Neither harassment nor institutional violence: police sexual abuse

Accustomed to denouncing harassment and institutional violence, in 2024, organised sex workers decided to file criminal charges against the city police for sexual abuse committed during body searches. This paper addresses this development and, to this end, first examines police control of prostituti...

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Autor principal: Daich, Deborah
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. UNR 2025
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Abuso sexual
violencia institucional
trabajo sexual
sexual abuse
institutional violence
sex work
Acceso en línea:https://zonafranca.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ZonaFranca/article/view/402
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spelling I15-R214-article-4022025-12-16T13:55:08Z Neither harassment nor institutional violence: police sexual abuse Las cosas por su nombre. Ni hostigamiento, ni violencia institucional: abuso sexual policial Daich, Deborah Abuso sexual violencia institucional trabajo sexual sexual abuse institutional violence sex work Accustomed to denouncing harassment and institutional violence, in 2024, organised sex workers decided to file criminal charges against the city police for sexual abuse committed during body searches. This paper addresses this development and, to this end, first examines police control of prostitution, reviews the regulations that enable intervention, and sheds light on the network of relationships that actually enable the deployment of police power (and control). Thus, it is possible to understand harassment and institutional violence as modalities inherent to the exercise of police power. Secondly, the text addresses body searches as a form of sexual violence or, to put it another way, it looks at the ways in which police harassment becomes sexual abuse. Finally, it presents some reflections on the capacity of social movements to conceptualise and politicise. For this development, I draw on fieldwork carried out during 2024, which is framed within the guidelines of feminist anthropology. Acostumbradas a denunciar el hostigamiento y la violencia institucional, durante el año 2024, las trabajadoras sexuales organizadas resolvieron, esa vez, denunciar penalmente a la policía de la Ciudad por los abusos sexuales cometidos en el marco de las requisas corporales. Así, este trabajo atiende a ese desarrollo y para ello, en primer lugar, se ocupa del control policial de la prostitución, recupera la normativa que habilita la intervención y echa luz acerca de la red de relaciones que posibilitan, en verdad, el despliegue del poder (y el control) policial. De este modo, es posible entender el hostigamiento y la violencia institucional como modalidades propias del ejercicio del poder policial. En segundo lugar, el texto aborda la requisa corporal como un modo de violencia sexual o, para decirlo de otro modo, atiende a las formas en que el hostigamiento policial deviene abuso sexual. Finalmente expone algunas reflexiones respecto de la capacidad de conceptualizar y politizar de los movimientos sociales. Para este desarrollo, me valgo del trabajo de campo realizado durante el año 2024, el que se enmarca en los lineamientos de la antropología feminista. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. UNR 2025-12-12 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://zonafranca.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ZonaFranca/article/view/402 10.35305/zf.vi33.402 Zona Franca; No. 33 (2025); 1-19 Zona Franca; Núm. 33 (2025); 1-19 Zona Franca; Núm. 33 (2025); 1-19 2545-6504 0329-8019 spa https://zonafranca.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ZonaFranca/article/view/402/421 https://zonafranca.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ZonaFranca/article/view/402/447 Derechos de autor 2025 Deborah Daich http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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topic Abuso sexual
violencia institucional
trabajo sexual
sexual abuse
institutional violence
sex work
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violencia institucional
trabajo sexual
sexual abuse
institutional violence
sex work
Daich, Deborah
Neither harassment nor institutional violence: police sexual abuse
topic_facet Abuso sexual
violencia institucional
trabajo sexual
sexual abuse
institutional violence
sex work
author Daich, Deborah
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title Neither harassment nor institutional violence: police sexual abuse
title_short Neither harassment nor institutional violence: police sexual abuse
title_full Neither harassment nor institutional violence: police sexual abuse
title_fullStr Neither harassment nor institutional violence: police sexual abuse
title_full_unstemmed Neither harassment nor institutional violence: police sexual abuse
title_sort neither harassment nor institutional violence: police sexual abuse
description Accustomed to denouncing harassment and institutional violence, in 2024, organised sex workers decided to file criminal charges against the city police for sexual abuse committed during body searches. This paper addresses this development and, to this end, first examines police control of prostitution, reviews the regulations that enable intervention, and sheds light on the network of relationships that actually enable the deployment of police power (and control). Thus, it is possible to understand harassment and institutional violence as modalities inherent to the exercise of police power. Secondly, the text addresses body searches as a form of sexual violence or, to put it another way, it looks at the ways in which police harassment becomes sexual abuse. Finally, it presents some reflections on the capacity of social movements to conceptualise and politicise. For this development, I draw on fieldwork carried out during 2024, which is framed within the guidelines of feminist anthropology.
publisher Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. UNR
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url https://zonafranca.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ZonaFranca/article/view/402
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