Gender-based Violence and Law in Action

The legal field or the legal subsystem, understood as an aggregation between individuals and a coordinated set of relationships, actions or communications, is characterized by a certain degree of stability: the reference to the structuring of the relationships of the legal system in terms of stability does not necessarily imply a position predetermined regarding the degree of cooperation or conflict of the legal actors. The condition of sociable unsociability of man induces legal actors to relate in a conflictual and/or cooperative manner depending on the conditions and needs of the context in which they operate, the characteristics of the law, the interests and objectives pursued, all aspects capable of have a profound impact on the phenomenon of gender-based violence in terms of not only providing the necessary remedies to resolve it, but also to prevent it from worsening further.