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A Study of Femicide in Turkey From 2010 to 2017

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ID3363014
AuthorsGüneş Koç (Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume12
Issue3
Publication date2022-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSAGE Open (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/21582440221119831
OpenAlexW4293538602
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited92

This paper presents a Turkey-wide analysis of 1,000 femicide cases, collected from 100 newspapers between 2010 and 2017. The study seeks to contribute to the international femicide literature by highlighting the background and reasons for these murders, as characterized by the newspapers. The methodology involved frequency and chi-square analysis of the data retrieved from 100 newspapers collected from the homepage of kadincinayetleri.org. The study reveals that a woman's intimate partner is the perpetrator in the highest number of femicide cases. The most common motives for femicides in international micro-level studies are (1) possessiveness and jealousy and (2) loss, separation, or divorce. The present study found these to be the first- and third-highest motives for femicide in Turkey. The motives of femicides can be interpreted in the macro-level analysis as women's resistance to men's domination; their demand for control over women escalates to murdering the woman as a form of backlash

Criminology · Domestic violence · Environmental health · Femicide · Jealousy · Newspaper · Poison control · Political science · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology

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