Femicide
Problems, Possibilities, and Prevention
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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 of femicide, from intimate partner femicide to its connections with women’s suicide, and the institutional failures associated with Indigenous women’s deaths in the context of intimate partner violence. This collection contributes to progressing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5.2.1: the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls in public and in private, which sits within SDG5 focused on improving gender equality worldwide.
In extending recent work done by the editors on the measurement of women’s deaths as a result of male violence, Femicide: Problems, Possibilities and Prevention considers how theory, research, activism, policy, and prevention in different contemporary environments impact on how femicide is defined, understood and prevented. The debates explored within this book pose particular challenges for practitioners in developing effective risk informed prevention.
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
Reads easily and with great interest.
Kate Fitz-Gibbon a Professor (Practice) with the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University in Australia and an Honorary Professorial Fellow with the Melbourne Law School. Kate is an international research leader in the area of femicide, responses to violence against women and children, perpetrator interventions, and the impacts of policy and practice reform.
Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK. She has an ongoing adjunct professorial role at QUT in Brisbane, Australia, is a Research Associate at the University of West Virginia Center for Violence Research and Visiting Professor (Violence and Society Research Centre), City University. She is internationally recognised for her work in victimology, criminal victimisation, and violence against women.