Does women's empowerment protect women from violence? A test of political and economic empowerment on female homicide rates and victim ratios in comparative international perspective, 1990–2021
European Journal of Criminology
Published online on July 01, 2026
Abstract
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Using indicators of women’s empowerment from the Varieties of Democracy data and female homicide rates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project on mortality due to injuries sustained from interpersonal violence, this study finds that higher levels ...
Using indicators of women’s empowerment from the Varieties of Democracy data and female homicide rates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project on mortality due to injuries sustained from interpersonal violence, this study finds that higher levels ...