Institutional violence against women in Northwest Mexico

Abstract

The article examines the existing regulatory framework for addressing violence against women in Mexico, both nationally and at the level of the four states that make up the geographic area where the research was conducted. In this paper we present some of the manifestations of communal violence, labor and feminicida and emphasis is placed on how these overlap and harnessed by the institutional violence, for which echoes the voices of experts on the subject of violence. The results reveal how institutional practices revictimize and violate to the women. In spite of the advances in legal matters, we do not yet have the sociocultural conditions to ensure that women were able to exercise their rights and a life free of violence.