Walklate, Sandra.
Towards a Global Femicide Index Counting the Costs. [electronic resource] : - Milton : Routledge, 2020. - 1 online resource (121 p.). - Criminology in Focus Ser. .
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 'setting the scene' -- 1 How do we count? Mapping global approaches to counting women's deaths -- 2 Trends in counting: what do the numbers mean? -- 3 Why counting matters: the opportunities and benefits of counting intimate femicide -- 4 The risks of counting the killing of women -- 5 Using data on intimate femicide to inform risk -- Conclusion: looking to the future -- from counting to preventing? -- Index
Increasingly there is global attention on the prevalence of women's deaths resulting from intimate partner violence. Campaigns such as Counting Dead Women' in Australia, the Femicide Census' in England, the Canadian Femicide Observatory, and the emergence of family violence death review teams globally, build on the work of agencies such as the United Nations and the World Health Organisation, highlighting the fatal consequences of intimate partner violence for women around the world. This book considers the need for and the steps to be taken towards creating a meaningful framework for a global index of women's deaths from intimate partner violence. While there are global indices for deaths that relate to public violence, such as terrorism, there is to date no systematic global count of killings of women by their intimate partners. It considers the possibilities and challenges that arise in counting intimate femicide. It argues that such an exercise needs to avoid narrow empiricism and instead be part of a broader feminist political project aimed at ending violence against women. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, law, policing, and politics.
9780429649882 0429649886 9781138393134 1138393134 9780429644603 0429644604 9780429647246 0429647247
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Intimate partner violence.
Women--Violence against.
Women--Violence against--Prevention.
Women--Violence against--Statistics.
HV6626
364.152082
Towards a Global Femicide Index Counting the Costs. [electronic resource] : - Milton : Routledge, 2020. - 1 online resource (121 p.). - Criminology in Focus Ser. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 'setting the scene' -- 1 How do we count? Mapping global approaches to counting women's deaths -- 2 Trends in counting: what do the numbers mean? -- 3 Why counting matters: the opportunities and benefits of counting intimate femicide -- 4 The risks of counting the killing of women -- 5 Using data on intimate femicide to inform risk -- Conclusion: looking to the future -- from counting to preventing? -- Index
Increasingly there is global attention on the prevalence of women's deaths resulting from intimate partner violence. Campaigns such as Counting Dead Women' in Australia, the Femicide Census' in England, the Canadian Femicide Observatory, and the emergence of family violence death review teams globally, build on the work of agencies such as the United Nations and the World Health Organisation, highlighting the fatal consequences of intimate partner violence for women around the world. This book considers the need for and the steps to be taken towards creating a meaningful framework for a global index of women's deaths from intimate partner violence. While there are global indices for deaths that relate to public violence, such as terrorism, there is to date no systematic global count of killings of women by their intimate partners. It considers the possibilities and challenges that arise in counting intimate femicide. It argues that such an exercise needs to avoid narrow empiricism and instead be part of a broader feminist political project aimed at ending violence against women. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, law, policing, and politics.
9780429649882 0429649886 9781138393134 1138393134 9780429644603 0429644604 9780429647246 0429647247
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Intimate partner violence.
Women--Violence against.
Women--Violence against--Prevention.
Women--Violence against--Statistics.
HV6626
364.152082