Towards a Global Femicide Index

Walklate, Sandra; Fitz‐Gibbon, Kate; McCulloch, Jude; Maher, JaneMaree

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“…We officially requested these data, but we were only given data for one year. Additionally, there are no comparable data for femicide on a global level, or even across Latin America, and counting femicide is fraught with complexity (Walklate et al 2020). According to official court data for 2018, the Province of Buenos Aires had a femicide rate of 1.16 per 100,000-one of the lowest rates in Latin America (Corta de Suprema de Argentina 2019: 14).…”

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How Women’s Police Stations Empower Women, Widen Access to Justice and Prevent Gender Violence

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Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Women’s police stations are a distinctive innovation that emerged in postcolonial nations of the global south in the second half of the twentieth century to address violence against women. This article presents the results of a world-first study of the unique way that these stations, called Comisaría de la Mujer, prevent gender-based violence in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. One in five police stations in this Province was established with a mandate of preventing gender violence. Little is currently known about how this distinctive multidisciplinary model of policing (which includes social workers, lawyers, psychologists and police) widens access to justice to prevent gender violence. This article compares the model’s virtues and limitations to traditional policing models. We conclude that specialised women’s police stations in the postcolonial societies of the global south increase access to justice, empower women to liberate themselves from the subjection of domestic violence and prevent gender violence by challenging patriarchal norms that sustain it. As a by-product, these women’s police stations also offer women in the global south a career in law enforcement—one that is based on a gender perspective. The study is framed by southern criminology, which reverses the notion that ideas, policies and theories can only travel from the anglophone world of the global north to the global south.

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How Women’s Police Stations Empower Women, Widen Access to Justice and Prevent Gender Violence

Carrington

Guala

Puyol

et al. 2020

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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“…As an example, the Counting Dead Women Australia femicide census aims to count each death, however, this is constrained by the completeness of publicly available data. In contrast, fatality reviews have access to a wide variety of information drawn from the criminal justice process, including the police or courts, and unlike the femicide census and observatories, routinely access other information from service providers, family and friends (Walklate et al 2020). Thus, in theory, fatality reviews bring together rich sources of data to better understand the circumstances of homicides.…”

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“…In response to these deaths, various forms of 'counting' have emerged, including domestic violence fatality reviews and femicide watches or observatories (Dawson 2017;Price 2019;Walklate et al 2020). 1 Although there are considerable differences between these approaches, in different ways they offer an unflinching review of a homicide, an opportunity to honour those who have died, and to be clear about perpetrator accountability, as well as reflect on our own individual, community and social understandings and responses.…”

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Intersectionality and Invisible Victims: Reflections on Data Challenges and Vicarious Trauma in Femicide, Family and Intimate Partner Homicide Research

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Rigorous, comprehensive and timely research are the cornerstone of social and transformative change. For researchers responding to femicide, family and intimate partner homicide, there are substantial challenges around accessing robust data that is complete and fully representative of the experiences and social identities of those affected. This raises questions of how certain social identities are privileged and how the lens of intersectionality may be constrained or enabled through research. Further, there is limited insight into the emotional labour and safety for researchers, and how they experience and mitigate vicarious trauma. We examine these issues through a shared critical reflection and conclude with key recommendations to address the challenges and issues identified. Four researchers examining and responding to femicide, family and intimate partner homicide in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom shared and evaluated their critical reflection. We drew on our experiences and offer insights into processes, impacts and unintended consequences of fatality reviews and research initiatives. There are substantial limitations in accessibility and completeness of data, which has unintended consequences for the construction of social identities of those affected, including how multiple forms of exclusion and structural oppression are represented. Our experiences as researchers are complex and have driven us to implement strategies to mitigate vicarious trauma. We assert that these issues can be addressed by reconceptualizing the goals of data collection and fostering collaborative discussions among those involved in data collection and violence prevention to strengthen research, prevention efforts and safety for all involved.

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“…Distinctly from non-Indigenous women, they are as likely to be killed by a stranger as an intimate partner (Hargreaves, 2017). Walklate et al (2020) emphasise that intimate partner homicide is a significant risk for women worldwide and is a marker of gender inequality. Political and media attention focuses more on the threat of global (non-state) terrorism, which pales in comparison in terms of extent of victimisation.…”

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Violence takes many forms. It can be the infliction of physical pain and injury by one person towards another, but it also encompasses other harms-the violence of living in poverty or of being subjected to hate speech, for example. This chapter focuses on interpersonal violence between individuals, excluding sexual violence, which is discussed in Chapter 3. Interpersonal violence is not separate from other forms of violence. It is interrelated with state violence, which includes violence associated with law enforcement and immigration restriction, and structural violence, which refers to the harms of social inequality and the maldistribution of resources.Violence is central to securing political domination and to the maintenance of social hierarchies of race, gender, sexuality, class and nation (Collins, 2017). While acts of violence can be largescale and spectacular, violence is frequently embedded in the routine and everyday. Collins (1998Collins ( , 2017 analyses how different types of violence sustain social hierarchies in ways that are mutually supporting and constitutive. Racial dominance in the United States relies on spectacular, public violent events such as lynching and police brutality. It also relies on the routine violence of racist speech and the structural violence of discrimination

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Towards a Global Femicide Index

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How Women’s Police Stations Empower Women, Widen Access to Justice and Prevent Gender Violence

How Women’s Police Stations Empower Women, Widen Access to Justice and Prevent Gender Violence

Intersectionality and Invisible Victims: Reflections on Data Challenges and Vicarious Trauma in Femicide, Family and Intimate Partner Homicide Research

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