Russell places emphasis on the idea that males commit femicide with sexist motives.
Some view it as too general and at risk of designating any negative action toward women as femicide and thereby diffusing its usefulness as a feminist tool.
Living in neighborhoods with increased poverty, ethnic heterogeneity and decreased collective efficacy (social cohesion among neighbors) are all found to be linked to increased femicide rates in that area.
They also claim that using gendercide points to the largely taboo nature of femicide.
Males are seen as being driven to commit femicide due to a breakdown in love attributed to the female.
Two-fifths of intimate partner femicide are related to use of intoxicants.
