Silent witnesses: unveiling the epidemic of femicides in North-west Tshwane, South Africa – a decade of analysis [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Femicides, defined as the gender-based killing of women, are a pressing public health issue worldwide, with South Africa experiencing some of the highest rates globally.
Yaseen Bismilla +2 more
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Evolution and study of a copycat effect in intimate partner homicides: A lesson from Spanish femicides. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 ObjectivesThis paper focuses on the issue of intimate partner violence and, specifically, on the distribution of femicides over time and the existence of copycat effects.
José L Torrecilla +4 more
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Female homicides and femicides in Ecuador: a nationwide ecological analysis from 2001 to 2017 [PDF]
BMC Women's Health, 2022 Background Gender–based violence is a major public health concern arising from the structural discrimination of women and girls. In 2014, Ecuador criminalized acts of femicide in response to a growing crisis across the region.
Esteban Ortiz-Prado +9 more
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“The devil is in the detail”: geographical inequalities of femicides in Ecuador [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021 Background Femicide is a very important public health problem in Ecuador. Since regional and country-level femicide rates can obscure significant variations at the sub-national level, it is important to provide information at the lowest relevant level of
Osvaldo Fonseca-Rodríguez +1 more
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Femicide in Mexico: Statistical evidence of an increasing trend. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 This study analyzes whether femicide in Mexico has increased more severely than other life and bodily integrity crimes (e.g., homicide, culpable homicide, injuries, malicious injuries, abortion, and other crimes that threaten life).
Eva Selene Hernández Gress +3 more
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Sexual femicide, non-sexual femicide and rape: Where do the differences lie? A continuum in a pattern of violence against women [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Violence against women is a growing health problem, especially when perpetrated in intimate relationships. Despite increasing attention, there is little comparative evidence on the different types of violence involved and there is a paucity of research ...
Georgia Zara +3 more
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"Domestic Drama," "Love Killing," or "Murder": Does the Framing of Femicides Affect Readers' Emotional and Cognitive Responses to the Crime? [PDF]
Violence Against Women, 2023 We conducted two framing experiments to test how downplaying femicide frames affect readers’ reactions. Results of Study 1 (Germany, N = 158) indicate that emotional reactions were increased when a femicide was labeled as “murder” compared to “domestic ...
Schnepf J, Christmann U.
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Unveiling the determinants of femicide in Ecuador: a comprehensive analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyThis paper reports an investigation of the determinants of femicide using the context of Ecuador as case of study. To do so, we use official data spanning 2018 to 2022 from the National Survey on Family Relations and Gender Violence against Women in ...
Juan Pablo Díaz-Sánchez +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217914.].
José L Torrecilla +4 more
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The magnitude of the injury pattern in femicides by stabbing in Colombian women
Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2017 Introduction: Assessing the severity of the injuries suffered by victims may contribute to prevent femicide more effectively. Objective: To establish whether the amount of wounds recorded in femicides by stabbing vary according to the age of the victim ...
John Vergel +1 more
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