Full Description
In the United States and Great Britain, 20-30% of all homicides involve the killing of a woman by a man, and it is far rarer when a woman is killed by another woman. Unfortunately, this is not a very well understood phenomenon. Most books on the topic discuss serial killings, but those only make up 2% of sexual murder-a sensationalist subset of a subset. There has never before been a comprehensive book that has covered the entire scope of homicide cases in which men murder women.
Dobash and Dobash, two seasoned researchers and longtime collaborators in the study of violence against women, reveal in When Men Murder Women what they have learned from a three-year study, which examined and analyzed 866 homicide case files, as well as 200 in-depth interviews taken within prisons.
When Men Murder Women offers guidelines for assessing and managing risk to women, and discusses various interventions for male offenders. The result is this essential book for students and researchers in the social sciences studying violence, gender, and crime.
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; Chapters ; 1. Homicide Across Time and Place: Expanding Knowledge and Refining Focus ; INTIMATE PARTNER MURDER ; 2. The Knowledge-Intimate Partner Murder ; 3. Intimate Partner Murder-The Murder Event: Relationships, Contexts and Circumstances ; 4. Intimate Partner Murder-Perpetrators: Lifecourse, Orientations and Cognitions ; SEXUAL MURDER ; 5. The Knowledge-Sexual Murder ; 6. Sexual Murder-The Murder Event: Relationships, Contexts and Circumstances ; 7. Sexual Murder-Perpetrators: Lifecourse, Orientations and Cognitions ; MURDER OF OLDER WOMEN ; 8. The Knowledge-Murder of Older Women ; 9. Murder of Older Women-The Murder Event: Relationships, Contexts and Circumstances ; 10. Murder of Older Women-Perpetrators: Lifecourse, Orientations and Cognitions ; 11. When Men Murder Women: Comparisons and Conclusions ; Appendices ; APPENDIX I - MURDER STUDY ; - Data Collection and Analysis - Casefiles and Interviews ; I.1. Casefiles - Data collection instrument & codebook for SPSS (list of contents only) ; I.2. Interview Schedule - Cover page including list of topics only ; I.3. Casefiles - Variable Specification for SPSS xx 1.4. Nud*ist/QSR - Nodes/Categories (Qualitative Data from Casefiles and Interviews) ; APPENDIX II - MURDER STUDY ; - Casefiles - Achieved Sample & Murder of Women by Men ; APPENDIX III - INTIMATE PARTNER MURDER (IPM) ; APPENDIX IV - SEXUAL MURDER (SexM) ; APPENDIX V - MURDER OF OLDER WOMEN (O.Wo) ; Notes (for all chapters) xx ; References xx ; Index
