Sexual Homicide of Women on the U.S.-Mexican Border

ISBN-13: 9789402409376 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 166 str.

Sara Schatz

Opis

This volume focuses on the specific relationship between the institutional impunity, lack of public safety and public space in failing to prevent organized sexual murder. The murder of women on the U.S.-Mexican border is a complex phenomenon with multiple geographic, economic, political, sociological, and psychological causes.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Impunity & Sexual Assassination in Ciudad Juárez: Exclusion, Cruising, Collusion.- Chapter 2. "Dangerous Streets": Sexual Assassination, Impunity & Industrial Zones in Ciudad Juárez.- Chapter 3. Chapter 3: Disappearances as Forced Abductions in Ciudad Juárez.- Chapter 4. Conclusion.

O autorze

Sara Schatz is a criminology expert currently affiliated with Ohio State University, as an assistant professor for Latin American Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at UCLA, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from UC Berkeley, and an M.A. in International Development from UCLA. Her research specializes in the political and legal situation in Mexico.