Towards a European Observatory on Femicide

Wayl, Šalwā; Naudi, Marceline

doi:10.51952/9781447347163.ch007

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“…The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) concurs, establishing that violence against women poses "one of the most widespread violations of human rights", affecting females from every race, every culture, and of every age (ACUNS 2014). According to Weil et al (2018), although violence against women is thus largely recognized as a global human rights issue, the phenomenon has historically remained strangely invisible, and efforts of combatting it have often remained a low priority in practice ( Weil et al 2018, 2-5, 18). As such, the objective reality continues to be that many crimes against women go unpunished across the globe ( ACUNS 2014).…”

Section: The Global Prevalence Of Violence Against Womenmentioning

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Gendering hatred

Gunthel

2023

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Drawing on insights from human rights law, femicide laws, and hate crime studies, this article discusses the viability of including ‘gender’ in hate crime legislation, and the extent to which a legal approach of ‘gender-based hate crimes’ could serve a more efficient response to the global prevalence of violence against women than similar types of legal measurements. The article argues that, although there are sound principal reasons for including ‘gender’ in hate crime legislation, it could ultimately prove practically unviable, motivating instead a plethora of legal and non-legal approaches to counter and combat systemic violence against women.

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Gendering hatred

Gunthel

2023

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“…Outros fazem parte de sistemas de controle territorial, que utilizam os assassinatos como linguagem para mandar mensagens a seus oponentes (Segato, 2010). No entanto, grande parte dos feminicídios acontece em contextos intrafamiliares e domésticos, podendo ser perpetrados por parceiros íntimos, membros da família e, em raras ocasiões, por mulheres ou parceiras lésbicas (Weil;Corradi;Naudi, 2018). Em ambos os casos, sejam crimes cometidos por conhecidos ou desconhecidos, todos têm em comum que as mulheres são vistas como usáveis, prescindíveis, matáveis e descartáveis (Lagarde y De Los Ríos, 2008).…”

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Homens autores de homicídios femininos e feminicídios: análise de casos entre 2018 e 2019 na cidade de Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil

Caicedo-Roa,

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2024

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Resumo A violência contra as mulheres em entornos domésticos e familiares tem raízes na desigualdade existente entre os gêneros. Estudos sobre autores de violência letal são necessários para uma compreensão ampliada do fenômeno. O objetivo do estudo é caracterizar os crimes dessa natureza e seus autores, mediante autópsias verbais realizadas com conhecidos e familiares de mulheres vítimas de homicídio na cidade de Campinas. No total, foram estudados 38 casos de homicídio feminino, dos quais 63,2% correspondem a feminicídios. A maioria dos responsáveis pelos crimes eram conhecidos (parceiros, cônjuges e namorados) nos casos de feminicídio, e desconhecidos (sujeitos cuja identidade foi ignorada) nos casos de homicídio feminino. As mortes ocorreram majoritariamente em entornos domésticos, sendo ocasionadas mediante o uso expressivo de violência e o emprego de objetos cortantes/perfurantes e armas de fogo. A fuga foi a conduta mais frequente depois da perpetração dos assassinatos. Os casos foram discutidos articulando intervenções voltadas para grupos reflexivos de masculinidade, centros de educação e reabilitação ou programas de recuperação, problematizando as dificuldades e ganhos no marco da Lei Maria da Penha.

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Mental Disorders and Intimate Partner Femicide: Clinical Characteristics in Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Femicide and Male-to-Male Homicide

2022

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Intimate partner violence against women is a global and persistent public health issue. An extreme manifestation of this problem is intimate partner femicide (IPF), the killing of a woman by a male partner. While declining trends of homicide rates have been observed over decades, rates of femicide and IPF have remained stable. Yet, IPF as a phenomenon has until recently been fairly invisible in Europe, why research from the European countries on rates and characteristics of IPF has been relatively scarce. One area of research, particularly in need of further scrutiny, is to what degree perpetrators of IPF suffer from mental health conditions, and what the clinical features are. The objective of present study was to add to the existing literature by investigating prevalence and types of mental disorders in perpetrators of IPF, and to compare with male-to-male homicide (MMH) perpetrators. Our aim was also to examine life-time contact with psychiatric services, and, with missed opportunities in mind, contacts shortly preceding the homicide. With a retrospective design, this population-based study includes all solved cases of male-perpetrated homicides against intimate female partners (IPF) and other males (MMH) committed in Sweden between January 2007 and December 2009. Primary and secondary psychiatric diagnoses based on ICD, version 8, 9 or 10 from psychiatric inpatient as well as outpatient care have been retrieved. In order to identify mental disorders in perpetrators during commission of the homicidal offense, we also retrieved diagnoses from forensic psychiatric evaluations. Our results demonstrate that approximately one-third of the perpetrators, irrespective of homicide type, had been diagnosed with a mental disorder (excluding substance related disorders) at some point in life. Diagnosis of substance related disorders from psychiatric care was significantly more common in MMH perpetrators (37%) compared to IPF perpetrators (15%). Similarly low rates of major mental disorder were found in both groups (11%) when aggregating life-time diagnoses and diagnoses during commission of the crime. However, homicide-suicide in connection to the offense was relatively common in IPF perpetrators (20%). Thus, our study supports the notion that previous suicide attempts and suicide ideation are important indicators for predicting and possibly preventing IPF.

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Towards a European Observatory on Femicide

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Gendering hatred

Gendering hatred

Homens autores de homicídios femininos e feminicídios: análise de casos entre 2018 e 2019 na cidade de Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil

Mental Disorders and Intimate Partner Femicide: Clinical Characteristics in Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Femicide and Male-to-Male Homicide

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