SOCB49H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Femicide, Northern Ontario, 8 Women
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Woman killing: intimate femicide in ontario, 1974 1994. People who killed were more likely separated from their partners, in common-law relationships, and were aboriginals. Men who killed their intimate partners were more likely to be unemployed and have histories of criminal violence. Framework views intimate femicide as the manifestation of extreme controlling and proprietary attitudes and behaviours by men toward their female partners. Distinctiveness of two types of killings usually obscured in studies that treat intimate partner killings by men and women. Intimate femicides are more likely to involve extreme/sexualized violence, motivated by anger over separation accompanied by killings of additional victims. 1974 & 1994 killings by intimate partners accounted for 63% - 76% of all women. March 1988 younger mother of two was killed by estranged husband northern: husband visited wide staying in a shelter for abused women, convinced she. January 1989 8 women came together and created a group named women we.
