Maps and georefedences of violence against women in Mexico

Abstract

In Mexico, statistical data on violence against women were considered Information of National Interest in 2005, and since then methodologies have been developed to carry out situational diagnoses on this phenomenon. The creation of relational databases and georeferenced maps of feminicides were the first to be published, and later these representations were extended to other forms of gender violence. Therefore, this work aims to analyze some maps and georeferences made in four federal entities to show the different forms of territoriality of violence against women. The methodology consisted in a comparative geostatistical review, with a gender perspective, of the maps and georeferences of the states of the State of Mexico, Nuevo León, Puebla, Zacatecas and the National Platform for Care Services for Women, Girls, Boys and Adolescents, as they are considered useful tools to make visible the variables used for the study of gender-based violence, the configuration of high-risk areas and higher incidence of crime against women. As a result and because in our country there are still no methodologies that standardize the ways of mapping and georeferencing this phenomenon, it is urgently necessary to build standardized variables and categories that allow the interconnection between different manifestations of gender violence. And so the effort made by institutions, governmental or academic organizations are important to have precise geographic and contextual information systems on the territoriality of violence against women.