Forensic Victimology and Feminicide : A Transdisciplinary Approach on Forensic Evidence and Its Contexts

This handbook of forensic victimology focuses on femi(ni)cide contexts, offering instructional tools for legal and forensic investigation from a transdisciplinary perspective. Drawing from cross-national experiences, particularly in Australia and Mexico, it provides essential resources for identifying, investigating, analyzing, interpreting, and understanding lethal gender-based victimization through physical forensic evidence.

Spanning ten chapters, the book illustrates and develops standards of professional practice from the initial victimization report through specialized procedures, including crime scene processing, medical evidence collection, and entomology. It establishes the functionality and relevance of each stage of forensic investigation, alongside theoretical and legal considerations regarding various femicide contexts, such as intimate partner femicide, femicide-suicide, and child femicide. Additionally, it discusses due diligence standards in forensic investigation and legal considerations to avoid unlawful evidence.

Ideal for professionals in legal and forensic fields addressing gender-based victimization, this volume also serves as a handbook for students in forensic-related areas such as legal and forensic medicine, criminalistics, criminology, and criminal law.

Oscar I. Cortes-Perez is a Forensic Victimologist and tertiary education professor in areas of Criminology, Victimology, and Social and Behavioral Forensic Sciences. He holds a degree in Psychology from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (Honorable Mention) and a Master’s in Forensic Sciences and Victimology from the Autonomous University of Durango Campus Zacatecas. He did internships at the Attorney General's Office of San Luis Potosi and at the Attorney General's Office of Mexico, performing forensic investigation duties.

He has worked forensic cases related to Child Sexual Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence along with the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for the Attention of Women, Family, and Sexual Crimes in San Luis Potosí. He was part of the Child and Adolescent Agenda of the Autonomous University of Yucatan and the Government of the State of Yucatan (Mexico) as a consultant expert in the strategic line “Best Practices in Justice”. Member of the Mexican Society of Criminology, and the World Society of Victimology.