Investigation of killings of women – a quantitative and qualitative analysis

Project team: Birgitt Haller (project management)
Viktoria Eberhardt
Brigitte Temel
Funded by: Federal Minister for Women, Family, Youth, and Integration at the Federal Chancellery
Federal Ministry of the Interior
Federal Ministry of Finance
Completed in: April 2023
Research report (in German)
Publikation: Haller, Birgitt (2023). Femizide in Österreich. Eine Analyse der Justizakten aus dem Zeitraum 2016 bis
2020, SIAK-Journal − Zeitschrift für Polizeiwissenschaft und polizeiliche Praxis (4), 16-27, Online:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7396/2023_4_B

The study of killings of women in Austria in recent years covers two levels. On the one hand, police crime statistics from 2010 to 2020 were evaluated including male and female perpetrators and victims, taking into account all criminal charges as well as charges exclusively against (ex) partners and family members.

On the other hand, court and prosecution files from 2016 to 2020 were analyzed, focusing first on all killings of women and girls, regardless of the gender of the perpetrator, and then on femicide. The files relating to femicide were also subjected to a qualitative analysis focusing on perpetrator typologies.