Abstract In Latin America, homicide is a leading cause of death among women. The aim of
this paper is to examine the spatial heterogeneity of factors influencing feminicide in …

Violence against women is a complex problem that requires immediate attention in countries
such as Mexico, where the number of reports of violence continues to rise. From the …

The geography of violence in Mexico has changed in recent years because of an explosive
increase in regional homicide rates since 2006. This study relies on spatial statistical data …

Aim: This research analyzed a joint spatial distribution and explored the possible
associations between epidemiological aspects and feminicide rates, in towns of the Sergipe …

Recent literature has demonstrated that the War on Drugs policies had different
consequences for different population groups. Despite this, female homicide victimisation …

Background Femicide is a very important public health problem in Ecuador. Since regional
and country-level femicide rates can obscure significant variations at the sub-national level …

Over the past five years public security in Mexico started to become one of the first problems
for civil society and authorities. Analysts have warned that insecurity is spreading to regions …

We assess the role of inequality, poverty and drug prohibition, in explaining homicide rates
(HR) in Colombia using panel data at the municipality level between 1990 and 1998. We …

Colombia is currently the world's largest producer of coca leaf and the principal producer of
opium poppies in the Americas; the plants are the basic raw materials used to produce …

During the last fifteen years, Mexican cities along the US-Mexico border caught the attention
of the world due to their high homicide rates. In particular, the femicide problem, being an …