Femicide

Kate Fitz-Gibbon a Professor (Practice) with the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University in Australia and an Honorary Professorial Fellow with the Melbourne Law School. Kate is an international research leader in the area of femicide, responses to violence against women and children, perpetrator interventions, and the impacts of policy and practice reform.Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK. She has an ongoing adjunct professorial role at QUT in Brisbane, Australia, is a Research Associate at the University of West Virginia Center for Violence Research and Visiting Professor (Violence and Society Research Centre), City University. She is internationally recognised for her work in victimology, criminal victimisation, and violence against women.

• Introduction: Defining, counting, preventing femicide; Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sandra Walklate Part One. Rendering femicide visible Chapter 1. Counting femicides across the European Union; Cristina Fabre Rosell and Eneidia Bardho Chapter 2. Change, intimacy, and relationships: Implications for measuring intimate and non-intimate femicide; Caroline Miles, Elizabeth A. Cook, and Merili Pullerits Chapter 3. Counting women’s deaths ‘with’ male violence and ‘from’ male violence: Lessons from the pandemic death counting practices; Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sandra Walklate Part Two. Rendering femicide knowable: reflections on practice Chapter 4. Finding the victim’s voice in fatality reviews; Negar Katirai Chapter 5. Eliminating femicide: The role of expert domestic and family violence evidence in the coronial investigation process; Heather DouglasChapter 6. Domestic abuse-related death reviews in England and wales: Establishment, practices, and change; James Rowlands Part Three. Rendering femicide preventable Chapter 7. Coroners, femicide and the politics of preventability; Rebecca Scott Bray Chapter 8. Intimate femicide, technology, and domestic and family violence; Bridget Harris Chapter 9. Suicide and femicide: Rendering histories of violence visible in women’s deaths from suicide; Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Stefani Vasil Chapter 10. ‘Boundary objects’ and ‘black boxes’: Theory informed prevention for femicide; Sandra Walklate Conclusion: Looking to the future, learning from the past; Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sandra Walklate

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