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Abstract

This article presents a brief analysis of the classification of feminicide figure in several Latin American countries –particularly in Argentina– examining the origin and the theoretical and political development of these concepts, as well as major connecting existing features and the differences in the new figures criminal of the continent. The complexity and diversity of criminal types, and their relationship to existing figures are challenges to law enforcement these. The introduction of such elements: such as gender, misogyny, hatred, generates resistances and judicial difficulties interpretation, leading to elaborations jurisprudential understanding which does not contributing in the comprehension on the issue of violence against women. Thus, the application of new these figures mostly in the femicides intimate the couple, whose description is simpler, but also stereotypes persist them, damning included in sentences that implicitly blame women themselves that violence have suffered.