Intimate Partner Femicide–Suicides in Ghana

Adinkrah, Mensah

doi:10.1177/1077801214549637

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“…They are the most highly subscribed newspapers by the general public, government ministries, departments and agencies, academic and research institutions and other local and international organisations operating in the country [ 41 ]. Peace FM ( peacefmonline.com ) and Joy FM ( myjoyonline.com ) are private radio stations with wider coverage across the country and are the most popular, and leading radio stations in Ghana [ 7 ]. The websites of these two leading radio stations provide English versions of their news items broadcasted to the general public in the local language.…”

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Ghanaian media coverage of violence against women and girls: implications for health promotion

Owusu‐Addo¹,

Owusu-Addo²,

Antoh³

et al. 2018

BMC Women's Health

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BackgroundViolence against women and girls (VAWG) is an important public health issue. Framing studies indicate that how the news media cover public health issues is critical for designing effective health promotion interventions. Notwithstanding this, there is little research particularly in low-and middle-income country context examining how the news media frame VAWG. This paper examines news coverage of VAWG in Ghana, and the implications of this for health promotion.MethodsThis study used frame analysis as the methodological framework in examining how VAWG in Ghana is represented by the media. Qualitative content analysis approach to frame analysis was performed on 48 news articles which constituted the unit of analysis.ResultsThe findings indicate that media framing of VAWG was episodic in nature as the acts of violence perpetrated against women and girls were presented as individual cases without reference to the wider social contexts within which they occurred. Similarly, victim blaming language was largely used in the news articles. In framing VAWG as an individual incident and women as helpless victims, the media fail to shape society’s perception of VAWG as a social and public health issue.ConclusionsFor the media in Ghana to contribute to the prevention of VAWG, there is the need for news coverage to focus on social construction of the issue, and also raise awareness about support services available to victims.

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“…Also, although attitudes and practices are changing due to globalisation and influences of formal education, the typical Ghanaian family is still a patriarchal institution. In the domestic realm, men consider it a marital right to control and discipline their wives resulting in frequent intimate partner violence against women [ 7 ].…”

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Ghanaian media coverage of violence against women and girls: implications for health promotion

Owusu‐Addo¹,

Owusu-Addo²,

Antoh³

et al. 2018

BMC Women's Health

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“…A study from Ghana suggested that suspicions of infidelity could also lead to femicide, and the subsequent suicide of the male partner [79]. In seven cases of femicide-suicide extracted from a major newspaper, it was found to be most often precipitated by women being out of the house (or asking permission to leave) and their husbands suspecting them of being interested in other men.…”

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A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review: Infidelity, Romantic Jealousy and Intimate Partner Violence against Women

Pichon

Treves-Kagan

Stern

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Infidelity and romantic jealousy (RJ) are commonly cited relational level drivers of intimate partner violence (IPV) but remain undertheorized and underutilized in IPV research and prevention. This global systematic review aims to characterize the existing research on real or suspected infidelity and RJ in relation to IPV and inform future research and programming. We systematically searched 11 databases for peer-reviewed research, published between April 2009 and 2019, that provided data on the prevalence or a measure of association (quantitative), or pathway (qualitative), between real or suspected infidelity or RJ, and IPV. Fifty-one papers from 28 countries were included and the evidence showed a consistent association between real or suspected infidelity, RJ and IPV. Our findings identify three overarching mechanisms and six pathways between infidelity, RJ and IPV. These provide support for prominent theories in the field related to patriarchal culture, threatened masculinities and femininities and a lack of emotional regulation and conflict resolution skills, but not evolutionary theories. Our findings suggest that researchers should use standardized measurement tools that make the distinction between RJ and suspected, confirmed and accusations of infidelity. Policy and programming should aim to transform traditional gender roles, accounting for infidelity and RJ and improving couple’s communication and trust.

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“…The use of newspapers to study murder has been an accepted methodology, especially in countries where there are no national criminal justice databases (Adinkrah, 2014(Adinkrah, , 2017(Adinkrah, , 2018 or during historical periods where newspapers constituted the most accessible centralised repository of information about crime in a community (Sharpe, 2012).…”

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“…Due to the violent nature of the act, family-related murders often receive extensive media coverage (Adinkrah, 2014;Liem & Reichelmann, 2014); it was therefore possible to identify family-related murders using this open source methodology (Parkin & Gruenewald, 2015). Our study identified 126 incidents of homicides within the family; of these, 46 incidents (37%) were parricide cases.…”

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Multiple‐victim parricides in South Africa, 1990–2019

Moen

Shon

2020

Journal Invest Psychology

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Previous studies of homicides in South Africa have examined serial murders and mass killings. While some scholars have examined parricides in African countries such as Ghana and Zimbabwe, few have examined the intersection of parricide and multiple victim homicides in the context of South Africa. This paper examines multiple victim parricides in a South African context using newspapers and court records as data. Eighteen cases of multiple-victim parricides were identified and analysed. Our findings indicate that multiple victim parricides in South Africa are shaped by residential patterns as well as social and cultural factors that are unique to South Africa that are embodied in the offence characteristics. The implications on the findings are discussed.

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Intimate Partner Femicide–Suicides in Ghana

Cited by 40 publications

References 41 publications

Ghanaian media coverage of violence against women and girls: implications for health promotion

Ghanaian media coverage of violence against women and girls: implications for health promotion

A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review: Infidelity, Romantic Jealousy and Intimate Partner Violence against Women

Multiple‐victim parricides in South Africa, 1990–2019

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