Delitos de odio anti-LGTBI+. Oportunidades, límites y desafíos en el sistema penal
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Organic Law 1/2015 incorporated so-called hate crimes into the Spanish Penal Code. For LGTBI+ people, the implementation of these legal protection measures has meant an opportunity to combat discrimination, but it has also exposed some limits and challenges. In the investigation, we will present the experiences of hate crimes as narrated by LGTBI+ people and contrast them with legal and institutional resources and critical criminological perspectives. To this end, qualitative interviews have been conducted with 10 people from the LGTBI+ community and with 10 victim-care professionals. The findings show a representation of anti-LGTBI+ violence as an individualized issue disconnected from a cisheterocentric and LGTBI+-phobic structural context. They also reveal the tendency to transfer social conflicts to criminal courts instead of addressing them from alternative forms of administrative justice, such as restorative justice