Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Female perpetrated homicide in Victoria between 1985 and 1995
Other Titles:	Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
Authors:	Kirkwood, Deborah
Keywords:	Representations of women;Perpetrators;Homicide
Year:	2003
Publisher:	Australian Academic Press : Samford Valley
Citation:	36 (1), August 2003
Notes:	This article presents findings of research on women who kill. All cases in which a woman was investigated by police as a perpetrator in a homicide in Victoria, Australia, between 1985 and 1995 were examined. The aim was to investigate the range of circumstances in which women kill. Seventy-seven cases were identified. The primary source of data was the Victorian Coroner's office. Initially it was expected that most women would have killed a partner as a result of the experience of long-term violence. However, the findings of the study show that the situation with respect to women and those they kill is more complex. Three primary relationship categories were identified: women who kill their partners, women who kill their children and women who kill non-intimates. The third category primarily involved women who killed friends and acquaintances. This paper will argue that the homicide literature fails to provide a conceptual framework for understanding women who kill and hence contributes to the cultural stigmatising of violent women as "mad" or "bad". [Copyright ? Australian Academic Press 2010 All Rights Reserved. For further information, visit Australian Academic Press.]
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/14822
ISSN:	0004-8658
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

Items in ANROWS library are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.