Theoretical explanations and criminal policy implications

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

This round table explores trends in femicide amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, presenting diverse theoretical frameworks for understanding these trends, along with new data from around the globe.

The discussants are authors in the special issue organised by Marcelo F Aebi and Lorena Molnar '' Trends in Intimate Partner Homicide during the COVID-19 pandemic: Theoretical explanations and criminal policy implications'' in the journal Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. Discussants' contributions are as follows:

1) Intimate partner violence, femicide, and general theories: issues for research and policy from the view of Modern Control Theory, by Michael R. Gottfredson and Mikaela S. Nielsen

2) Intimate partner abuse during the Covid-19 pandemic: a Situational Action Theory analysis, by Kyle Treiber

3) Understanding Intimate Partner Femicide and Attempted Intimate Partner Femicide During and After COVID-19: A Comprehensive Strain-Based Approach by Olga Cunha, Sónia Caridade and Rui Abrunhosa Gonçalves

4) Femicide and COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining the Situation in Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Slovenia, by Rok Hacin and Gorazd Meško

5) Femicide and domestic violence against women during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic – the Israeli case by Limor Yehuda and Irit Ein-Tal

6) Global and regional estimates of female intimate partner and family-related homicide, by Maurice Dunaiski, Camelia Abdelgelil, Andrada-Maria Filip, Natalia Ivanova, David Rausis, Sonya Yee, and Angela Me

Subtopic

• Topic 1: Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Behavior / Theoretical and Epistemological debates in Criminology (Crime, Science and Politics WG)

Chairs

• Marcelo F. Aebi, University of Lausanne

• Lorena Molnar, University of Lausanne

Discussants

• Michael Gottfredson, University of California, Irvine

• Mikaela Sky Nielsen, University of California, Irvine

• Kyle Treiber, University of Cambridge

• Rok Hacin, University of Maribor

• Gorazd Meško, University of Maribor

• Olga Cunha, Lusófona University of Porto, Portugal

• Rui Abrunhosa Gonçalves, Universidade do Minho

• Sõnia Maria Martins Caridade, Escola de Psicologia da Universidade do Minho

• Maurice Dunaiski, UNODC

• Limor Yehuda, Ashkelon Academic College