The article “Sexual and non-sexual femicide in South Africa: Comparing two studies 2009 and 2017”, written by Naeemah Abrahams, Shibe Mhlongo, and Esnat Chirwa, discusses how the two studies illustrate the demographic of victims, perpetrators, and characteristics of the crime. They compare the 2009 study with the 2017 study that both used random sampling of the laboratories that obtained the forensic findings. They also obtained sexual femicide from police reports and autopsies, and found that an estimated 451 sexual homicides were reported in 2009 and 210 were reported in 2017. Therefore, their finding was that sexual femicides decreased from 19.1% to 8.7%, which is an over half decrease. Although there was a decrease, they also found that the amount of younger women falling victim to femicide were increasing, especially those living in rural areas and having strangers be the perpetrators. Findings show that they need documentation of sexual femicides where there are high levels of gender-based violence. The authors argue that this will contribute to the development of theory-based prevention strategies. 

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