Autor según el artículo: Villacampa C; Torres N
Departamento: Dret Públic
Autor/es de la URV: Torres Rosell, Núria
Palabras clave: Victims Support organizations Forced marriage Criminalization Consent
Resumen: © 2019, Springer Nature B.V. Forced marriages were criminalized in Spain in 2015, both as a specific form of coercion (offence against liberty) and as a type of human trafficking. However, the criminalisation was carried out with limited data on existing cases and without empirical research questioning whether forced marriages were taking place in Spain and what specific individuals were at risk. This paper presents the main findings of an empirical study aimed at detecting the existence of victims of forced marriage in this country and at describing the dynamics and characteristics of the processes which led to their victimisation. A total of 150 support organizations operating in Spain reported their knowledge of the extent and dynamics of forced marriages, revealing the existence of people forced to marry against their will, including some legal residents and even Spanish nationals. The research identifies at least 57 victims who have received assistance from support organizations. People most at risk were very young women, usually from North African, Sub Saharan African or Central Asian, as well as, to a lesser extent, Roma, and with a large percentage of Spanish nationals and legal residents. Mechanisms used to compel the victims are usually subtle, far from those more incisive active means required in the Spanish legislation. The results contribute to the debate on what is tolerable in today’s globalized society and underscore the need to understand this reality before regulating it.
Áreas temáticas: Sociología Social sciences, interdisciplinary Social sciences (miscellaneous) Social sciences (all) Saúde coletiva Pathology and forensic medicine Law Interdisciplinar General social sciences Dret Criminology & penology Ciencias sociales
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 09254994
Direcció de correo del autor: nuria.torres@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-2893-1267
Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-01-13
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10611-019-09881-2
URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Crime Law And Social Change. 73 (5): 509-529
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Villacampa C; Torres N (2020). Prevalence, dynamics and characteristics of forced marriage in Spain. Crime Law And Social Change, 73(5), 509-529. DOI: 10.1007/s10611-019-09881-2
DOI del artículo: 10.1007/s10611-019-09881-2
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2020
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
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