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Anales de Psicología
On-line version ISSN 1695-2294Print version ISSN 0212-9728
Abstract
BERMUDEZ, María Paz and MELENDEZ-DOMINGUEZ, Montserrat. Epidemiological analysis of gender violence in the European Union. Anal. Psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.36, n.3, pp.380-385. Epub Dec 21, 2020. ISSN 1695-2294. https://dx.doi.org/10.6018/analesps.36.3.428611.
There is a great regional heterogeneity and ignorance of the current gender violence (GV) situation in the different countries of the European Union (EU-28). The aim of this paper is to determine the current prevalence of GV and femicides in the EU-28 and in Spain in particular. This study consists of an observational descriptive study (document analysis) which selects and analyses data belonging to the different modalities of GV and femicides in the EU-28 countries. Latvia, Denmark, United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Slovakia and Luxembourg possess higher rates than the EU average in all types of GV while Finland, Hungary, Northern Ireland and Latvia possess higher incidences rates in femicide. With respect to Spain, 0.13% of women were victims of GV and 2.3 femicides per year occur for every 1.000.000 women, with Spain being among the countries with the lowest rates. It is therefore concluded that psychological abuse is the most prevalent within the EU-28, however, it is difficult to compare said data from different countries due to the lack of a common legal conceptualisation of GV.
Keywords : Gender-based violence; European Union; Epidemiology; Femicide.