Femicide is defined as "the killing of females by males, because they are females" (Russell & Harmes, Femicide in global perspective. Teachers College Press, 2001). This definition was posed to highlight the role of gender inequality and the domination of men over women as a key ...
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In the 1970s, Diana E. H. Russell, a feminist author first defined the term femicide as “the killing of females by males because they are female.” The term was publicized at the “Crimes Against Women Tribunal in 1976 at the first International Tribunal on Crimes against Women in Belgium...
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Which factors orient judges in defining their sentences? Are judicial narrations different when the victim is a foreigner? The outcome of our empirical research, conducted through both qualitative and quantitative methods, led us, in this perspective, to a series of reflections (Cardano 2011; Gobo...
According to her perspective, women are killed for being women, and in that sense, the crime could not be judged as gender neutral. Although the term femicide is not adopted in the scope of the Portuguese criminal law, it was chosen by the authors for the purpose of this study as it ...