Department of Psychology, University of Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', 81100 Caserta, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Oct 29;17(21):7953. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17217953.
Femicide is a wide-spread lethal form of violence against women. Despite its diffusion, to date, very few studies analyzed possible victims' age differences in regard to fatal risk factors for femicide. To this aim, we carried out archive research on Italian femicide cases in the last decade, by comparing prior types of violence suffered and motives for femicide, which are considered crucial fatal risk factors for femicide, across adolescent/young (15-24 years), adults (25-64 years) and older women (65-93 years). From 2010 to 2019 we found 1207 female victims. Characteristics of victims, perpetrators, and their relationship were consistent with those found by international studies and underlined that the majority of femicides were perpetrated by an intimate partner. The results regarding fatal risk factors comparisons across age groups showed the existence of significant differences regarding both types of violence suffered prior to femicide and motives for femicide. The results are discussed in terms of policy implication and intervention.
女性杀人是一种广泛存在的针对女性的致命暴力形式。尽管它很普遍，但迄今为止，很少有研究分析过可能的受害者在女性杀人的致命风险因素方面的年龄差异。为此，我们对过去十年意大利的女性杀人案例进行了档案研究，通过比较先前遭受的暴力类型和女性杀人的动机，这些因素被认为是女性杀人的关键致命风险因素，跨越青少年/年轻（15-24 岁）、成年（25-64 岁）和老年妇女（65-93 岁）。在 2010 年至 2019 年期间，我们发现了 1207 名女性受害者。受害者、犯罪者及其关系的特征与国际研究发现的一致，并强调大多数女性杀人案是由亲密伴侣实施的。关于不同年龄组之间致命风险因素比较的结果表明，在先前遭受的暴力类型和女性杀人的动机方面存在显著差异。结果从政策意义和干预措施方面进行了讨论。
