Femicide : problems, possibilities, and prevention

Femicide - the killing of women and girls - has gained increasing prominence on global and national agendas since the United Nations and the World Health Organisation, amongst others, started to respond to femicide as an issue of global concern. This edited collection explores the nature and extent...

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Other Authors Fitz-Gibbon, Kate (Editor), Walklate, Sandra (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025.
SeriesEmerald studies in criminology, feminism and social change.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781836080428
DOI10.1108/9781836080404
Physical Description1 online resource (184 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Defining, counting, preventing femicide / Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sandra Walklate
  • Part one. Rendering femicide visible
  • Chapter 1. Counting femicides across the European Union / Cristina Fabre Rosell and Eneidia Bardho
  • Chapter 2. Change, intimacy, and relationships: Implications for measuring intimate and non-intimate femicide / Caroline Miles, Elizabeth A. Cook, and Merili Pullerits
  • Chapter 3. Counting women's deaths 'with' male violence and 'from' male violence: Lessons from the pandemic death counting practices / Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sandra Walklate
  • Part two. Rendering femicide knowable: Reflections on practice
  • Chapter 4. Finding the victim's voice in fatality reviews / Negar Katirai
  • Chapter 5. Eliminating femicide: The role of expert domestic and family violence evidence in the coronial investigation process / Heather Douglas
  • Chapter 6. Domestic abuse-related death reviews in England and Wales: Establishment, practices, and change / James Rowlands
  • Part three. Rendering femicide preventable
  • Chapter 7. Coroners, femicide and the politics of preventability / Rebecca Scott Bray
  • Chapter 8. Intimate femicide, technology, and domestic and family violence / Bridget Harris
  • Chapter 9. Suicide and femicide: Rendering histories of violence visible in women's deaths from suicide / Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Stefani Vasil
  • Chapter 10. 'Boundary objects' and 'black boxes': Theory informed prevention for femicide / Sandra Walklate Conclusion: Looking to the future, learning from the past / Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sandra Walklate.