Intimate Partner Femicide: Using Foucauldian Analysis to Track an Eight Stage Progression to Homicide

2019/08/05 by Jane Monckton Smith · 1 voice · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Intimate Partner and Family Violence #Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse #Crime Patterns and Interventions

paper · doi:10.1177/1077801219863876

openalex publication_date 2019/08/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/10

Abstract

The killing of women by their intimate, or former intimate, partners is a serious social, criminal justice, and public health issue. There are significant pressures on public services in the United Kingdom and other places to reduce the number of deaths, and a need for more information to aid in assessing risk. The aim of this article is to develop understanding of nonclinical risk assessment by organizing the perpetrator journey to homicide using temporal sequencing and drawing from coercive control discourse.

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• Feminist Depictions of Coercive Control in ‘Domestic Noir’: Ilsa Evans’s Broken (2007) and Kathryn Heyman’s Storm and Grace (2017)

Discussions

• Mais ou menos relevante: Smith, Jane Monckton. “Intimate Partner Femicide: Using Foucauldian Analysis to Track an Eight Stage Progression to Homicide.” Violence Against Women 26, no. 11 (September 20 [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]

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