Reinventing Infanticide for a Global Age: Gender, Race, Class, and Nationality in Infanticide Prosecutions in Venezuela

重塑全球化时代的杀婴行为：委内瑞拉杀婴诉讼中的性别、种族、阶级和国籍

• 批准号: 9986150
• 负责人: Charles Briggs
• 金额: $ 15.73万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-06-01 至 2003-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9986150&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Reinventing; Infanticide; Global; Age; Gender

This research is concerned with the way infanticide and related crimes are prosecuted in Venezuela because the criminal processing of these cases, appropriately analyzed, can yield insight on important themes in law. Preliminary research in Delta Amacuro State in the eastern part of the country and in the capital, Caracas, suggests that both prosecution and defense arguments as well as media accounts focus on issues relating to social inequality. In Delta Amacuro, where the racial distinction between "indigenous persons" and "criollos" (meaning "non-indigenous persons" or members of the "national society") structures all aspects of life, race lies at the heart of legal arguments when defendants are classified as "indigenous." In Caracas, on the other hand, poverty and immigration are much more pressing social issues; thus, when women are tried for infanticide in the capital they are often depicted as products of an "environment of violence" and "social disorganization," thereby reproducing dominant images of life in poor hillside "barrios" and of ignorant, unruly immigrants.The research conducted to date has enabled the PI to generate a number of hypotheses regarding the conduct of infanticide trials in Venezuela and their relationship to broader legal, social, political, and economic processes. A central hypothesis is that the content of case discussion has changed, from individual psychopathology, to emphasis on structural issues related to social inequality. A research team that includes four advanced students will work in a range of sites around the country for three months in the summer of 2000. The data collected will then be analyzed using discourse analytic techniques designed to test the research hypotheses generated in the preliminary study.

这项研究关注的是委内瑞拉对种族灭绝和相关罪行的起诉方式，因为对这些案件的刑事处理，经过适当分析，可以深入了解法律中的重要主题。在该国东部的三角洲阿马库罗州和首都加拉加斯进行的初步研究表明，检方和辩方的论点以及媒体报道都集中在与社会不平等有关的问题上。在Delta Amacuro，"土著人"和"criollos"（意为"非土著人"或"民族社会"成员）之间的种族区别构成了生活的所有方面，当被告被列为"土著人"时，种族是法律的论点的核心。"另一方面，在加拉加斯，贫困和移民是更为紧迫的社会问题;因此，当妇女在首都因杀害妇女而受到审判时，她们往往被描述为"暴力环境"和"社会混乱"的产物，从而再现了贫穷的山坡"贫民区"生活和无知的主要形象，迄今为止进行的研究使PI能够就委内瑞拉的种族灭绝审判及其与更广泛的法律的、社会、政治和经济进程的关系提出一些假设。 一个中心假设是，个案讨论的内容已经发生了变化，从个人精神病理学，强调与社会不平等有关的结构性问题。 2000年夏天，一个包括四名高级学生的研究小组将在全国各地的一系列地点工作三个月。 收集的数据将使用话语分析技术进行分析，旨在验证初步研究中产生的研究假设。