Femicide in Mexico: An approach through system dynamics

© 2019 IISE Annual Conference and Expo 2019. All rights reserved.One of the many problems mexican women face is the increase femicides due to the increase in violent crimes. Women in this country are the number one victims of violent crimes and many of these crimes are committed by their partners, or loved ones [1]. More serious crimes have resulted in the death of the victim. In 2011, only 22.2% of women older than 15 who suffered violence from her partner or ex-partner reported it to the authorities [2]. Femicide refers to the murder of women motivated by hatred, contempt, pleasure or sense of possession towards a woman. A relevant statistic showed that in 2016, there were 2,746 murder cases against women and the statistics continue to rise for the upcoming years [3].To model this complex a situation of Systems Thinking and System Dynamics is used as the central methodologies. The analysis of the problem starts with the collection of available information, followed by the creation of a dynamic hypothesis represented by a causal-loop systems thinking model. This was parameterized to analyze femicides trends and behaviors over time through a simulation based on the actual rates of partner abuse and the number of femicides thus would have an exponential growth towards 2022.

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