FEMICIDE AND FEMINICIDE IN HONDURAS

Abstract

Legal-criminal dogmatics are constantly evolving and cannot be indifferent to the principle of progressivity; however, some concepts can still generate hermeneutical or interpretative conflicts, especially those that arise from social demands. The incorporation of the gender perspective into the principle of legality in Honduras can mean an important step to judge and litigate with a human rights approach, but without the use of tools such as intersectionality, the biases and stereotypes strongly rooted in the legal culture can generate some type of structural violence. This article seeks to differentiate and clarify two interdependent but at the same time autonomous concepts, which allow one to make visible the legal-social problem and the other to contrast the objective elements of the maximum manifestation of gender-based violence constituted for its mitigation as a criminal offense.