Citation

Moreschi C, Da Broi U, Zamai V, Palese F. J. Forensic Leg. Med. 2016; 39: 65-73.

Affiliation

Department of Medical and Biological Sciences, Section of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jflm.2016.01.017

PMID

26854852

Abstract

Femicide is the intentional killing of a woman because she is female, and often occurs when there are pre-existing relations, intimate or otherwise, between the victim and the murderer. A retrospective epidemiological study was made of 34 female homicides recorded in a university departmental register of post-mortems, pertaining to a judicial district of about 700,000 inhabitants in north eastern Italy, during a 21-year period from January 1st 1993 to December 31st 2013. The temporal trend, the socio-demographic characteristics of victims and perpetrators, the circumstances surrounding the crime and the risk factors for femicide were studied with the aim of identifying and developing preventive strategies.

Language: en