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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Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. UNR
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://zonafranca.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ZonaFranca/article/view/402 |
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| Sumario: | 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. |
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