Regueira Diéguez, AntíaPérez Rivas, NataliaOrdóñez Mayán, LucíaGuinarte Cabada, GumersindoMuñoz Barús, José IgnacioConcheiro Carro, LuisVázquez-Portomeñe Seijas, FernandoRodríguez Calvo, María Sol2024-04-242024-04-242012http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33646Regueira Diéguez, Antía / Pérez Rivas, Natalia / Ordóñez Mayán, Lucía / Guinarte Cabada, Gumersindo / Muñoz Barús, José Ignacio / Concheiro Carro, Luis / Vázquez-Portomeñe Seijas, Fernando / Rodríguez Calvo, María Sol (2012): “Prosecution of violence against women: medico-legal and criminal aspects”. 12th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Universidad de País Vasco, 12-15 september 2012 [Póster]The main objective of this poster is to analyze different aspects the prosecution of violence against women. As part of this task we examine the victim´s testimony overall role as well as the incidence of alcohol abuse. Different studies have found an escalation of violence after separation or divorce. Another goal of the study is to validate this thesis by assessing the characteristics of the relationship between aggressors and victims. The poster also attempts to measure the prevalence of recidivism and to answer the question whether the lack of medico-legal documentation is ever a problem in prosecuting gendered violence, by examining the quality and extension of the information provided by the injuries medical report included in the files. The data used comes from the Files classified as Gender Violence from the Prosecutor office of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, NW Spain). A descriptive statistical analysis was carried out with the statistical package SPSS.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Gender violenceMedico-legal documentationCriminal aspectsProsecutionconference outputopen access