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As of 2007, a policy of militarization of public security known as "the war on drug trafficking" has been established in Mexico, which included strengthening the punitive power of the state to confront gender violence and crimes related to drug trafficking. In this context, the violent deaths of women have increased. While in 2014, there were 6 murders of women daily around the country, in 2018 and 2019, the figure rose to 10 murders daily. To try to understand this context of violence, and its link with criminal law and punitive policies, several groups of feminist researchers have developed innovative theories and investigations. The article aims to analyze the academic production of four contemporary feminist expressions, to account for their conceptions of sex and gender, their interpretive frameworks of gender violence and criminal law, the main causal factors to explain this violence, and their political proposals. Through this analysis, I hope to build bridges between various feminisms and to open new points of debate on the scope and limits of criminal law in its approach to femicide violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article I carry out a theoretical investigation, with elements of the analysissynthesis method and comparative Law, on some twenty judicial documents -- from local and federal official Mexican sources -- that deal with "hawking" (halconeo), a conduct of informal surveillance for organized crime, carried out mainly by young people. After selecting and classifying these open sources, I identify two ideas that underlie them: the delimitation of polluting spaces and the use of objects with supposed extraordinary capacities to condemn their owner. The result is that the legal figure of hawking can illustrate a way in which the Mexican institutions are turning upside down what we would consider as evident. This, in turn, supposes that ambiguity spreads from the official legal discourse about what is true or false. However, this also allows us to describe the idea of secrecy that some instances of the Mexican State have. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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