Domestic homicide: patterns and dynamics (1st)

The literature on domestic violence will often treat homicide as its most extreme outcome.

The reality is more nuanced, with many domestic homicides occurring within a history of abusive behaviour.

This book offers a much-needed synthesis of the literature on domestic homicide, covering its history; the theories supporting it; its various forms such as filicide, intimate partner homicide, parricide, siblicide, and familicide; and its prevention.

The authors explore the predominant theories that have been used to explain domestic homicides in general, as well as specific subtypes of domestic homicide.

Each chapter then takes a chronological approach in examining relationships between victim and perpetrator in the most prominent types of domestic homicide.