@article{ref1,
title="Medico legal and epidemiological aspects of femicide in a judicial district of north eastern Italy",
journal="Journal of forensic and legal medicine",
year="2016",
author="Moreschi, Carlo and Da Broi, Ugo and Zamai, Valentina and Palese, Francesca",
volume="39",
number="",
pages="65-73",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1752-928X",
doi="10.1016/j.jflm.2016.01.017",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2016.01.017"
}