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Who Kills Whom? There is no single international database that directly compares “women who kill children” with “men who kill women.” I therefore used a triangulation method: systematic research on child homicide, international homicide statistics from UNODC, and detailed national homicide data from the FBI. The figures are not merged into one artificial global statistic; instead, they are used to see whether the same pattern appears across different sources. A systematic review of 126 studies from 44 countries found that parents were responsible for a median 56.5% of child homicides. For children under one year, parents were responsible for approximately 77.8%. Mothers were particularly prominent among perpetrators of killings of infants (Stöckl et al., 2017). That is remarkable. Women are relatively strongly represented when the homicide victim is a very young child. But this is where the sensational version of the story falls apart. It does not mean that women kill more children than men kill women. Men commit the overwhelming majority of homicides. In the FBI’s 2019 data, there were 1,647 male offenders who killed female victims in single-victim/single-offender cases. By comparison, female-perpetrated child homicide was far smaller. (Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], 2019). UNODC similarly reports that men and boys accounted for 81% of global homicide victims in 2021, while women and girls accounted for 19%. Yet women and girls were disproportionately killed by intimate partners or family members: such killings accounted for 56% of female homicide victims (UNODC, 2023). So what does the evidence actually tell us? Men dominate homicide statistics. But female homicide has a strikingly different pattern: women are disproportionately represented among perpetrators when the victim is an infant, while men account for vastly more homicide overall and for a much broader range of victims. Perhaps the real lesson is uncomfortable for both sides: statistics do not support a simple “men are killers, women are victims” story. Nor do they support reversing that story. Reality is considerably more complicated — and considerably more interesting. References — APA 7th edition Federal Bureau of Investigation. (2019). Expanded homicide data table 6: Murder—race, sex, and ethnicity of victim by race, sex, and ethnicity of offender. U.S. Department of Justice. Stöckl, H., Dekel, B., Morris-Gehring, A., Watts, C., & Abrahams, N. (2017). Child homicide perpetrators worldwide: A systematic review. BMJ Paediatrics Open, 1(1), e000112. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2017-000112 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (2023). Global study on homicide 2023. United Nations.

Laut dem aktuellen Jahresbericht des UNO-Drogenbüros hat sich die Anzahl neuer Drogenarten seit 2000 verfünffacht, während die Zahl der Cannabiskonsumenten im vergangenen Jahrzehnt um 40 Prozent gestiegen ist, was auf einen rasanten Wandel der globalen Drogenmärkte aufgrund von Technologie und Instabilität hinweist. #Drogenbericht #UNODC #Drogenmärkte

Laut dem aktuellen Jahresbericht des UNO-Drogenbüros (UNODC) zeigt sich ein beispielloser Anstieg neuer Drogenarten auf dem globalen Markt, wobei 2024 schätzungsweise 492.000 Drogentote und 331 Millionen Konsumenten weltweit verzeichnet wurden, während Cannabis nach wie vor die am weitesten verbreitete Droge bleibt. #Drogenmarkt #UNODC #NeueDrogenarten

Jungtinių Tautų Narkotikų ir nusikaltimų prevencijos biuras (UNODC) įspėjo apie sparčiai plintančio naujų sintetinių narkotikų antplūdžio grėsmę, nurodydamas, kad 2024 m. šių medžiagų skaičius pasiekė 755, o jų stiprumas ir pavojingumas mažina išaugusio narkotikų vartojimo kontrolę visame pasaulyje. #sintetiniaiNarkotikai #narkotikųPrevencija #UNODC

Portugal se tornou parte de uma rota crescente de tráfico marítimo de cocaína para a Europa, com o uso de submersíveis que podem transportar até 10 toneladas da droga, conforme indicado em um relatório da UNODC que alerta para as mudanças nas rotas de tráfico devido a apreensões em portos de grande porte e ao aumento do consumo global de drogas. #TráficoDeDroga #Cocaína #Portugal