Forensic Perspective and Gender-Based Violence

The Forensic Perspective as an emerging category of forensic sciences, promises to be on the one hand the epistemology of the forensic and on the other hand its methodology; so that society, especially the states have a way of knowing the violence that occurs within their social relations and a methodology to address this process of knowledge. In the case of gender-based violence, among other forms of violence, it is essential to broaden the basis of forensic analysis beyond the primary cellular repair, integrating the advances that have been achieved in the understanding of the health-disease process and developments in human rights. It is in this context where the comparison between Female Genital Mutilation/Ablation and Biopolymer Infiltration provides us with a material basis that allows us to elucidate the components of a forensic perspective on GBV in general and in particular on these two forms of domination over the body and sexuality of women that occurs on both sides of the Colombian ethnic border.