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.
Lara Quijano-Sanchez +1 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 +1 more
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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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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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“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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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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Femicides in Turkey: Analysis of the last two decades’ cases [PDF]
European Journal of Public Health, 2022 Erbaydar N, Muharremoğlu Z, Mutlu D.
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Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2023 On 23 March 2020, Boris Johnson’s government declared a lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic that was spreading across the country. Very quickly, feminist domestic violence associations alerted the public authorities to the emergence of a ...
Corinne Nativel
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Narrativas estéticas como política de resistencia desde la experiencia femenina hondureña
Ambigua, 2020 Honduras is framed in a scenario of different kinds of violence that prevent the democratic progress of the country. The high rates of criminal violence are attributed to a problem among gangs that persists in a context of poverty and ...
Silvia Gas
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