate the victims of crimes against sexual freedom are not regulated in a equal manner.
Further, the author notes that in the current protection of the legal right in study persist gender stereotypes that lead on one side, that certain behaviors solely protect minors or women, and, on the other hand, the protection of the legal right is graduated on the basis of the sanction of sexual intercourse as the most serious offense, regardless of relevant aspects such as the degree of physical, sexual and emotional damage of the passive subject of the crime.
Realidad y Reflexión Año 15, N° 41, 2015
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