Italy: murders divided by sex in Italy in 2021
In the wake of the enormous tragedy of Giulia Cecchettin's murder, news has been heard that makes the murders, especially of women, appear like an absolute emergency. We have heard phrases that make little sense: for example, in a Mediaset (or La 7) talk show I listened to a participant state that "A third of women are killed", which would mean 10 million deaths by homicide per year.
Given that the problem is very serious and must be addressed on the basis of real data, we did a search for murder data on the Our World In Data website, which reports the official UN data on the matter, and these were the results:
The problem with this card is that…. you can't see Italy, so we had to prepare another image showing Italy.
Homicides are always an emergency, but in Italy we are, fortunately, at the lower limits of the European average and we are also the same with regard to female homicides. In 2021 there were 1.03 murders per 100 thousand inhabitants, and of these 0.39 were of women and 0.64 of men.
This does not mean that murders are not serious: all murders, even if there were only one per million inhabitants, would be serious. all human lives are sacred, from the first to the last. Therefore all murders are crimes to be repressed, but, even better, to be prevented, but to say that in Italy, compared to other European, indeed global, countries, an emergency exists seems an excessive statement.
However, it is right to proceed with an education that inculcates respect for life in everyone, also because each of us only has one.
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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/italia-omicidi-suddivisi-per-sesso-in-italia-nel-2021/ on Mon, 20 Nov 2023 06:30:30 +0000.