Ecologies of Violence

Oscar Ivan Cortes-Perez is a forensic victimologist and professor of tertiary education. He earned a Psychology degree with Honorific Mention from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi (Mexico) and a master’s in Forensic Sciences and Victimology from the Autonomous University of Durango Campus Zacatecas (Mexico). Early in his career, he interned at the Attorney General’s Office of San Luis Potosi and at the federal level in Mexico, conducting forensic investigations on homicide, feminicide, torture, and gender-based political violence. He has also collaborated with the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in San Luis Potosi on child sexual abuse and intimate partner violence cases. Since 2017, he has taught at the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi, including graduate-level courses since 2020. His research focuses on gender-based violence, forensic and critical victimology, and epistemic injustice. He is a member of the Mexican Society of Criminology (SOMECRIM) and the World Society of Victimology (WSV). He is the author of the collection “Forensic Victimology and Femi(ni)cide: A Transdisciplinary Approach on Forensic Evidence and its Contexts” also published by Springer.

• Chapter 1 Analysis and Documentation of Violence from the Psychosocial Perspective: The Particular Case of Severe Human Rights Violations.- Chapter 2 Psychosocial-Centered Instruments for the Documentation of the Impact of Victimization: A Forensic Methodological Proposal.- Chapter 3 De-Idealizing the Ideal Victim: Epistemic Injustice, Symbolic Violence, and Narrative Victimology.- Chapter 4 Geo-Spatial Analysis of the Femi-Disappearance in the Municipality of San Luis Potosi during 2017–2024.- Chapter 5 Victimological Model of Chemical Violence and Acid Attacks on Women.- Chapter 6 Reframing Harm: Pornography, Intimate Partner Sexual Violence and Zemiological Principles for Social Transformation.- Chapter 7 From Home to Heart: Adolescent Violence in the Home as a Turning Point in Intimate Partner Violence Trajectories.- Chapter 8 Substance Use, Criminal Behavior, and Adolescence: Insights from Public Health.- Chapter 9 The Accumulation of Childhood Maltreatment, Developmental Trauma and Victimology.- Chapter 10 Measuring and Addressing Childhood and Youth Victimization from the School Context.- Chapter 11 Building Safe Environments: Professional Training Initiatives in Spain for the Prevention of Violence Against Children.