Criminal Law and Gender Violence: A Review for Latin America

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers studying the variables Criminal Law and Gender Violence. The bibliometric analysis proposed in this document was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during 2017-2021, identifying 19 publications at the Latin American level. The information provided by the said platform was organized using graphs and figures, categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, the position of different authors on the proposed topic was referenced through qualitative analysis. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Brazil, with 9 publications, was the country with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions of that country. The area of knowledge that made the most significant contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of Criminal Law and Gender Violence was Social Sciences, with 11 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the period mentioned above was the journal article, which represents 84% of the total scientific production.