This study identified femicide-suicide risk factors in an 11-city case-control study of femicide in the United States. Perpetrator, victim, relationship, and incident characteristics were analyzed for femicide-
In most cases, when women immigrate to the United States they are either alone or have paid a great deal of money to have a smuggler help them on their journey to reach the US and Mexico border, which means that they are in a situation where they are very vulnerable, which can lead ...
However, adolescent homicide rates in the United States remain unacceptably high, exceeding those of other industrialized countries.4 In 1999, homicide was the second leading cause of death for African American boys aged 10 to 14 years and the leading cause of death for African American boys aged...
A woman is killed every three days in Italy, according to data from the Italian interior ministry. The ministry's website states 110 women have been murdered this year alone, with more than half of them allegedly by a partner or former partner. Gentili said tha...
(quoted in Kerekes and Slater 23). Kerekes and Slater report that similar scandals arose over the projection ofSnuffin other cities in the United States and Canada, and that its exhibition was banned by some local governments (23). In Indianapolis and Las Vegas, local authorities required that...
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Domestic violence is a serious problem in Portugal, affecting mainly women. The significant number of femicides in the context of intimate partner violence has been showing not only the severity of the crime, but also the necessity to reinforce strategies to prevent and combat it. Although several...
Hundreds of U.S.-based scholars say the United States is swiftly heading away from liberal democracy and towards some form of authoritarianism. In this episode of The Sunday Story, NPR's Frank Langfitt speaks to people who have fled authoritarian regimes for America. They say some of the Tru...
As the United States and the rest of the world focus their attention on the Middle East, atrocities are taking place in other regions of the world unnoticed by the international community. The violence that ravaged Latin America during the 1980s is not over. A waveR Grais...
In the United States, homicide is a leading cause of death among young women. In New York City between 1990 and 1997, although the overall number of femicides declined markedly, intimate partner femicides increased. The reason for this is unclear. Sociostructural accounts of homicide rates have...