Early Death in the Form of Femicide: For the Right to Justice, Truth and Memory

Abstract

Sometimes death is the product of murder, such as femicide, a socially constructed death that is often tolerated or justified. This article aims to articulate sociology of death and sociology of violence to introduce gender and patriarchy as relevant notions for reflections, in Social Sciences, on death and the process of dying, seeking a structural understanding of the death produced in relationships of power that lead to femicide, as a form of early women death. As a response to the social and legal order that makes victim invisible or blames the victim, the victimological perspective presents itself as an analytical resource in defense of right to justice, truth and memory. Based on empirical studies on cases consummated feminicides judged in Comarca Londrina in the years 2021 and 2022, we demonstrate how patriarchal power, translated in objectification and contempt of girls and women, produces feminicides in contexts of domestic and family violence and how, in the judicially of formulated response, there are risks of naturalization, invisibilization and revictimization of women.