There is a marked contrast between the growing sense of insecurity among the population and the absence of consolidated statistics that would allow the phenomenon to be measured more objectively. This article seeks to make a contribution to the knowledge of the situation of citizen insecurity affecting the region, taking a comparative view based on the limited and not always reliable information available and looking at the problem from various standpoints, both social and economic. The authors begin by examining some manifestations of criminal violence in the 1990s, especially in urban areas,…
This article analyses the process whereby domestic violence in Chile became a subject of open discussion and a public issue included in the institutional agenda of the Executive and the Legislature, giving rise to preventive programmes against such violence and public services for aiding its victims, together with the adoption of a law against intra-family violence in 1994. The analysis highlights the dynamic and complex nature of the process, whose course and results were not and could not be determined a priori. Public issues do not exist in their own right, as purely objective phenomena, bu…
En este artículo se analiza el proceso mediante el cual la experiencia
de violencia doméstica llega a constituirse en Chile en
tema de debate y en un problema público que se incorpora a la
agenda institucional del Ejecutivo y del Legislativo, dando lugar
a programas de prevención y servicios públicos de atención
a la violencia y a la promulgación de una ley contra la
violencia intrafamiliar en 1994. El análisis pone de manifiesto
el carácter dinámico y complejo del proceso, cuyo curso y
resultados no estaban ni podían estar determinados a priori.
Los problemas públicos no existen por sí mismos…
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