Risk Factors Associated with Domestic Violence and Homicidal Violence of Women: The Case of Yucatan, Mexico

Yolanda Oliva Peña,Manuel Ordóñez Luna,Gerardo García Gil,Andrés Santana Carvajal,Ricardo Ojeda Rodríguez,Guadalupe Andueza Pech,Jolly Hoil Santos,Elsa María Rodríguez Angulo

doi:10.4236/psych.2016.71008

Abstract

The manuscript presents results of research conducted with the aim of analyzing the association of geographic areas and risk factors of violence to women occurred in the state of Yucatan during 1997-2014, by reviewing statistics and other sources. Variables domestic violence, sex crimes and homicides and femicides association and risk according to the degree of marginalization, town size and percentage of population analyzed Maya. The main findings of the research show the presence of violence in 49 of the 106 municipalities. Association found the urban condition in cases of domestic violence, sexual offenses, homicide, and femicide, while for domestic violence it was obtained that the condition of Maya speakers is a risk factor. The geospatial distribution shows areas of high violence mostly in the south and east of the state. Some municipalities’ rates for homicide and domestic violence, are higher compared to the national and state average rates recorded. It is concluded that information management has been the key to catalog the state as low gender violence and that the results presented here show the presence of large geographical areas of high risk for the lives of women, which requires your attention of intersectoral public policy.

Highlights

Mexico has gone through changes in living conditions since 2009, with significant growth of cases of homicidalHow to cite this paper: Peña, Y
The geographic analysis in this study shows that the rate of male and female homicides are virtually the same states that have the highest and the lowest rates; Among women, the distance between the ends is slightly smaller than in the case of men, a woman of Chihuahua—located state where the infamous Juarez—has almost 23 times more likely to be murdered than a Yucatan
The risk starts at 15 and is deepened from 25 to 34, matching data reported by the (INEGI, 2011) regarding exposure to violence in the range of 30 - 39 years (Corral, 2009) in his study of murders of women with the highest percentage between 30 and 35, since their study reports that the former couple rapes and kills women

Summary

Introduction

Mexico has gone through changes in living conditions since 2009, with significant growth of cases of homicidal. Corsi (2002) refers to gender violence as the whole way in which you try to perpetuate the system of hierarchies imposed by the patriarchal culture; It takes many forms, both in the public sphere and in private contexts, for example, forms of discrimination against women in various levels (political, institutional, labor), sexual harassment, rape, trafficking women for prostitution, the female body as an object of consumption, segregation based on religious ideas and, all forms of abuse physical, psychological, social, sexual suffering in any context, and which cause damage scale that can culminate in death (2002) In this regard, Lagarde (2011) is a review of the violence against women and that this phenomenon has transcended the borders of Mexico because the organizations supporting families of the victims have turned to international bodies for pronouncement and denunciation. In this paper we answer the question “What risk factors are significantly associated with gender violence in the state?”

Material and Methods

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Results

Killings of Woman

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Discussion and Conclusion