4/7 crime and punishment

Femicide targeting of women, simply because theyre women

Threatening sense of autonomy
Single women
Employed women
Working class/poverty economics
Borderlands area between US and Mexico
Violation of womens civil, legal, and human rights
Largely in Mexico and Guatemala
Rape, torcher, overkill (deforming corpse)
History of exploitation and corruption
West united states and Europe
Racial class and gender discriminations
Impunity in Mexico people not held accountable for crimes
Gender violence outlet for frustration instead of fighting politically
State sponsored violence not hesitant to release its forces on its own people
Invited Texas Rangers to attack mine strikers
1958-9 railroad strikes in Mexico
Military and police attack strikers
1968 students protest govt
Corruption, not involved
Military sent to kill them 100s killed
Rape used as weapon in war
1849 women kills man who tried to rape her
Woman lynched

Never got first name right or bothered to learn last name

White males favorited
Historic gender violence
1889 penal code
Domestic violence is a crime
Crime must be sever for man to be punished
Only 2% convicted
2005 only 1 suspect convicted
Deal with it themselves lynching
Legal departments ineffective
Fugitive law authorities can kill if someone tries to escape used as excuse
Officials manipulate crime scenes, do not proceed investigations, corrupt
Killing of youths because they are youths
Not law abiding states
No political power to carry out
No running water or electricity most victims
Broader violence victims domestic, drug, state
Victims of violence often ignored
Drug trafficking, human trafficking, Femicide
Official complicity
Elected officials have close ties with organized crime
Failed basic roles of protecting citizens and maintaining laws
Causes
Economics
Women go off on own
Capitalization/dehumanizing everyone
Easy to ignore violence

Patriarchy
Autonomy
Ostracized women
US takes advantage of the poor people
Informal economy prostitution, drugs, human trafficking becomes intertwined
with formal economy
Criminal organizations become more powerful
Maquiladoras underdeveloped factories
84% all Mexican exports go to US
US benefits more than Mexico asymmetrical
US direct relationship with Mexican poverty
Public and private Femicide
Rapid industrialization and modernization
Increasing disparity of wealth
Less rich, more poor
Increasing population
More women must go to work to support family
Increase mobility
Increase independence
Seen no longer as pure women
Put in danger
More vulnerable
Whites own companies, colored poor generalization but race plays factor
Impunity lack of convictions
Likelihood of being convicted is very low
Can commit crimes without being held accountable
Little fear of being convicted
More likely to commit acts of domestic violence
No punishment, no worsening of reputation
Legal and social impunity
Does not deter crime

Feminicide relate state/govt to crime

State complicity of crime
Murder of women because they are women and states involvement in crime
Activist
Rally crowd
More complex than pinpointing state as culprit
Early childhood experiences affect later life
Femicide machine needs inputs to keep going impunity, patriarchal culture
Put one thing in, leads to Femicide outcome
Also reference to growing industrialization
Much bigger actors/forces taking place
Bigger than serial killers
Economic, political forces/conditions to sprout femicides
Destabilized region US preference for dictators
NAFTA only helps US
Response/reaction
Rappers rap about violence
Artworks sent around world to spread awareness
People serve as witnesses
Communities come together to monitor
Power gone awry
2009 state of Mexico found negligent to protecting its citizens
Civic responses have some success/influence