Convegno Scientifico - Istat Aula Magna - Roma, 28 marzo 2017 La violenza sulle donne: i dati e gli strumenti per la conoscenza statistica

1. The killing of women in the context of
global homicides
Convegno scientifico - La violenza sulle donne:
i dati e gli strumenti per la conoscenza statistica
Angela Me
Chief Research and Trend Analysis Branch
Roma, 28 marzo 2017

2. Homicide
• Homicide is the ‘ultimate crime’ with grave
consequences for individuals and society
• Homicide statistics provide a proxy indicator
for other types of violent crime
• The quality and availability of homicide data
are far superior to data on most other types of
crime
• The level of comparability of homicide data
between countries is greater than for most
other types of crime

3. Who is at risk?
• 79% of homicide victims are male
• 95% of homicide perpetrators are male

4. But…..Women are victims of partner
and family violence
Women are the most frequent victims
of intimate partner violence and they
are often killed by family members in
all countries and across all cultures

5. Intimate partner/family-related homicide (IPFM)
• Greater intensity in Americas (higher
rate), larger share of all homicides in
Asia, Europe, Oceania
• 2/3 of all victims are female
• 47% of all female victims of homicide are
killed by these perpetrators
• Those most at risk: women aged 30+

6. IPFM in 2012
:
• Total female victims of homicide:
93,000
• Total female victims of IPFM
homicide : 43,600
47% of all female victims killed
by their intimate partners or
family members
(Compared to 6% of all male
victims killed by IPFM)

9. Femicide, a bad habit hard to eradicate:
IPFM rather stable overtime, despite other forms of
homicidal and male violence can show remarkable
decreases

13. The majority of female homicide victims are murdered
by people who are expected to care for them, the
majority of men are killed by people they may not
know

14. Home is the place where a woman is at highest
risk of being killed

15. IPFM Homicide: an indicator to monitor the tip of
the iceberg of VAW
But an indicator which can quite easily be regularly monitored
over time

16. The ICCS: a hierarchical framework that groups
and organizes criminal offences meaningfully
and systematically.
It allows to:
o Build a comprehensive stat. framework on all criminal
offences to facilitate analysis of crime
o Improve comparability across countries and through time
o Improve data consistency within countries:
• across entities in federal states
• across data produced by successive stages of criminal justice process
• across sources (admin. data and surveys)
International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes
(ICCS)

17. Additional attributes
Disaggregating variables:
• Event descriptions: Use of weapon, location, organised crime,
attempted/completed
• Victim descriptions: natural person (age, sex, age status, citizenship), legal
entity/business (economic sector), public entity
• Perpetrator descriptions: ages, sex, age status, citizenship, victim-
perpetrator relationship
Data descriptions (Metadata):
• Inclusion of threats, aiding, accomplice, conspiracy, incitament

18. Additional disaggregations

19. An example of the impact of the ICCS

20. An example of the impact of the ICCS

21. By defining and better developing
statistics to measure femicide,
violence against women can be
brought to light, and data can then be
used to influence policy and programs
to respond to and prevent violence.
Thank you for your attention.