femicide + gender based violence

domestic homicide

killing or an individual within a domestic or familial context

intimate partner homicide

killing of an individual by their current or former intimate partner

femicide

killing of women because they are women

feminicide

state and insitution complicity in femicide

emotions of femicide perpetrators

fear, helplessness, pain, anger

fear

women as a threat

women as a threat

being at the mercy of women

pain

feeling emotionally hurt by women

anger

bodily reactions and losing control

femicide: social isolation and breaking up bonds

fights and conflict, convince, neutralisation and rationalisation

femicide: vilifying perceived external enemies

weaken places of socialisation and change dynamics

femicide: targeting the body

strategies to control the body and locking in

femicide: blocking access to labor market

keeping women out of the workplace

femicide: blocking access to healthcare

restriction to healthcare

emicide: strengthening bonds with peers

legitimation of IPV

affective economies (Di Marco)

emotions create societies and create a social order including gender, intimate relationships, and sexuality

DiMarco theoretical framework

Employing sociology of emotions perspective to understand the femicide perpetrators’ experiences help reveal the social processes underlying the violence 

role of emotions in femicide (DiMarco)

emotions foster social actions that are both based on and reproduce the existing gender order

understanding intimate partner violence (Gill et al.)

requires understanding the social context, socioeconomic status, and the role of power and control

conventional view of IPV (Gill et al.)

focus on physical violence

progressive view of IPV (Gill et al.)

understanding the complexity of the issue

Gill et al. main argument

police officers views of IPV impact their responsibility to arrest and their actions

feminist perspective of IPH

gender, power, control, and patriarchy are critical to understanding IPH

evolutionary perspective of IPH

male sexual proprietariness, natural selection, male reproductive success 

sociological/ criminology perspective of IPH

individual behavior is affected by individual’s characteristics, their relationships and communities 

the social ecological model for violence prevention (Graham et al,)

violence prevention at the individual, relationship, cummnity and societal level