We explore how formal mandates associated with Guatemala's 2008 ‘Law against Femicide and Other Forms of Violence against Women’ and with specialised violence against women (VAW) courts have encountered significant challenges due to state-imposed constraints. Drawing on courtroom observations, analyses of case files, and interviews, we find that while formal mandates incorporated feminist understandings of violence against women, which were often internalised among court officials, in daily practice specialised courts reproduced tendencies to depict violence as interpersonal, fragment people's experiences and enact narrow forms of justice that do not incorporate the full intent of the 2008 VAW Law and institutions intended to support it. This case study thus illuminates how and why legal solutions alone are not sufficient to reduce gender-based violence and feminicide, particularly in the face of uneven and openly hostile challenges posed by governments.

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从立法到危地马拉暴力侵害妇女法庭的日常实践

我们探讨了与危地马拉 2008 年“禁止杀害女性和其他形式的暴力侵害妇女行为法”以及专门的暴力侵害妇女行为 (VAW) 法院相关的正式授权如何因国家施加的限制而遇到重大挑战。根据法庭观察、案件档案分析和访谈，我们发现，虽然正式授权纳入了女权主义对暴力侵害妇女行为的理解，这些理解通常在法院官员中被内化，但在日常实践中，专门法院再现了将暴力描述为人际、碎片化人们的倾向。经验和制定不包含 2008 年 VAW 法和旨在支持它的机构的全部意图的狭隘形式的正义。