Femicide and Attempted Femicide before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile
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2022-07-01
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en
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CC BY 4.0 DEED
Atribución 4.0 Internacional
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Abstract
Experts and international organizations hypothesize that the number of cases of fatal intimate partner violence against women increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily due to social distancing strategies and the implementation of lockdowns to reduce the spread of the virus. We described cases of attempted femicide and femicide in Chile before (January 2014 to February 2020) and during (March 2020 to June 2021) the pandemic. The attempted-femicide rate increased during the pandemic (incidence rate ratio: 1.22 [95% confidence interval: 1.04 to 1.43], p value: 0.016), while the rate of femicide cases remained unchanged. When a comparison between attempted-femicide and femicide cases was performed, being a foreigner, having an intimate partner relationship with a perpetrator aged 40 years or more, and the use of firearms during the assault were identified as factors associated independently with a higher probability of being a fatal victim in Chile. In conclusion, this study emphasizes that attempted femicide and femicide continued to occur frequently in family contexts both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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Keywords
COVID-19, Femicide, Risk factors, Violence against women
Citation
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 19, Issue 13, July-1 2022, Article number 8012
DOI
10.3390/ijerph19138012