Equality before the law, Spanish style
The punishment for a crime, subject to mitigation, should be identical where the crimes are identical, yes?
Not in Spain:
"The Constitutional Court has approved the controversial Gender Violence Law, which allows judges to impose harsher sentences on men convicted of domestic violence against their partners than a woman would face for the same crime".
Clearly the average man has greater physical strength than the average woman, but a broken nose is a broken nose is a broken nose, whether inflicted by Carmen or by Don José.
Not in Spain:
"The Constitutional Court has approved the controversial Gender Violence Law, which allows judges to impose harsher sentences on men convicted of domestic violence against their partners than a woman would face for the same crime".
Clearly the average man has greater physical strength than the average woman, but a broken nose is a broken nose is a broken nose, whether inflicted by Carmen or by Don José.
Labels: Battle of the sexes, crime and punishment, Spain
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A lot of DV is against males in Inglaterra, perhaps we are simply not as macho as our latin friends.
in one of the court cases I tried last year (as a jury member), the man was in the dock but it was common ground between the two sides that the batting opened when the woman took a metal plant-stand to his head
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