INTIMATE PARTNER HOMICIDE in EUROPE Findings from the European Homicide Monitor
Marieke Liem - i.c.w. Janne Kivivuori, Mar5 Leh7 & Sven Granath
Today Concept Dataset
Femicide vs IPH Prac7cal Limita7ons European Homicide Monitor
Findings What’s next
Trends and Cases Vic7ms Perpetrators Comparability through EHM
Today Concept Dataset
Femicide vs IPH Prac7cal Limita7ons European Homicide Monitor
Findings What’s next
Trends and Cases Vic7ms Perpetrators Comparability through EHM
Femicide vs InAmate Partner Homicide Femicide “Killing of women because of their gender” i. Differen7al use of mo7ve ii. Poli7cally charged iii. False posi7ves and false nega7ves
InAmate Partner Homicide
Most prevalent type of homicide involving female vic7ms
ExisAng Datasets
Cause-of-Death Sta7s7cs Court Data
Police Sta7s7cs
Newspaper Data
Overcoming PracAcal LimitaAons European Homicide Monitor
i. Similar legal codes Murder, manslaughter, infan7cide, assault leading to death ii. Joint homicide database Finland, The Netherlands, Sweden
iii. 85 variables
Homicide vic7m, perpetrator and event variables
Overcoming PracAcal LimitaAons iv. Allowing for case-based (Ame and space), perpetrator-based and vicAm-based analyses 2003-2006 2009-2014
Today Concept Dataset
Femicide vs IPH Prac7cal Limita7ons European Homicide Monitor
Findings What’s next
Cases Vic7ms Perpetrators Comparability through EHM
Considerable variaAon in rates 21 29
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Cases: Mostly one-on-one
Number of victims
Cases: Mostly one-on-one
Number of perpetrators
Cases: DomesAc crime scene
Cases: Urban vs Rural
Cases: M.O. mostly knives
VicAms: Vast majority is female
Gender victim
VicAms: Age peaks in late 30s and 40s
Perpetrators: Vast majority is male
Gender perpetrator
Perpetrators: Age peaks in late 40s
Majority male-female conflicts
Who kills whom?
Suicide (a\empts) in about one third
Revenge, separaAon and trivialiAes
Country-specific role of alcohol
What’s next? Concept Dataset
Femicide vs IPH Prac7cal Limita7ons European Homicide Monitor
Findings What’s next
Cases Vic7ms Perpetrators Comparability through EHM
Marieke Liem Violence Research Ini7a7ve Leiden University
[email protected] www.violenceresearchini7a7ve.org
