reported crime has increased citywide by 50 per cent from 2013-2016.
Basis,...one of the biggest local advocates of decriminalisation, argues that those numbers are encouraging, because many of those crimes might not have been reported previously.
I don't understand this - I read this as an increase in overall crime citywide. This, to me, reads like they've created a zone of conducive context that permits criminal activity to increase around it and its malign impact is spreading.
Not all conducive contexts fit this model, however, there are a number where the usual hierarchies of gender are in flux, jeopardy or transition. Here conflict, dislocation and migration constitute contexts in which the vulnerability of women and girls is accentuated by external conditions over which they have little if any control.
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Jackie Turner (2013) has developed this analytical frame with respect to trafficking, noting that in international human rights thinking women’s vulnerability derives from their subordinate status in gender orders (Connell, 2009). They are, in turn, disproportionately affected by conflict, economic crises and the deepened inequalities heralded by globalisation. At the same time women migrants have fewer options for legal migration and are thus more reliant on the irregular routes controlled by smugglers and traffickers.
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In some sexual violence is authorised from the top, in others it becomes part of the ‘repertoires of violence’ of smaller groups of men and here the reach of military and state control, and whether there is a sense of impunity, play a role in determining in which conflicts and which locations sexual violence becomes embedded.
discoversociety.org/2016/03/01/theorising-violence-against-women-and-girls/
A zone of lawlessness and abuse spills out to create that context elsewhere.