Ecologies of Violence: A Comparative Perspective in Contemporary Victimology and Criminology

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.