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Towards a global femicide index : counting the costs / Sandra Walklate, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Jude McCulloch and JaneMaree Maher
(Victims, culture, and society)

Material Type	Books
Publisher	New York : Routledge
Year	[2020]
Language	English
Size	108 p. ; 23 cm

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Location	Volume	Call No.	Barcode No.	Status	Comments	ISBN	Printed	Restriction	Req Memo
Books	: hbk	367.3/To77	2000107317			9781138389083

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Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index Summary: "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 par
Authors	*Walklate, Sandra author Fitz-Gibbon, Kate (Lecturer in criminology) author McCulloch, Jude author
Subjects	LCSH:Intimate partner violence LCSH:Women -- Violence against All Subject Search LCSH:Women -- Violence against -- Prevention All Subject Search LCSH:Women -- Violence against -- Statistics All Subject Search WISH:女性に対する暴力 WISH:殺人 WISH:家庭内暴力 WISH:ドメスティック・バイオレンス
Classification	LCC:HV6626 DC23:364.152082
ID	BB11492092
ISBN	9781138389083
NCID	BC07421683

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