@article{ref1,
title="Forensic aspects analyzed in a case series of femicides",
journal="Clinica terapeutica",
year="2024",
author="Verrina, M. C. and Tarzia, P. and Sacco, M. A. and Raffaele, R. and Ricci, P. and Aquila, I.",
volume="175",
number="Suppl 2(4)",
pages="180-182",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Gender-based violence against women and its lethal outcome, femicide, represent important issues around the world. Although governments have passed specific laws, official data on gender-related violence and femicide are often absent and/or incomplete, difficult to access, rarely updated, contested and underestimated due to stigma, victim blaming or issues of legal interpretation. Femicide is an intentional killing in which a woman is murdered by an individual for misogyny and gender-related reasons. The most common type is in fact intimate femicide, which occurs when the murdered woman and the aggressor have an intimate, family, cohabitation or similar relationship. CASE SERIES: We analyzed 15 cases of femicide for which crime scene investigation and autopsy were carried out. For each case, a psychological autopsy was carried out and the means used to determine the individual's death were analysed. The circumstances in which the murder occurred were also examined. <br><br>DISCUSSION: Overkilling was evidenced in all cases analyzed. Over-killing in forensic medicine is known as a specific type of homicide in which the number of injuries inflicted far exceeds the number of injuries required to kill the victim. Therefore, the medico-legal management of the cases examined is complicated due to the multiple lesions present on the corpse on the victims which make difficult: 1) the reconstruction of the dynamics of the crime 2) the number of blows inflicted 3) the analysis of the fatal blow 4) the imputability of the offender.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0009-9074",
doi="10.7417/CT.2024.5111",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.7417/CT.2024.5111"
}