Fatal intimate partner violence against women in Portugal: a forensic medical national study

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an important cause of women's health and socio-familial severe problems, the most extreme being the victims' homicide. This is the first nationwide Portuguese autopsy-based and judicial-proven study about female intimate partner homicide. At least 62 wome...

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Main Author: Pereira, Ana Rita (author)
Other Authors: Vieira, Duarte Nuno (author), Magalhães, Teresa (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10316/24591
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:estudogeral.sib.uc.pt:10316/24591