Violence against women: femicide

Authors

  • Angelita Maria Ferreira Machado Rios Perita médica-legista, Departamento Médico-Legal de Porto Alegre, Instituto Geral de Perícias do Rio Grande do Sul (IGPRS), Porto Alegre, RS. Mestre em Psicologia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, RS. Doutoranda, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psiquiatria e Ciências do Comportamento, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS.
  • Pedro Vieira da Silva Magalhães Professor, Departamento de Psiquiatria e Medicina Legal, Faculdade de Medicina, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS. Professor, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psiquiatria e Ciências do Comportamento, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS. Pós-doutorado pela UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS.
  • Lisieux E. de Borba Telles Professora, Departamento de Psiquiatria e Medicina Legal, Faculdade de Medicina, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS. Docente, Maestría en Salud Mental Forense, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), La Plata, Argentina. Doutora em Medicina pela UNLP, La Plata, Argentina. Coordenadora, Departamento de Ética e Psiquiatria Legal, Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4105-5924

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25118/2763-9037.2019.v9.60

Keywords:

Intimate partner violence, homicide, forensic psychiatry

Abstract

Violence against women is considered a public health problem that affects people in all age groups and fromall socioeconomic and cultural strata. Aggression by an intimate partner may involve physical, psychological, sexual, property, and moral violence, and is often part of a repetitive pattern. Usually, prior to femicide, threats, blackmail, assaults and police complaints occur. Femicide is one of the main causes of premature death among females, occurring as a universal phenomenon with different peculiarities across countries. Several risk factors may be associated with femicide, such as: immigrant or ethnic minority women, unemployed partner or expartner, no legal relationship status, presence of children from previous relationships, women initiating breakup, prior violence in the relationship or during pregnancy, jealousy, age difference between partners and alcohol/drug consumption by the abuser, victim or both. In recent years, advances have been made in Brazilian criminal law in response to violence against women in the family setting, and femicide has been legislated upon in recent Law no. 13,104, of March 9, 2015. The change in legislation is a positive step forward; together with protective measures in the areas of public health and safety, it could provide future generations with a society in which gender differences are respected. It is the role of
psychiatrists to act in the detection of this phenomenon, suggesting public policy actions that include evaluation and assistance to those involved.

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Rios AMFM, Magalhães PV da S, Telles LE de B. Violence against women: femicide. Debates em Psiquiatria [Internet]. 2019 Jun. 28 [cited 2025 Mar. 10];9(2):38-42. Available from: https://revistardp.org.br/revista/article/view/60

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