HOMICIDE AND GENOCIDE: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE ON LETHAL VIOLENCE
HOMICIDE AND GENOCIDE: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE ON LETHAL VIOLENCE

Summary/Abstract: International reports on the evolution of the number of people intentionally killed in recent years indicate the maintenance of a significant number of victims worldwide: 464,000 in 2017 (UNODC 2019). Although the global homicide rate (6.1/100,000) decreased compared to 1993 (7.4/100,000), high values continued to be recorded in the Americas (17.2/100,000) and Africa (13/100,000) (Idem, p. 11). Europe had a lower than average rate worldwide (3/100,000), and the number of homicide victims in 2017 was 22,000 (Ibidem). The evolution of the homicide rate was also different within the European Union, where the average homicide rate committed in the Member States in 2017 was 0.68 / 100,000 people. Countries such as Germany (0.44 in 2017), Italy (0.48), and Luxembourg (0.15) had rates below the EU average, while Latvia (3.76), Lithuania (2.84), Romania (1.47) and Bulgaria (1.17) had values above average (Eurostat, October 2021)

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