IT is the worst call on Roll: To mark International Women’s Day, the names of women killed by men last year are read in the House of Commons by Jess Phillips MP, who is now the minister for violence against women and women. This year the number stood at 95. This was accompanied by a report by the Charity Femicide Census that released the characteristics of 2,000 murder of women of men since 2009 in which the justice proceedings were completed.
Charity accumulates a list year -time, and without this important work, based on the freedom of police information requests and extensive media monitoring, we do not have a national administration of the number of women known to be killed by men in the UK. Since 2009, it has been worth one every three days on average. And these are the only cases we know about; The campaign team killed women who were estimated to have as many as 130 “hidden homicides” a year in which a woman was killed by a partner or family member but the death was recorded as accidental or suicide.
Men’s violence against women and girls is the most toxic symptom of a riven patriarchal society with inequality -equivalent to gender. In recent decades, despite some important changes, it has been very small to address the plague of men in physical and emotional abuse of women and children.
Data shows that the most dangerous place for these women is behind closed doors: for seven of the 10 women killed by men, this occurs in their own home. Six out of 10 were killed by their partners; Almost one of their children’s 10; Only 9% were killed by a stranger.
The work of criminologist Dr Jane Monckton Smith found that men do not kill women they know out of blue: almost always a femicide pattern that includes a pre-relationship history of seizure or abuse; a romance that quickly develops in a serious relationship managed by coercive control; a trigger that threatens male control, such as a threat to abandon the relationship or end of the relationship; and a resulting increase in his control, such as stalking or suicide threats.
The patterns of this behavior mean that such murder should be prevented. However we still have a criminal justice system that – despite recent reforms – sometimes allowed men to kill women to light the treated by asking for a man’s murder based on loss of control.
The Femicide Census argues that it appears to be forming “a state -combined state where former violent men may limit their responsibility to deadly acts”. In many cases reviewed in the report, the qualified trigger for a loss of control is the victim who leaves a abusive relationship or entering a new relationship. The most dangerous moment for a victim is the point where he left his partner with the man, or indicates a desire to leave. It is twisted that this aspect of the law appears in practice to make allowances for men who kill women who use their right to leave a abusive and violent relationship. And it is very small to be spent tracking men with a well -known history of violence against women, including known repeated offenders.
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The Labor government has an ambitious target to stop male violence against women and women. But it has yet to determine what will be a success against it, just let it set a properly resourced plan to keep women and children safe from dangerous men who kill. Only the femicide rate can drop.
