ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the question of why counting intimate femicide matters. In so doing, it explores what underpins the desire to quantify such deaths, what current counting practices might imply for the value assigned to such deaths, and as a consequence what might be made visible but still unclear in such practices. Despite the recognized limitations of counting, the chapter argues that without counts, that is, without some quantitative appreciation of the nature and extent of intimate femicide, moves towards the prevention of such killings are limited and a critical opportunity for recognizing and seeking some justice for the women’s lives lost is lost.
