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FEMINICIDE INTIME [1 record]

Record 1 2024-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Offences and crimes
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Social Problems
CONT

In an extensive analysis of homicide in diverse cultures, Daly and Wilson (1988) identify male partner jealousy, possessiveness, and desire to control female partners as important precursors for intimate femicide worldwide. This led them to conclude that "sexual proprietariness" is an evolved manifestation of masculinity that interacts with cultural context to produce variations in male violence against women. Violence manifests itself in situations that represent loss of male control over the female partner, such as infidelity (real or imagined) or victim-instigated separation, which trigger extreme jealousy, possessiveness, and morbid rage ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Problèmes sociaux
OBS

féminicide intime : désignation normalisée par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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