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Classifying Partner Femicide [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Interpersonal Violence, 2008
The heterogeneity of domestic violent men has long been established. However, research has failed to examine this phenomenon among men committing the most severe form of domestic violence. This study aims to use a multidimensional approach to empirically construct a classification system of men who are incarcerated for the murder of their female ...
Dixon, Louise   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Cause of death: femicide [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Moving Towards More Inclusive Definitions of Femicide: Intersectionality and Marginalised Identities

open access: yesContemporary Challenges, 2023
Femicide violence has long been invisible. Drawing on feminist scholarship, this article will discuss existing definitions of femicide that have been key to its recognition as a distinct phenomenon.
Martina Caterini
doaj   +1 more source

Re-imagining what counts as femicide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This Special Subsection on Re-imagining what counts as femicide brings together five original articles which, from different perspectives, seek to push, challenge, and redefine what counts as femicide.
Walklate, S.   +8 more
core   +1 more source

The Rurality of Intimate Partner Femicide: Examining Risk Factors in Queensland

open access: yes, 2023
While violence against women and domestic violence can be seen throughout Australia, emerging evidence suggests that intimate partner femicide (IPF) is more common in rural spaces than urban ones.
Freya McLachlan, McLachlan, Freya
core   +1 more source

'He said he was going to kill me'

open access: yesJournal of Comparative Social Work, 2018
This article uses a case study design to explore attempted intimate femicide in metropolitan São Paulo, Brazil. We conducted 30 in-depth interviews with adult women on community and personal relationship experiences, health-care services, and national ...
Dabney P. Evans   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Shadowing Femi(ni)cide, Madness and the Politics of Female Control in Louisa May Alcott's "A Whisper in the Dark"

open access: yesMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies
The term ‘femicide’ entered public discourse only in the late 1970s, when feminist critic Diana Russell used the term to bring attention to male violence and discrimination against women. This article intends to re-examine the representation of femicide
Beatrice Melodia Festa
doaj   +1 more source

An exploratory study of the Psychosocial-Cultural factors contributing to Femicide in South Africa: A systematic review [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Globally, femicide is becoming an increasingly alarming and distressing issue, with women subjected to severe and often fatal violence. Femicide, the wilful homicide by men against their female counterparts, is a global and cumulative quagmire worldwide,
Asanda Zembe
doaj   +1 more source

Addressing the National Crisis of Femicide in Mexico: Understanding the root causes through Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of international case studies

open access: yes, 2023
reservedFemicide, the targeted killing of women because of their gender, is a pervasive and urgent issue in Mexico, with thousands of women murdered each year.
MADERO MONTANA, EVELYN
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Femicide in Turkey between 2000 and 2010. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
Although intimate partner violence (IPV) is an important problem that threatens women's health, very few studies focus on the victim-perpetrator relationship or examine this relationship across Turkey.
Sadik Toprak, Gokhan Ersoy
doaj   +1 more source

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