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In memoriam

Professor Gerardo González Ascencio was a professor attached to the Law Department of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Azcapotzalco Campus for 40 years. In that time, he dedicated himself to teaching about the history of Mexico and, in his last decades, the subjects of Criminology and History of Punishment in Mexico (Penology). He also taught the course on Criminal Law and Gender in the Master of Laws program that was taught at the UAM Azcapotzalco Campus.

He cultivated two lines of research: the first had to do with sexual criminal law and studies on gender violence in Mexico, and the second was related to the history of crime in 19th-century Mexico.

Within his substantive functions as a full-time professor, he held different academic management positions: Coordinator of the Law Degree, Head of the Law Department, and Academic Secretary of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities.

In political activism, he participated for decades in an NGO specialized in gender violence and was part of the technical groups that formulated proposals (which turned into positive legislation) for reforms in the area of sexual crimes and domestic violence.