When conducting the study, the team of researchers selected all rape cases in which adult women were the victims, heard in Spain's provincial courts between 20. The conclusions are clear: when the rapist is the victim's partner or ex-partner, "there are fewer convictions, the punishments are milder, and the compensation amounts are lower," according to the professor, who is also a researcher in the VICRIM (Empirical and applied victimology) group in the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the UOC.įewer convictions and one year less in prison It examines nearly a thousand rulings on cases of rape in which the victims were adult women, which were handed down by Spain's provincial courts between 20. The study is titled "How Criminal Is It to Rape a Partner According to the Justice System? Analysis of Sentences in Spain (2015-2022)," and has been published in the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research.
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These rapes are usually subject to less attention, and they tend to be "perceived as something less serious." So says Josep Maria Tamarit Sumalla, a full professor of Criminal Law at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and the lead author of a pioneering study in Spain which concludes that Spanish courts hand down milder punishments for rapes when they are committed by the victim's partner or ex-partner.
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