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Symposium: “Law, Economics and Public Policies”

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016): Brazilian Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Violence against women as an economic issue: making sense of a fragmented field

DOI
https://doi.org/10.19092/reed.v3i2.125
Submitted
July 31, 2016
Published
2016-08-01

Abstract

Violence against women has been a recurring theme of analysis since the 1970’s. This conceptualization has evolved over time. Initially, the efforts were directed to define, prosecute and punish the crime. Then, the problem was understood as a public health one. More recently, the economic consequences of violence and discrimination against women has become central. The article starts out by relating international discussions about the relationship between gender and development and the rising prevalence of violence against women as an economic issue. The second part draws a picture of how this debate has permeated the Colombian context. This local narrative presents an example of what this article proposes: a critical analysis of the recent trends to understand violence as an access to the market issue, as well as the observation that the problem is not one of lack of regulation, but of fragmentation and overflow of institutions and policies aimed at attacking this problem.

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