The trial of gender violence

The article, after offering a brief examination of the supranational sources intended to regulate the phenomenon of gender and domestic violence, seeks to provide some passages of the development of the means and methods with which the criminal process seeks to address the serious and endemic phenomenon of gender and violence against women. The Author reviews the many legislative interventions that have been adopted in recent years with the aim of highlighting how they move, on the one hand, in harmony with the ever-increasing awareness of the seriousness of such crimes, which suppress and reduce the rights and freedoms of women as such and of minors, on the other hand, with the methods and forms with which such crimes are perpetrated. The Author focuses on the importance of law no. 69 of 2019 (the so-called red code) and on the most recent amendments that increasingly tend to anticipate the protection of the victim. Over time, therefore, an atypical procedural track has been created intended to repress such crimes. A real subsystem that seems, today, to be perfected, firstly, through the various jurisprudential approaches, increasingly significant in the matter and, secondly, through the further novellas. The reference goes, in this case, to the bill that introduces the crime of femicide, currently under discussion at the 2nd Justice Commission of the Senate.  

Keywords: ; Gender violence Repression Domestic violence Women's protection Secondary victimization Child protection

Antonia Antonella Marandola, Il "processo" alla violenza di genere in "DE IUSTITIA ET IURE" 1/2025, pp 67-86, DOI: 10.3280/ius2025oa20322