Daniela Aguirre, Dr. Samantha Acuña, & Dr. Tiina Itkonen
In Mexico the violence towards women is monumental, every year about 2,600 women are victims of Feminicide, the highes causator of all abuses stem from communal places with the second being within relationships. I will unlayer, tracing back and finding correlations of how this problem boiled up (using both concurrent satistics, and various individual case studies embodying the entire topic). I will show the evidence on how corroded, and implicitly biased the judicial and criminal justice system is in Mexico. I will specifically present reccomended policy proposals, for how the justice system can appropriately address these abuses, and how the community as a whole can stop attacks towards women from escalaing. I will delve into how investigative authorities mishandled cases and in what places these problems are hapening more, and societal norms, such as distrust or disencouraged towards police/authorities…where people stay silent because of the insecurity. And i will try to narrow down why it is happening so much to suggest policy proposals to uproot the cancer and the provokers of it. There is so much evidence and research i am using to back up my claim (like the female feminkcide victim Mariana Lima buendia, whose husband unalived her and since he was a forscenic investigator in the government he had a ugly foot into deciding how her case was handled, he canceled it and messed up the investigation, all while Mariana’s family claimed him the suspect since Mariana spoke of his abususes) (how only protective laws came into place after the families had to fight for the female victims, like in 2010 the grandparent had to fight for the custody of the grandchild to not end up with the dad who commited the killing) that will give you a vivid eyewitness documentation of going into countries without much freedom of speech, and how deeply embedded with pain and fear the lives of families and girls are in Mexico.