Violence Against Women

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Violence Against Women is written by Kathryn Roberts and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1534504079 (ISBN 10) and 9781534504073 (ISBN 13).

Annually, approximately 66,000 women are violently killed in countries around the world. While historically these crimes were grouped into the general category of homicide, femicide, the murder of women because of their gender, is now being recognized as a unique issue and a hate crime. However, some assert that the fact that 80 percent of murder victims are male suggests that the issue of femicide is being blown out of proportion. This volume explores the forms femicide takes around the world and potential means of combatting it, and discusses the varying perspectives on the usefulness of its categorization.