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Exploring the data on femicide across Europe
In recent years, the notion of femicide has expanded in social,
criminological and epidemiological research to grasp the basic
differences underpinning the killing of a female, as opposed to
a male, victim. While femicide research in Australia and the
US has been a consolidated trend in criminology and feminist
studies since the 1990s (Stout, 1992; Mouzos, 1999; Campbell
et al, 2003; Frye et al, 2005), its development in Europe has
been much more recent and represents the outcome, primarily,
of top-down social pressure. The combined effect of the recent
proceedings of the ‘Femicide across Europe’ COST network
(active in 30 European countries from 2013 to 2017), together
with awareness-raising by the media in many countries and the
Resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly
on 11 February 2014 (United Nations, 2014), inter alia, have
acted as catalysts for change, contributing significantly to
fostering femicide research in Europe. An extensive analysis of
the definition of femicide is presented in Chapter 2 of this book.peer-reviewe