The drop in female homicide victimisation in Australia

IF 1.5 3区 社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY
W. Forrest
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Abstract

Despite widespread community concern about the incidence of lethal violence against women in Australia, the numbers and rates of women murdered each year have been falling for almost 30 years. The risk of homicide victimisation among Australian women is now the lowest it has ever been since federation. Few studies have explored these patterns or sought to explain their development. One plausible explanation, anticipated by feminist theories of violence, is that homicide has declined as the status of women and gender equality have increased. In this paper, I analyse changes in the annual female homicide victimisation rate in Australia from 1962 to 2016. Using unobserved components models, I investigate the extent to which increases in either the status of women or gender equality can account for the decline in female homicide victimisation since the late 1980s. Despite absolute and relative advances in women's educational access and achievement, labour force participation, and earnings, those changes had little discernible impact on the aggregate-level risk of lethal violence against women. Instead, other social and economic conditions, such as falling unemployment, the shrinking of the young male population and ongoing urbanisation, seem better able to explain recent improvements in women's safety.
澳大利亚女性凶杀案受害人数下降
尽管澳大利亚社会普遍关注针对妇女的致命暴力事件,但近30年来,每年被谋杀的妇女人数和比率一直在下降。澳大利亚妇女被谋杀的风险现在是联邦成立以来最低的。很少有研究探索这些模式或试图解释它们的发展。女权主义暴力理论预测的一个合理解释是,随着女性地位和性别平等的提高,凶杀率下降了。在本文中,我分析了1962年至2016年澳大利亚年度女性凶杀受害率的变化。使用未观察到的成分模型,我调查了自20世纪80年代末以来,妇女地位或性别平等的提高在多大程度上可以解释女性凶杀受害者人数的下降。尽管妇女在受教育机会和成就、劳动力参与和收入方面取得了绝对和相对的进步,但这些变化对妇女遭受致命暴力的总体风险几乎没有明显的影响。相反,其他社会和经济条件,如失业率下降、年轻男性人口减少和正在进行的城市化,似乎更能解释最近女性安全状况的改善。
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Journal of Criminology
Journal of Criminology CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-
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