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femicide  

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  • Femicide, the murder of women, is a leading cause of premature death in the United States for women. Women in the United States are murdered by intimate partners (husband, boyfriend) or former partners approximately nine times more often than by strangers. [Source: Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention; Femicide]

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