Socio-Legal Aspects of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Survivors’ Victimization in Kosovo

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Socio-Legal Aspects of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Survivors’ Victimization in Kosovo

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

In Kosovo, violence against women is both a ground for and a result of socialized norms of victimization. Men socialize violent and toxic behav- ior toward women from a young age, and when they commit sexual and gender-based violence, victimizing norms are reinforced by the state structure during judicial processes, casting survivors back into the circle of maltreatment. Lack of conceptual understanding, violence relativiza- tion, and victim-blaming are components of structural violence perpe- trated by the police, prosecutors, and judges when addressing sexual and gender-based offenses. Available research suggests that the majority of femicides are preceded by domestic abuse or intimate partner violence; thus, when gender-discriminatory norms are socialized both among peo- ple and institutions, and when socio-legal impunity is the norm, survivors of sexual and gender-based violence are exposed to an in-time develop- ing spiral of violence. This spiral is determined by the constructivist rela- tion of interdependence between agents – here individual people, the sum of whom constitutes society – and the state’s structure – here the polit- ico-legal institutions of the police, prosecution, and judiciary. Agents and structure, on the one hand, continuously reinforce the socialization of various types of violence against women within society, and on the other hand, they are only the ones who can interrupt the spiral. I argue that Kosovo’s current state of affairs favors reinforcement over interruption.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Socio-Legal Aspects of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Survivors’ Victimization in Kosovo

Popis výsledku anglicky

In Kosovo, violence against women is both a ground for and a result of socialized norms of victimization. Men socialize violent and toxic behav- ior toward women from a young age, and when they commit sexual and gender-based violence, victimizing norms are reinforced by the state structure during judicial processes, casting survivors back into the circle of maltreatment. Lack of conceptual understanding, violence relativiza- tion, and victim-blaming are components of structural violence perpe- trated by the police, prosecutors, and judges when addressing sexual and gender-based offenses. Available research suggests that the majority of femicides are preceded by domestic abuse or intimate partner violence; thus, when gender-discriminatory norms are socialized both among peo- ple and institutions, and when socio-legal impunity is the norm, survivors of sexual and gender-based violence are exposed to an in-time develop- ing spiral of violence. This spiral is determined by the constructivist rela- tion of interdependence between agents – here individual people, the sum of whom constitutes society – and the state’s structure – here the polit- ico-legal institutions of the police, prosecution, and judiciary. Agents and structure, on the one hand, continuously reinforce the socialization of various types of violence against women within society, and on the other hand, they are only the ones who can interrupt the spiral. I argue that Kosovo’s current state of affairs favors reinforcement over interruption.

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J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice

ISSN

1040-2659

e-ISSN

1469-9982

Svazek periodika

34

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

140-150

Kód UT WoS článku

000769811700001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85126684425