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Temida, 2014 Media in Serbia explain femicide usually as caused by poverty and alcoholism. This style is gender blind and socially stereotyped because of neglected gender aspects of male violence against women.
Mršević Zorica
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Problem Representations of Femicide/Feminicide Legislation in Latin America [PDF]
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2020 Femicide/feminicide has become an increasing social concern for local communities, international organizations, and national governments. In 2007, Latin American countries began enacting legislation to prevent and punish femicide/feminicide; however ...
Michelle Carrigan, Myrna Dawson
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Characterising the killing of girls and women in urban settings in Latin America, 2000–2019: an analysis of variability and time trends using mortality data from vital registration systems [PDF]
BMJ Public HealthIntroduction Latin America is burdened by high levels of violence. Although boys and men often experience more violence and fatalities, girls and women face a greater risk of being killed by family members or intimate partners due to their gender, a ...
Ana V Diez Roux +12 more
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Femicide in Ireland 2012-2023.
Journal of Forensic and Legal MedicineINTRODUCTION Femicide represents the dramatic end-point on a spectrum of violence against women and is an increasingly prevalent medico-legal issue. Whilst there is no definition of femicide in the Irish legal system, femicide can be understood as the ...
K. McGoldrick +2 more
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Femicide in Latin America: An economic approach [PDF]
Desarrollo y Sociedad, 2021 The rising cases of femicide across Latin America have pushed governments to enact specific laws criminalizing this gender-based murder to deter violence and crime against women.
Carolina Álvarez-Garavito +1 more
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Feminicidios en Perú. ¿Son algunos departamentos intrínsecamente más peligrosos para las mujeres?
Revista de Análisis Económico y Financiero, 2021 Femicide in Peru is a problem that affects each of its departments, some to a greater extent. Departments such as Madre de Dios and others in the south of the country (such as Tacna, Arequipa, Ayacucho or Moquegua) have consistently had the highest rates
Jorge Mori Mojalott
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The geography of femicide in Sergipe, Brazil: matriarchy, human development, and income distribution [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia, 2021 : Aim: This research analyzed a joint spatial distribution and explored the possible associations between epidemiological aspects and feminicide rates, in towns of the Sergipe State in Northeastern Brazil.
Yamilla Ramos Carvalho de Sá +4 more
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Global Public Health, 2023 Lethal violence requires a gender-based analysis which recognises that femicide is different from homicide in many ways. Structural factors such as national income and wealth equality together with government policies may influence the scale of the ...
Richard Whittington +2 more
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, 2018 "Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Femicide, the killing of women and girls because of their gender, was until recently included in the category ‘homicide’, obscuring the special features of this social and gendered phenomenon.
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Cause of death: femicide [PDF]
, 2023 Labelled ‘the shadow pandemic’ by UN Women, violence against women received considerable global public attention during 2020–21. Underpinning this moment of public concern, there lies a substantial history of efforts to document the nature of, and ...
Sandra Walklate +5 more
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