GBV Patterns
GBV Patterns
Women Count USA is the only systematic record in the country of women and girls killed by men and boys. Dawn Wilcox has built it by hand since 2016 from news reports, court records, social media and obituaries. It runs from the 1950s to this year, in fifteen working databases. They are shown here exactly as she publishes them, not copied.
Pick a year. The table opens inside this page with every column Dawn Wilcox records: her age, her race, the relationship, his age, cause of death, location type, case status and the sources for each case. Filter and sort inside the table.
Source: Women Count USA: Femicide Accountability Project, Dawn Wilcox, womencountusa.org/the-databases. Copyrighted material, embedded with the share links she publishes. Entries are at different stages of completion.
Filter any table above, read the record count at the bottom of the grid, and log it here with the filter you used. The counts stay in your browser, chart by year, export as a file, and carry into the lost-earnings ledger. The database is never copied; the counting is yours.
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Counts are stored only in this browser. Record what you counted and the date on the methodology page's terms: a count is a floor, entries are at various stages of completion, and the live tables change daily.
Each card names a question, the columns that answer it, and how the answer will be shown once aggregation is agreed with Women Count USA and CATW. Until then the embedded tables above are the analysis surface.
Age at death, in bands, for all victims and for New York. Girls under 18 separately.
HER AGEDATESTATERelationship to the victim grouped into intimate partner, family, acquaintance, stranger, commercial sexual exploiter and unknown. His age and race where recorded.
RELATIONSHIPHIS AGEHIS RACE / ETHState and city for every case; the database also keeps an address field for mapping.
STATECITYADDRESS FOR MAPPINGThe database codes commercial sexual exploitation as a relationship type and as an additional detail. These are the cases New York does not count anywhere.
RELATIONSHIPADDITIONAL DETAILSKEYWORDSPrior protective orders, strangulation history, threats to kill, break-ups in the weeks before, murder-suicide, firearms.
KEYWORDSCAUSE OF DEATHMURDER-SUICIDEConviction, pending, suspect deceased, unsolved, declined indictment, mishandled.
CASE STATUS / DETAILSSENTENCEWomen Count USA is copyrighted material built by one person. Before this project copies, re-codes and republishes it as an open dataset, Dawn Wilcox and CATW need to agree to the terms. The fetch script and coding rules are ready in the repository and described on the methodology page so they can be reviewed first.