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Expert opinions on improving femicide data collection across Europe: A concept mapping study
Carmen Vives-Cases, Isabel Goicolea, Alison Hernández, Belen Sanz-Barbero, Aisha K. Gill, Anna Costanza Baldry, Monika Schröttle, Heidi Stoeckl
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Once in place, the evidence produced can contribute to increased public awareness and demand for a public health sector response, as done with IPV, as well as providing concrete information on risk factors and risk groups to guide police, legal, educational, and political forces in development of prevention strategies and services.
Actions to improve data collection on femicide across European countries include:
(1) Institutionalizing a national database on femicide;
(2) Agreeing on a minimum set of variables that have to be collected in each case; and
(3) Investing in the training of those professionals who are in charge of collecting the data.
The implementation and sustainment of a data collection system requires a firm political commitment, in addition to technical data collection.