Victims of Homicides committed by Women in the Republic of North Macedonia

Stanojoska, Angelina and Jurtoska, Julija (2021) Victims of Homicides committed by Women in the Republic of North Macedonia. Conference Proceedings.

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Abstract

What is the purpose of the study? In the Republic of North Macedonia, until
the beginning of our research, to our knowledge, victims of homicides
committed by women have not been a point of interest of the criminological
and victimological thought.
Why victims of homicides committed by women? The importance of such
studies is to be found into the analysis of women’s quality of life. Examining
the cases of homicides where women are the offenders, we extract information
about the criminal situation and the relation offender – victim, which is
important in knowing the actual crime genesis. What is important to point out
is that women’s homicides and victims are mostly found in the traditional,
family area, where there was domestic violence, abuse or any other kind of
conflict that could not have been resolved in any other way, such as domestic
arguments, confrontation, self-defense or to others.
The data used in this research has been gathered by analyzing and collecting
data from the court files of eleven (N=11) females who have committed
homicide in the period between 2003 and 2014. The Republic of North
Macedonia has four appellate courts on its territory and for the purposes of this
research we’ve chosen two Appellate Courts: The Appellate Court in Skopje
and the Appellate Court in Bitola, because these two courts have the highest
number of court cases on a yearly level. The number of cases in the period of
interest was seven (N=7) cases from the area of the Appellate Court in Skopje
and four (N=4) cases from the area of the Appellate Court in Bitola. In order
to be given a possibility to read and analyze the cases of women’s homicide, a

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long process of written and verbal contacts was needed with each of the
appropriate primary courts.
The data collection sheets were constructed using as an example of a study of
homicides committed by women in six American cities (see Mann, 1996). The
collection of data from the court files took place in the facilities of the primary
courts which were chosen for this analysis. We’ve been given the court files
and after signing a document for protection of personal data, we’ve started the
analysis. The colection of data started in February 2018 and ended in October
2018. The long process has been a consequence of the slow processing of our
requests for an insight in the court files.
The data analysis included statistical methods (descriptive statistics and
correlation analysis) in the process of testing Agnew’s GST and the correlation
of individual strain, negative emotions and victim-offender relations.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Social Sciences > Law
Divisions:	Faculty of Law
Depositing User:	Prof. d-r. Angelina Stanojoska
Date Deposited:	10 Jun 2024 08:08
Last Modified:	10 Jun 2024 08:08
URI:	https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/10005

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