Infanticidio: perspectiva comparada y aportes bibliográficos de Europa y América Latina. (Mérida, Venezuela 1811-1851)

Abstract

This paper presents a literature review on the Honoris Causa in Europe and Latin America, making a comparison of the phenomenon, while evaluating the treatment of the subject in both continents. Similarly, intends to translate a list of the cases studied infanticide perpetrated in Merida, Venezuela during the first half of the nineteenth century in order to see if the honor, a code of behavior, was present in them, how established, evaluated and judged, determining in many cases the final judgment. He craves therefore, establish similarities and differences presenting an analysis to see this crime as a crime involving ambivalent violence, fear and honor.