TITLE:
Association of Socioeconomic Factors to Domestic Violence and Murder of Women: The Case of Yucatán, México
AUTHORS:
Yolanda Oliva Peña
KEYWORDS:
Gender Violence, Female Homicides, Sector of Economic Activity, Yucatan, Mexico
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.7 No.14,
December
12,
2016
ABSTRACT: Registration of deaths classified as femicide, is an issue that occupies a breach of law, and that in this matter inconsistencies and absences in the information generated persist and persist in popular culture a strong stigma that various social groups and affected (victims) lead to underreporting of gender violence. Documentary research that conducted to determine the association of geographic areas and social factors related to violence to women occurred in the state of Yucatan during 2004 to 2014. Of the major findings of this study are: there are significant differences in the presence of domestic violence with the economic sector with a value of the test statistic of 13,500 with two degrees of freedom, a significant difference with a P-value of 0.001 (P-value P-value