RT Article
T1 Cross-National Examination of the Relationship Between Gender Equality and Female Homicide and Rape Victimization
JF Violence against women
VO 27
IS 10
SP 1796
OP 1819
A1 Chon, Donsoo
A2 Clifford, Janice E.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1761550586
AB This study is the first cross-national work to examine the impact of gender equality on both female homicide and rape victimization. The data set from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) was analyzed for 70 countries. Several gender equality measures were significantly and positively related to rape victimization, but were mostly not significant to female homicide. Findings for rape victimization were consistent with the backlash hypothesis, but such findings may be related to the limitations of police rape rates, such as different legal definitions and police-reporting behaviors across countries.
K1 Cross-national study
K1 rape victimization
K1 female homicide victimization
K1 gender-related development index
K1 Gender Equality
DO 10.1177/1077801220954283