The term femicide itself is still unknown in our society, but it is clear that crimes in the category of intimate femicide, such as domestic violence, stalking, and dating violence, are common in our society.
The purpose of this study is to analyze th ...
The term femicide itself is still unknown in our society, but it is clear that crimes in the category of intimate femicide, such as domestic violence, stalking, and dating violence, are common in our society.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the types and characteristics of femicide crime by analyzing the theoretical discussions of femicide crime. In addition, we tried to test the influence of the media reports on the femicide on the public sentencing judgment through the scenario experiment method.
The main results of this study are as follows.
During the period from 2014 to 2016, four domestic newspapers reported that a total of 243 cases involving femicide crime. The relationship between the victim and the perpetrator was found to be the highest in 34.6% (84 cases) of the spouse and ex - spouse. In addition, most of the offenders in the murder case were male (97.9%, 238 cases). Among reports, 7.8% (19 cases) reported mental health problems and 2.5% (6 cases) mentions mental health problems, and 3.3% (8 cases) reported physical health problems ).
In 53.9% (131 cases) of the entire report, it was reported that the victim 's triggering act or the victim' s interaction with the offender caused the murder.
It was confirmed that the reports on the affair of the victim and the obsession with the perpetrator were 4.5% (11 cases) of the total.
As a result of analyzing the situation factors, 4.9% (12 cases) mentioned the victim 's request for rescue, which means informing police or acquaintance about the victim' s violence. It is reported that 9.5% (23 cases) reported that there was a violent incident before the murder case between the perpetrator and the victim.
About 8.2 percent (20 cases) reported articles related to social problems rather than personal injury. 6.6% (16 cases) reported that there was stalking activity.
On the other hand, to examine the effects of the media reports on sentencing, we conducted a scenario experiment with 'victim blame high / low' and 'perpetrator high / low'.
As a result of the experiment, in the victim blame scenarios, the only possibility of moral accusation against crime was significant among the dependent variables. In other words, it was confirmed that the average of 'victim blame high' group was 4.41 and that of 'low’ group was 5.17, which indicates that the low group is more likely to blame for criminal behavior than the high group. On the other hand, 'perpetrator defense low group' showed higher average than 'perpetrator defense high group' about the sentencing, seriousness of crime, possibility of moral criticism. Also, these group differences were found to be significant.
The results of this study can be used as empirical evidence to suggest guidelines for femicide - related news reports and to prepare institutional devices and educational materials to remove the influence of media reports before trial. In addition, I expect to expand the theoretical discussion of domestic femicide research and revitalize related research.