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Papeles de población
On-line version ISSN 2448-7147Print version ISSN 1405-7425
Abstract
FUENTES ROMERO, David F.; BARAJAS TINOCO, Margarita and FIGUEROA RAMIREZ, Silvia. Violence against women in an environment of social inequity: deceitful homicides in Tijuana, Baja California. Pap. poblac [online]. 2007, vol.13, n.53, pp.203-224. ISSN 2448-7147.
In this work, information corresponding to committed deceitful homicides against resident women of Tijuana Baja California is analyzed for the period 2000-2005. Besides the socioeconomic profile of both victims and murderers, the analysis is extended towards the motivation and modus operandi of the deeds. All is supported on gender theory. The used information corresponds to the database of Ph D. Romero sources, whose project title is: Social characterization of the violence in the North border of Mexico: the case of the city of Tijuana, B. C.
Keywords : Violence; social violence; deceitful homicides; women; social inequity; Tijuana; Baja California.