El testimonio único de la víctima en el proceso penal desde la perspectiva de género
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The author of this paper analyses if gender perspective is useful in criminal proceedings
to asses the single victim’s testimony in order to reach a conviction. The conclusion is negative.
Gender perspective provides tools to evaluate evidence without prejudices, but in spite of the epistemic values of those tools, the uncorroborated evidence of a single witness is not sufficient, in any
case, for proof of guilt in a criminal proceeding as it cannot distort the presumption of innocence. However, the author highlights that in the pretrial investigation, gender perspective acquires a
remarkable heuristic utility, both to adequately construct the inculpatory hypotheses and to collect
evidence that will be use to corroborate the witness testimony in the future trial