Towards a Global Femicide Index (PDF)

Professor Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool (UK), Professor of Criminology at Monash University (Australia), and adjunct professor at QUT (Brisbane, Australia). Internationally recognised for her work in victimology and research on criminal victimization, her recent publications include: A Criminology of War? (2019, with R. McGarry); Crime and Emotions: Towards a Criminology of Emotions (2019, edited collection with M. Hviid-Jacobsen); and Intimate Partner Violence, Risk and Security (2018, edited with Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Jude McCulloch, and JaneMaree Maher). She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology, and in 2014 she was given the British Society of Criminology's outstanding achievement award.

Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University (Australia) and Lead Researcher in the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. Her research examines family violence, the law of homicide, and the impact of criminal law reform across Australian and international jurisdictions. This research has been undertaken with a focus on gender, responsibility, and justice. Dr Fitz-Gibbon has advised on homicide law and family violence reform in several Australian and international jurisdictions. Recent publications include Intimate Partner Violence, Risk and Security (2018, edited with Sandra Walklate, Jude McCulloch, and JaneMaree Maher); Homicide, Gender and Responsibility: An International Perspective (2016, edited with Sandra Walklate); Homicide Law Reform in Victoria: Retrospect and Prospects (2015, edited with Arie Freiberg); and Homicide Law Reform, Gender and the Provocation Defence (2014).