Society, Her or Me? An Explanatory Model of Intimate Femicide Among Male Perpetrators in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Marco, Martín Hernán Di; Evans, Dabney P.

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“…Our findings seem to corroborate the reports of Di Marco and Evans (2020), which analyzed narratives of femicide, reporting that speeches of perpetrators are shaped by sociocultural elements in which the idea that hegemonic masculinity (i.e., attitudes that support male dominance) endorses and naturalizes beliefs and attitudes, mostly prevails. Thus, the intimate partner is seen as a mere object that, if they cannot belong to the perpetrator, will not belong to anyone else.…”

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“If not Mine, She Won't Belong to Another”: Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement in a Femicide Perpetrator from Brazil

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Violence Against Women

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Case files can show how aggressors use different explanations to reduce the seriousness of their crime. We aimed to identify and categorize a 2016 Brazilian case file from a perpetrator of femicide, based on moral disengagement theory. Content analysis yielded 47 verbalized excerpts, with 70 disengagement occurrences. The most frequently used mechanisms throughout the aggressor's speeches consisted of moral justification and blaming the victim herself. Results indicated that he reduced the seriousness of the femicide and sought reduction of the consequences. We discuss how speeches in criminal cases can serve as a secondary source for producing data on violence.

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“If not Mine, She Won't Belong to Another”: Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement in a Femicide Perpetrator from Brazil

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Bonfá-Araujo

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Violence Against Women

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“…The fact that he uses a biomedical label ("violent personality") illustrates how certain medicalizing discourses shape the stories and accounts of these men. While not all of the participants used expert theories and terms to make sense of their actions, the presence of psychological categories shows the presence of dominant theories in penal devices, as has been found by other studies(Di Marco and Evans 2020;Di Marco 2022).…”

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“…I was like a car out of control, spinning out of control…" References to being "locked up" [caer preso] as a turning point and, simultaneously, a biographical opportunity were frequent in the life stories of young men from marginalized areas. These narratives were more frequent amongst those men who used redemption narratives (Ferrito et al 2012;Liem and Richardson 2014;Di Marco and Evans 2020). Expressions like, "I had the chance to be locked up," "it was the best thing that could have happened to me," and "it was the only thing that put me back on track" not only refer to changes in their social contexts, resources, and potential pathways but also their worldviews.…”

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“…Alternatively, other studies have shown that violent deaths are normalized and not seen as a major life event, depending on their life courses and socialization contexts (Liles 2018), that the relevance given to the crime varies according to the perpetrators' worldviews (Birkbeck 2020;, and that homicide can be presented-in the context of a research interview-as an irrelevant event (Birkbeck 2020). The justifications and neutralization strategies used by offenders (Rodríguez 2020) and the use of prevailing narratives to account for the crime (Presser 2008;Di Marco and Evans 2020) have been recent strategies to analyze the sense-making of homicide.…”

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Is Homicide a Turning Point in the Life of Perpetrators? A Narrative Analysis of the Life Stories of Marginalized and Middle-Class Male Homicide Offenders in Metropolitan Buenos Aires, Argentina

Marco

2022

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This paper aims to analyze the relevance given to violent deaths and imprisonment by male homicide perpetrators in their biographical reconstructions. Drawing on narrative criminology, this study examines the offenders’ emic terms, rationalities, and stories. The analysis is based on seventy-three purposefully selected narrative-biographical interviews and field observations in prisons and homes of former convicts (2016-2020) in Metropolitan Buenos Aires, Argentina. The corpus was analyzed following an inductive thematic coding strategy using ATLAS.ti. Three central narratives about homicide and incarceration emerged: “opportunity,” “rock bottom,” and “disruptive.” For most, homicide was described as a biographical opportunity to rethink their lives, pursue new pathways, and “stabilize” a previously uncontrolled lifestyle. However, homicides perpetrated by respondents with higher socioeconomic status were disruptive events. Participants used stoic rationality—the positive appraisal of painful experiences—to structure their sense-making and stories of violence. This rationality permeated perpetrators’ presentations of themselves, their turning points and lived experiences, and the violence performed and suffered. This paper grapples with the widespread assumption that homicide is a radical change in the lives of offenders and questions the universal meaning of violent death. Performing violence is not only neutralized but is also seen as an expected and inaugural event in life stories, dependent on the worldviews of the social actors.

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“…A growing body of work in criminology focuses on the narratives developed by offenders and victims to describe their experiences (PRESSER and SANDBERG, 2015a). This "narrative criminology" has explored narratives of homicide, including the accounts within them, with a view to understanding the construction of meanings and the explanations given by murderers (see, for example, BROOKMAN, 2013;DILMON and TIMOR, 2014;DI MARCO and EVANS, 2020;HENSON and OLSON, 2010;PETTIGREW, 2020;PRESSER, 2004). However, few studies have looked at the functioning of these explanations within the structure of the narrative as modelled by Labov and Waletzky (1997).…”

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You and Your Laws and Us With Our Laws : A Murderer s Stories Navigate Conflicting Normative Domains

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Rodríguez²

2021

Dilemas, Rev. Estud. Conflito Controle Soc.

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em 'Vocês com as suas leis e nós com as nossas': Histórias de um assassino que atravessam domínios normativos conflitantes examinamos uma entrevista com um assassino na Venezuela e comparamos duas histórias ali narradas: uma sobre o assassinato e outra sobre a sua vida familiar. Embora a maior parte da primeira dissesse respeito ao homicídio, invocando valores e normas ligadas à subcultura criminosa, nela também se avaliou o crime a partir da perspectiva de um enquadramento convencional que reconhecia a importância da família. A segunda história, ambientada nesse mesmo quadro familiar, revela um conflito entre diferentes exigências normativas postas ao assassino. Ele resolveu-o dando finalmente primazia a seus valores e identidade subculturais. Employing Labov's structural model of stories and Schönbach's typology of accounts, we examine an interview with a murderer in Venezuela and compare two stories that were narrated within it: one about the murder and one about his family life. While most of the first story accounted for the murder by calling on values and norms that attach to the criminal subculture, it also evaluated the crime from the perspective of a conventional framework that recognized the importance of family. The second story was set within that same family framework, revealing a conflict between different normative demands made on the murderer. He resolved it by finally giving primacy to his subcultural values and identity.

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Society, Her or Me? An Explanatory Model of Intimate Femicide Among Male Perpetrators in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Cited by 13 publications

References 59 publications

“If not Mine, She Won't Belong to Another”: Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement in a Femicide Perpetrator from Brazil

“If not Mine, She Won't Belong to Another”: Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement in a Femicide Perpetrator from Brazil

Is Homicide a Turning Point in the Life of Perpetrators? A Narrative Analysis of the Life Stories of Marginalized and Middle-Class Male Homicide Offenders in Metropolitan Buenos Aires, Argentina

You and Your Laws and Us With Our Laws : A Murderer s Stories Navigate Conflicting Normative Domains

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