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Title: | Research and prevention of femicide across Europe |
Authors: | Weil, Shalva |
Keywords: | Women -- Crimes against -- Europe Women -- Crimes against -- Research Women -- Crimes against -- Prevention |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
Publisher: | Policy Press |
Citation: | Weil, S. (2018). Research and prevention of femicide across Europe. In S. Weil, C. Corradi, & M. Naudi (Eds.), Femicide across Europe: Theory, research and prevention (pp. 1-15). Bristol: Policy Press. |
Abstract: | Femicide is the intentional killing of women and girls because of their gender. Femicides are usually perpetrated by intimate partners (for example, husbands or boyfriends) or family members (for example, fathers, brothers or cousins), who are usually familiar males; on rare occasions the perpetrators can be women, either lesbian partners or kin. A global study of homicides carried out by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in 2012 showed that 79% of all homicide victims were male. The global average male homicide rate was, at 9.7 per 100,000, almost four times the global average female rate. However, the majority of homicides in the domestic field were femicides (which the authors called ‘female intentional homicides’) perpetrated by intimate partners or family members. Of 93,000 global femicides reported in 2012, 43,600 women – that is, nearly 50% – were killed by intimate partners or family members, as opposed to only 6% among male homicides (UNODC, 2014: 53). |
Description: | Includes Contents, Acknowledgements, Notes on editors, Figures and tables. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/38021 |
ISBN: | 9781447347132 |
Appears in Collections: | Femicide across Europe : theory, research and prevention |
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