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Er young age, and Cristina because of her identity as an upperclass, ladina lady. In contrast, the victimblaming of Gia's mother and Alejandra Icdemonstrate the double bind of women's survival tactics in contexts of abuse. Those who flee violent relationships are accused of abandonment and those who stay in violent relationships are blamed for the abuse they suffer. In sum, media SenGupta (2020); SenGupta et al. (2019); Shoshi and SenGupta (2021); Wilson et al. (2019), S coverage and digital commentary about these highprofile femicides reveal some indicators that VAWG is being noticed as a matter of public concern and that some journalists are beginning to connect acts of VAWG to social and institutional structures.Laws 2021, 10,22 ofYet, troubling trends continue, like the tendency to divide victims into innocent and blameworthy victims, to view perpetrators as aberrant monsters, and to market sensationalized accounts of genderbased violence. What is much more, weaknesses inside the criminal justice method became central elements in each and every casenot only undermining the progress of individual cases, but also drawing media and public attention toward critiques of criminal justice officials and institutions and away from reflections on the causes of VAWG. 6.three. HighProfile Femicides and Trust in Institutions As noted above, highprofile situations brought to light weaknesses inside the criminal justice response to genderbased violence in Guatemala, principal amongst them: corruption and classism inside the criminal justice technique; officials that are unresponsive to reports of nonlethal VAWG; weak investigations and prosecutions; inordinate legal delays; and in some cases, uncommitted specialized officials. Some of these weaknesses were broadly recognized, even though other folks have been contested or overlooked in news accounts and digital commentary. Journalists covering the legal processes related with the Siekavizza case connected it with corruption in the criminal justice method (13 of news articles). Those covering the Gia Karlotta and Alejandra Iccase more usually highlighted ineptitude and breaches of duty among officials inside the criminal justice system (16 and 23 of news articles, respectively). Only some focused on state actors' failure to interrupt the cycles of violence preceding femicide, even when females attempted to file reports against those who would go on to commit femicide. The media focus on weaknesses within the criminal justice system was echoed in digital commentary, most likely simply because this Verified CeD ranged from 0.0 0 (0.0 ) 2 (1.1 ) 4 (0.five ) four (1.4 ) 2 (two.eight ) 4 (3.5 ) to three.5 inside the consecutive screening group and concentrate match daily Guatemalans' preexisting perceptions. On line critiques were especially centered on a common sense of corruption (in the Cristina Siekavizza case) or the shortcomings of judges (within the Gia Karlotta and Alejandra Iccases). The public's distrust in the criminal justice method was also apparent in digital commentary that concentrated on how perpetrators must be punished. To a far greater extent than with all the other two cases, the digital commentary surrounding the Gia Karlotta case expressed an intense "will to punish" (Fassin 2018), likely because the victim's age meant she greatest match the innocent victim trope. 53 of the digital commentary surrounding the Gia Karlotta case focused on how the culprit should be punished, even though equivalent comments accounted for only 4 and 12 in the commentary surrounding the Cristina Siekavizza and Alejandra Iccases, respectively. Prevalent recommendations for the death penalty, torture, or extrajudicial lynching all reflected a sense amongst Guatemalans that the criminal justice method was incapable or unwilling to adequately hol.