Femicide in the United States: a call for legal codification and national surveillance

Patricia C Lewis; Nadine J Kaslow; Yuk Fai Cheong; Dabney P Evans; Kathryn M Yount

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1338548

Femicide in the United States: a call for legal codification and national surveillance

Front Public Health. 2024 Feb 28:12:1338548. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1338548. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Patricia C Lewis¹, Nadine J Kaslow², Yuk Fai Cheong³, Dabney P Evans⁴, Kathryn M Yount⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Sciences, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, United States.
² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
³ Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
⁴ Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
⁵ Hubert Department of Global Health, Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: United States; femicide; gender; homicide; intimate partner violence (IPV); violence against women (VAW).

MeSH terms

Female
Gender-Based Violence*
Homicide*
Humans
United States

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This commentary is based on work supported by an Emory Woodruff Health Sciences Center Synergy Award (98561 PI: KY and co-PI: NK).