Femicide across Europe

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“…Regarding the moral tolerance of VAW, two situations can be identified among the countries covered by this study: the post-Soviet countries, where the condoning of violence against women derives from moral values and religious fundamentalism meeting the political discourse related to Europeanization (Darakchi 2019;Johnson 2009;Tarkhanova 2021), and EU member state countries where, despite legislation, cultural norms rooted in patriarchal gender norms are still used to justify gendered violence and play down male crime against women (Busso et al 2020;Latcheva 2017;Weil et al 2018).…”

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The Cultural Roots of Violence against Women: Individual and Institutional Gender Norms in 12 Countries

Lomazzi

2023

Social Sciences

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To discuss the cultural roots of violence against women (VAW), this study focuses on individual gender norms, prescriptive gender role expectations, moral justification of VAW, and institutional gender norms that define gender cultures, that provide opportunities for VAW, and legitimize roles and behaviors. We used indicators of gender norms related to VAW from different sources to provide an overview of 12 countries (Armenia, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, and Ukraine). The indicators include individual gender role attitudes and justification of wife beating from the World Values Survey; information on national legislation and institutional discrimination from the Social Institution Gender Index from the OECD; and each country’s position on the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence—a transnational platform with relevant transformative power that has been opposed by anti-Europeanists. Although situations vary significantly in the different countries, this explorative study suggests that eradicating the cultural roots of VAW is more difficult in societies in which rigid traditional gender roles and a strongly patriarchal culture in legislation and institutions are supported by moral views legitimizing violence as a form of punishment for challenging prescribed gender roles.

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The Cultural Roots of Violence against Women: Individual and Institutional Gender Norms in 12 Countries

Lomazzi

2023

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PROTOCOL: Risk factors for femicide

Caicedo-Roa

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Cordeiro

2020

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The medicolegal, psycho-criminological, and epidemiological reality of intimate partner and non-intimate partner femicide in North-West Italy: looking backwards to see forwards

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This paper addresses femicide in Italy. The assumption is that femicide is not a discrete act of killing a woman. It is assumed that depending on the types of relationship between the victim and the perpetrator (e.g., known versus unknown, intimate versus acquaintance), the risk processes may differ. When femicide involves the killing of an intimate partner, it is likely to be characterized by sustained and escalating intimate partner violence (IPV) that can reach its climax with extreme acts of violence that lead to intimate partner femicide (IPF). Eighty-six cases of femicide that occurred in North-West Italy between 1993 and 2013 were examined in this study. Findings suggest that femicide was disproportionately perpetrated by intimate partners (current or past), rather than strangers. IPF was likely to be the epilogue of an abusive relationship, with high levels of contentiousness and conflicts being the frequent significant precursors. Non-intimate partner femicide (NPF) was more likely to be characterized by antisocial or predatory motives, highly frequent when the victims were prostitutes. These preliminary findings suggest that joint scientific, professional, and political efforts are paramount in order to address strategies aimed at assessing the differential risk of IPV early in time so as to prevent it from escalating into IPF or NPF and to provide the appropriate support for victims and their families.

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Femicide across Europe

Cited by 16 publications

References 37 publications

The Cultural Roots of Violence against Women: Individual and Institutional Gender Norms in 12 Countries

The Cultural Roots of Violence against Women: Individual and Institutional Gender Norms in 12 Countries

PROTOCOL: Risk factors for femicide

The medicolegal, psycho-criminological, and epidemiological reality of intimate partner and non-intimate partner femicide in North-West Italy: looking backwards to see forwards

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