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Chapter 25: Femicide in the United Kingdom

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This chapter begins with the failure of the state in the UK to name and address the issue of femicide. It looks at the history of the term femicide, first used in the UK more than 200 years ago and key texts preceding the launch of the Femicide Census in 2015. The chapter looks at some of the findings from the Femicide Census’ 10-year Report ‘If I’m not in Friday, I might be dead,’ analysing 1,425 femicides in the UK between 2009 and 2018, including the relationships between victims and perpetrators, ages of victims and perpetrators, and the paucity of data returned regarding ethnicity in Freedom of Information responses from the police.  The Femicide Census’s findings on methods of violence used to kill, overkill, defilement of the body and locations of femicides are summarised.  Available data on the prevalence and length of separation prior to intimate partner femicides and perpetrators’ histories of violence against women are addressed. Findings on femicides of women involved in prostitution in the context of femicide and the sex industry are discussed. Perpetrator outcomes are briefly presented.  The chapter concludes with a call for an integrated analysis of men’s violence against women.

 

 


 

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