Intimate Femicide: The Role of Coercive Control

Abstract

Geneva: World Health Organization. i Personality measures such as trait anger and self-control were included in the questionnaire but omitted from this analysis.

The offending histories of homicide offenders: Are men who kill intimate partners distinct from men who kill other men?

“…The project was approved by the Griffith University Human Research Ethics Committee and complies with APA ethical standards. The data are based upon comprehensive interviews conducted between 2009 and 2013 with 262 male offenders convicted of murder or manslaughter (Mazerolle, Eriksson, Wortley, & Johnson, 2017).…”

“…The effect of this is that IPH men may be less likely to come to the attention of the criminal justice system and, when they do, they may not be classified as high-risk due to their 'limited' offending history. The intervention and prevention challenge here is in ensuring other areas of risk in terms of precursors to IPV and IPH are recognized and responded to in appropriate ways through effective screening or surveillance (Johnson, Eriksson, Mazerolle, & Wortley, 2017). In other words, prevention efforts need to extend beyond the realm of the criminal justice system, or a substantial part of the problem will remain unaddressed (Cook et al, 2005).…”

Taxonomía de los Homicidios de Mujeres en las Relaciones de Pareja

“…Recientes trabajos en Australia sobre HCP, con y sin historia previa de violencia (Johnson et al, 2017), concluyen que en general los agresores muestran bajo nivel de estudios, toxicomanías, abusos físicos/sexuales en la infancia, dificultades económicas, presencia de hijastros en la relación, problemas de salud mental sin diagnosticar, separación no deseada, vivencia de maltrato en el hogar por parte del padre hacia la madre, celos sexuales, acoso y antecedentes criminales violentos. En el año previo al homicidio la mitad habían sido violentos con su pareja y una quinta parte lo fue también fuera del hogar.…”

Real Lives and Lost Lives: Making Sense of ‘Locked in’ Responses to Intimate Partner Homicide

“…From this example and the other data cited above, there are also evidenced and repeated difficulties in assessing and assigning appropriate levels of risk in these kinds of cases. Indeed, the relationship between such risk assessments and subsequent IPH is somewhat arbitrary (Westmarland 2011:300-301; see also Day et al 2014) with risk assessment practices in general assuming a scalar view of violence in relationships which may or may not exist (see inter alia Johnson et al 2017). Yet, the import of particular risk moments (like separation from a partner, as in both vignettes here; see also Dekeseredy et al 2017) is quite well established though not necessarily fully acknowledged in practice.…”