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TRANSFORMING STATE RESPONSES TO FEMINICIDE

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PERSPECTIVES ON CRIME, LAW AND JUSTICE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

Series editors: Prof Kerry Carrington and Prof Máximo Sozzo

Scholarly perspectives on crime, law and justice have generally been sourced from a select number of countries from the Global North, whose journals, conferences, publishers and universities dominate the intellectual landscape. As a consequence, research about these matters in the Global South has tended to uncritically reproduce concepts and arguments developed in the Global North to understand local problems and processes. In recent times, there have been substantial efforts to undo this colonized way of thinking leading to a burgeoning body of new work. Southern theories, subaltern knowledges and border epistemologies are challenging the social science to open up new ways of thinking about society, crime, law and justice.

This book series aims to publish and promote innovative new scholarship with a long term view of enhancing cognitive justice and democratising the production of knowledge. Topics of interest from the perspective of the global south include - environmental and ecological plunder; gendered violence; religion, war and terror; drug wars; the historical and contemporary legacies of slavery; the contemporary legacies of injustice arising from dispossession and colonisation; systems of punishment and forms of customary or transitional justice; human rights abuses and struggles for justice - all of which threaten the security of peoples who inhabit the global south.

Previous Volume:

• Southern Green Criminology: A Science to End Ecological Discrimination

  Edited by David Rodríguez Goyes

Forthcoming Volumes:

• Perspectives on the Histories of Punishment in Ireland

  Edited by Lynsey Black, Louise Brangan and Deirdre Healy

• International Editorial Advisory Board

  Prof Elena Azaola Garrido, Centre for study and investigation Social Anthropology, Mexico

• Prof Rosemary Barberet, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA

• Dr Jarrett Blaustein, Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University, Australia

• Prof G.S. Bajpai, Registrar & Professor, National Law University, Delhi, India

• Associate Prof Avi Brisman, University of Kentucky, USA

• Prof Meda Chesney-Lind, University of Hawaii, USA

• Prof Elliott Currie, University of California, USA

• Prof Camila Prando, University of Brazil, Brazil

• Prof Patricia Faraldo Cabana, University of A Coruna, Spain

• Dr Kate Fitzgibbon, Monash University, Australia

• Prof Manuel Iturralde, Universidad de Andes, Colombia

• Prof Jianhong Liu, University of Macau, China

• Dr David Rodriguez Goyes, Assistant professor at the Antonio Nariño University, Colombia

• Prof Vera Malaguti, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Prof Ragnhild Sollund, University of Oslo, Norway

• Elizabeth Stanley, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• Prof Clifford Shearing, University of South Africa, South Africa

• Dr Leon Moosavi, Director of the University of Liverpool, Singapore

• Prof Nigel South, University of Essex, UK

• Prof Sandra Walklate, University of Liverpool, UK

• Prof Richard Sparks, University of Edinburgh, UK

• Prof Robert White, University of Tasmania, Australia

• Prof Chuen-Jim Sheu (許春金), National Taipei University, Hong Kong

• Prof Eugenio R. Zaffaroni, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Dr Diego Zyman, University of Buenos Aries, Argentina

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TRANSFORMING STATE RESPONSES TO FEMINICIDE

Women’s Movements, Law and Criminal Justice Institutions in Brazil

Fiona Macaulay

University of Bradford, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

List of Tables

Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Used

Map of Brazil

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Acknowledgements

This book is dedicated to the many researchers, academics, and criminal justice system professionals across Brazil whose insights have informed this book. It is always a privilege to spend time talking to individuals who are on the front-line of making change happen and have dedicated their working lives to reducing fear and insecurity for ordinary Brazilians, especially women and girls. I am especially grateful to colleagues in the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety for their support and for their pioneering work transforming the quality of criminal justice data and of public policy on crime and violence.