How Legal Practitioners Could Treat Intimate Partner Femicide in Brazil? An Illustrative Case

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Abstract

This article summarizes conclusions derived from a trial involving the murder of a woman by her intimate partner. Judgments in trials still discriminate by applying to victims social and moral attributes based on traditional gender prejudices and out-of-date social practices.

Author

• Marcela Zamboni Lucena, Universidade Federal da Paraíba