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Eduardo Ramon Ribas
Universidad de las Islas Baleares
Spain
Vol 33 (2013), Articles
Submitted: 03-07-2013 Accepted: 31-12-2013 Published: 20-01-2014
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The article 1 of Organic Law 1/2004 defines the gender violence demanding that the subject that the practice is a man, a woman who suffers it and who between both exists, or it has existed, a relationof affectability. In addition, the violence must be a manifestation of the discrimination, the situation of inequality and the relations of power of the men on the women. The Law specifies, therefore, the violence that to try to eradicate: is not enough the exercise of violence; this should describe effectively as of gender. There is irrelevant, on the other hand, his form of expression (physical or psychological) and, even, his entity: the Law does not exclude the violences of scanty entity; before on thecontrary, “the” crimes of violence of kind for definition typify slight violences. With it one tries to attend to the considered main needing the field of gender-based violence: to facilitate a rapid criminal intervention or, more exactly, a rapid police intervention.

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