What is it about?
The word "femicide" indicates the killing of a woman because she is a woman. This article reviews the different notions of femicide that are found in the world, and it reviews how germicide is accounted for by social theories.
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Why is it important?
Rates of femicide are very high in many countries of the world. This papers helps readers understand how to improve awareness and prevention of femicide across different social contexts.
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Femicide is a heinous crime. Most of the time, the perpetrator is an intimate partner or family relative of the victim. To stop germicide, we need to understand this basic notion and how it occurs.
Professor Consuelo Corradi
Lumsa University
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This page is a summary of: Theories of femicide and their significance for social research, Current Sociology, July 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0011392115622256.
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