ArticleInternational journal of legal medicine2019
The medicolegal, psycho-criminological, and epidemiological reality of intimate partner and non-intimate partner femicide in North-West Italy: looking backwards to see forwards.
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- Intimate partner femicide, understanding perpetrator behaviour: a cross-cultural analytical review of weapon choice, injury patterns, and cultural-criminological insights.International journal of legal medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Patterns of femicide: a 17-year comparative forensic analysis of intimate and non-intimate partner cases.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2026Article
- Violence against women in North-East Piedmont, Italy: a cross-sectional study on patients accessing the emergency department (2017-2020).International journal of legal medicine · 2026Article
- From desire to destruction: addiction, jealousy, and mental disorder in an Italian femicide case.Forensic sciences research · 2025Article
- Psychological mechanisms of revenge and revenge ideations in family homicide: results from qualitative research of forensic assessment reports.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Femicide Circumstances and Harmfulness: Case Report and Focusing Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The epidemiological and medico-legal characteristics of violent deaths and spousal homicides through a population of women autopsied within the Forensic Medicine Department of the University Hospital of Annaba.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- Sexual femicide, non-sexual femicide and rape: Where do the differences lie? A continuum in a pattern of violence against women.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- First Surveillance of Violence against Women during COVID-19 Lockdown: Experience from "Niguarda" Hospital in Milan, Italy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Antenatal and Postpartum Depression: Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors among Adolescents' in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Depression research and treatment · 2020Article
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Abstract
This paper addresses femicide in Italy. The assumption is that femicide is not a discrete act of killing a woman. It is assumed that depending on the types of relationship between the victim and the perpetrator (e.g., known versus unknown, intimate versus acquaintance), the risk processes may differ. When femicide involves the killing of an intimate partner, it is likely to be characterized by sustained and escalating intimate partner violence (IPV) that can reach its climax with extreme acts of violence that lead to intimate partner femicide (IPF). Eighty-six cases of femicide that occurred in North-West Italy between 1993 and 2013 were examined in this study. Findings suggest that femicide was disproportionately perpetrated by intimate partners (current or past), rather than strangers. IPF was likely to be the epilogue of an abusive relationship, with high levels of contentiousness and conflicts being the frequent significant precursors. Non-intimate partner femicide (NPF) was more likely to be characterized by antisocial or predatory motives, highly frequent when the victims were prostitutes.These preliminary findings suggest that joint scientific, professional, and political efforts are paramount in order to address strategies aimed at assessing the differential risk of IPV early in time so as to prevent it from escalating into IPF or NPF and to provide the appropriate support for victims and their families.
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