Femicide trends in Brazil: relationship between public interest and mortality rates

Martins-Filho, Paulo Ricardo; Mendes, Mário Luis Tavares; Reinheimer, Daniele Machado; Nascimento-Júnior, Edmundo Marques do; Vaez, Andréia Centenaro; Santos, Victor Santana; Santos, Hudson P.

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“…Meanwhile, the point estimate of femicides in Manaus is considerably lower than in other Brazilian studies, although the upper limit of the estimate reaches a proportion of nearly 46%. Importantly, previous studies in Brazil used different criteria to define femicide, for example, defining all homicides of women as femicides, and considering as femicide executions associated with the drug traffic or situations that involved disproportional use of lethal means by the assailant 7,8,27 . Not every homicide is a femicide; especially in areas with high levels of interpersonal violence, cases such as deadly robbery (robbery leading to death) or those involving ordinary delinquency may produce wide variation in the estimates of femicide 12 .…”

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“…Femicide means the intentional murder of a woman for gender reasons 5 . Still, given the difficulties in classifying such a complex phenomenon 6 , some authors have defined femicide more widely, including any intentional murder of women 7,8 . Femicide rates vary according to the sociocultural and political context in which women live 6,9,10,11 .…”

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“…The magnitude of femicide estimates also depends intrinsically on the strategy used to define and count the deaths, which may or may not bear a relationship to gender issues. More flexible definitions tend to overestimate femicides, while more conservative methodologies underestimate or even overlook them 8,12,13 .…”

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Resumo: Apesar de sua gravidade, o feminicídio é pouco investigado e suas estimativas dependem das estratégias usadas à sua caracterização, do contexto sociocultural e político. Este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar os homicídios intencionais de mulheres, com enfoque nos feminicídios, destacando suas características e fatores de risco. Estudo transversal, baseado em vigilância diária de homicídios na imprensa e em registros de mortalidade. Foram consideradas vítimas fatais por agressões, mortes de mulheres maiores de 11 anos, residentes em Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil, em 2016-2017. A classificação de feminicídios baseou-se na Lei nº 13.104/2015. O risco relativo foi estimado mediante regressão de Poisson e um modelo hierárquico foi empregado para a introdução das variáveis nos modelos. As análises foram efetuadas no software R. De 138 vítimas fatais por agressões, 52 foram feminicídios, 37,7% (IC: 29,4-45,5). A cada acréscimo unitário de idade o risco de feminicídio reduzia em 3% (IC: 0,95-0,99). O risco de feminicídio foi 40% menor (IC: 0,40-0,90) nas mulheres com até sete anos de escolaridade, em comparação às que tinham oito anos ou mais; as mulheres agredidas mediante força corporal tiveram risco 5,5 (IC: 2,6-11,3) vezes maior de feminicídio, em comparação às que foram agredidas com arma de fogo; e risco de feminicídio de 1,4 (IC: 1,1-2,7) nas que foram mortas durante o dia, em relação às que morreram de noite. A proporção de feminicídio deste estudo foi inferior a estimativas prévias no Brasil e a carga local da criminalidade urbana parece explicar parte desta divergência. Este trabalho demonstrou que idade, escolaridade, uso da força corporal e turno da agressão estão associados ao feminicídio.

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“…This reality can perhaps be explained by the fact that colored women live in greater proportions in places with great social vulnerability and lack of state protection, a condition that increases structural and gender violence. These are regions of high social vulnerability, with a strong presence of organized crime and drug trafficking and absence of the State, increasing structural violence and, thus, domestic violence (2,5,14,17) .…”

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“…It is estimated that in Brazil one in five women has been a victim of domestic violence (2) . In the last decade, 43,500 women were murdered, which is why the country ranks fifth in the world in the number of female homicides, with a rate of 4.5 per 100,000 women (1,(3)(4)(5)(6)(7) . Due to this increase, the Brazilian State, in the last decade, has developed actions to combat violence against women.…”

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Temporal trend of the homicide rate of Brazilian women

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Objective: to analyze the temporal trend of the homicide rate of women in the states of Northeastern Brazil. Methods: ecological study of temporal trend. Data were the 25,332 feminicide deaths recorded in the Mortality Information System. A temporal trend analysis was performed using negative binomial regression. Results: after the correction steps, there was an increase of approximately 17.0% in deaths, corresponding to the standardized average rate of 4.7/100,000 women. There were higher mortality rates in women in the second and third decades of life. Higher average rates per 100,000 women were observed in the states of Pernambuco (8.25) and Alagoas (6.32). An increase in mortality rates in all the states of the analyzed region, in the period verified was evidenced, with the exception of Sergipe. Conclusion: a high magnitude of feminicide rates and ascendant trends were observed in most states in the Northeast Region of Brazil.

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Violence takes many forms. It can be the infliction of physical pain and injury by one person towards another, but it also encompasses other harms-the violence of living in poverty or of being subjected to hate speech, for example. This chapter focuses on interpersonal violence between individuals, excluding sexual violence, which is discussed in Chapter 3. Interpersonal violence is not separate from other forms of violence. It is interrelated with state violence, which includes violence associated with law enforcement and immigration restriction, and structural violence, which refers to the harms of social inequality and the maldistribution of resources.Violence is central to securing political domination and to the maintenance of social hierarchies of race, gender, sexuality, class and nation (Collins, 2017). While acts of violence can be largescale and spectacular, violence is frequently embedded in the routine and everyday. Collins (1998Collins ( , 2017 analyses how different types of violence sustain social hierarchies in ways that are mutually supporting and constitutive. Racial dominance in the United States relies on spectacular, public violent events such as lynching and police brutality. It also relies on the routine violence of racist speech and the structural violence of discrimination

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Femicide trends in Brazil: relationship between public interest and mortality rates

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Temporal trend of the homicide rate of Brazilian women

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