Dimensión social y jurídica del feminicidio en el municipio de Ciudad Juárez, Chih., México.

Abstract

Femicide is an embedded problem in the urban area of Juarez, Chihuahua since the beginning of the 1990s decade. This paper adopts the feminist perspective and the categories proposed by both author Julia Monarrez and legal sociology. The aim is to update the victims’ sociodemographic profile and, subsequently, to identify whether Monarrez's categories have been incorporated into the legal dimension when addressing the problem. A qualitative-descriptive methodology is conducted using as empirical evidence the 2239 cases’ Femicide Database for the period 1993 to 2021. Also, a contrasting analysis between the social reality of the phenomenon and its integration into the legal dimension is developed by a documentary type methodology. In conclusion, there is a gap between the two scopes since Chihuahua is the last state in Mexico to include the criminal offense of femicide into its penal code, despite the state's three-decade record of femicide cases.