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oapen-20.500.12657-282432021-11-10T08:06:34Z Femicide across Europe Weil, Shalva Corradi, Consuelo Naudi, Marceline European Observatory Femicide Gender-related killing Homicide Honour killings Intimate partner violence Policy bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSJ Gender studies, gender groups "Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Femicide, the killing of women and girls because of their gender, was until recently included in the category ‘homicide’, obscuring the special features of this social and gendered phenomenon. However, the majority of murders of women are perpetrated by men whom they know from family ties and are the result of intimate partner violence or so-called 'honour' killings. This book is the first one on femicide in Europe and presents the findings of a four-year project discussing various aspects of femicide. Written by leading international scholars with an interdiscplinary perspective, it looks at the prevention programmes and comparative quantitative and qualitative data collection, as well as the impact of culture. It proposes the establishment of a European Observatory on Femicide as a new direction for the future, showing the benefits of cross-national collaboration, united to prevent the murder of women and girls." 2018-10-22 23:55 2019-11-26 15:01:05 2020-04-01T12:18:50Z 2020-04-01T12:18:50Z 2018 book 1001748 OCN: 1083019684 9781447347132; 9781447347149; 9781447347156 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28243 eng application/pdf n/a 9781447347163.pdf Policy Press 10.1332/9781447347163 10.1332/9781447347163 f394f44e-e957-4b77-91b6-32fe9c22978a 9781447347132; 9781447347149; 9781447347156 200 Bristol open access
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"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Femicide, the killing of women and girls because of their gender, was until recently included in the category ‘homicide’, obscuring the special features of this social and gendered phenomenon. However, the majority of murders of women are perpetrated by men whom they know from family ties and are the result of intimate partner violence or so-called 'honour' killings.
This book is the first one on femicide in Europe and presents the findings of a four-year project discussing various aspects of femicide. Written by leading international scholars with an interdiscplinary perspective, it looks at the prevention programmes and comparative quantitative and qualitative data collection, as well as the impact of culture. It proposes the establishment of a European Observatory on Femicide as a new direction for the future, showing the benefits of cross-national collaboration, united to prevent the murder of women and girls."
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