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.
Publication date:
2018
Action:
IS1206
- Author(s): Shalva Weil, Consuelo Corradi and Marceline Naudi
- Publisher(s): Policy Press
- https://policypress.co.uk/femicide-across-europe