¿Prevenir, atender y erradicar? Políticas públicas contra la violencia de género en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 2015 - 2017.

Abstract

This article entails an assessment of gender oriented violence
in Buenos Aires City and of current public policies
addressed at it, focusing mainly on violence against
women. In the first place we assess the magnitude of the
phenomenon; then we focus on the variety of actions
implemented by the City government and their main
institutional tools. In a third moment attention given to
specific public policies allows us to propose an interpretation
of the prevailing policy-approach conducted from the
City government. The scope of our discussion goes back
to 2015 for two main reasons: 1) the enactment, in that
year, of the National Register of Femicides, which merges
information from the judicial system as well research conducted
by NGOs dealing with violence against women;
2) The impressive massive public mobilization “Not one
woman less/Ni una menos” of June 3, that year. Our
main conclusion points to the prevalence of assistentialism

as a policy approach, which in turn we relate to restrictions
in resource endowments which prevent the implementations
of policies of greater complexity.