Abstract

GAMBETTA, Victoria; FONSECA, Agustina  and  RUSSO, Cecilia. Protection orders as a means to combat intimate partner violence against women: principles, legal framework and issuance in Uruguay. Rev. Derecho [online]. 2021, n.24, pp.5-31.  Epub Dec 01, 2021. ISSN 1510-3714.  https://doi.org/10.22235/rd24.2554.

The aim of this article is to introduce protection orders as the main legal instrument to prevent the revictimization of women who have suffered intimate partner violence. For that purpose, it begins describing the legal recognition process of violence against women in Latin America and the Caribean, and introduces feminist scholar’s contributions. It continues outlining the expected benefits in which the application of protection orders as a means to prevent women’s revictimization are globally sustained. Then, it describes how these principles have been incorporated into the Southern Cone legislation. Finally, it provides a detailed description of protective orders nature in Uruguay, under the legal denomination of precautionary measures (strict definition); and addresses the institutional circuit that each case of intimate partner violence towards women completes from the domestic violence report to the follow up process performed by the police.

Keywords : protection orders; violence against women; intimate partner violence; revictimization.

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