Abstract

SILVA GARCIA, Germán  and  AVILA CANO, Vannia. Penal control and gender: Baracunátana: an elegy to power on female rebellion. Rev. Crim. [online]. 2022, vol.64, n.2, pp.23-33.  Epub Feb 08, 2023. ISSN 1794-3108.  https://doi.org/10.47741/17943108.352.

This article focuses on the lyrics of the popular song “Baracunátana” to describe and analyze the machista culture in gender relations. The story narrated in the song, with its machista framework, at a micro-social level, is the starting point for an exploration of gender conflicts. The article then examines the macro-social consequences of macho culture and, in particular, its influence on gender violence. These micro and macro issues are the basis for a critical review of the main policies and criminal control actions developed to combat violence in gender relations in the Colombian legal system.

As a result, several critical nodes are identified that neutralize and impede an adequate management of this ascending type of violence. This allows demonstrating that criminal policies have derived, with worrying ineffectiveness, despite the sensationalism and political hullabaloo they make, in an ineffective criminal populism. In contrast, the article proposes to give priority to the development of social policies against machismo, whose objective would be to affect the dispositions of power, because the problem of Baracunátana is not one of love or jealousy, it is a question of power.

Keywords : Cultural factors; sexism; gender roles; gender differences; criminology; sociology of law.

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