Forensic Victimology and Femi(ni)cide A Transdisciplinary Approach on Forensic Evidence and its Contexts (Volume II)

This book, the second volume in the set, offers an in-depth, global analysis of femicide and feminicide from legal, sociological, and criminological perspectives. It addresses the lack of coverage of forensic investigation, case solvability, forensic evidence, and victimological approaches.

Volume II not only focuses on descriptive aspects of femicide and feminicide, but also tackles practical issues related to access to justice and the importance of forensic methods in solving feminicide cases. By expanding on current developments in gender-based murder, it integrates applied forensic and legal settings, adopting a victim-centered approach to explain contexts of victimization in court.

It is ideal for professionals working in legal and forensic settings towards gender-based victimization. It serves also as a handbook for students in areas related to Forensic areas such as legal and forensic medicine, criminalistics, criminology and criminal law.

part i. social and behavioral forensic investigation in femi(ni)cide.- 1. investigative and forensic interview: estandards of practice in feminicide contexts.- 2. forensic discussion and formulation: ecological-intersectional perspectives in victimology and criminology to understand feminicide.- 3. forensic psychopathological aspects of femicidal offenders: an analysis of insanity and imputability.- 4. criminal motivations in femicide.- 5. motivations for juvenile offending behaviour and femicide.- 6. criminal profiling in femicide.- 7. forensic psychological evaluation of survivors of feminicide, a dignified forensic intervention for victims.- 8. forensic victimology and context analysis: the ecological-intersectional dimensions model on the victimization context.- 9. the use of applied victimology to increase solvability for femicide.- part 2. final reflections: truth, memory and justice for victims and survivors of femi(ni)cide.- 10. truth, memory, therapeutical and social justice: towards a victimology ‘about’ victims, ‘for’ victims and ‘along with’ victims aof femi(ni)cide.

Oscar I. Cortes-Perez is a Forensic Victimologist and tertiary education professor in areas of Criminology, Victimology, and Social and Behavioral Forensic Sciences. He holds a degree in Psychology from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (Honorable Mention) and a Master’s in Forensic Sciences and Victimology from the Autonomous University of Durango Campus Zacatecas. He did internships at the Attorney General's Office of San Luis Potosi and at the Attorney General's Office of Mexico, performing forensic investigation duties.

He has worked forensic cases related to Child Sexual Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence along with the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for the Attention of Women, Family, and Sexual Crimes in San Luis Potosí. He was part of the Child and Adolescent Agenda of the Autonomous University of Yucatan and the Government of the State of Yucatan (Mexico) as a consultant expert in the strategic line “Best Practices in Justice”. Member of the Mexican Society of Criminology, and the World Society of Victimology.