Femicide, Criminology and the Law

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-36687-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on femicide, using Israel as an illuminating case study, given its diverse communities and common-law-based legal system. Utilizing analytical alongside practical perspectives, the book offers a novel crimino-legal approach to femicide. In addition to its interdisciplinary novelty, the book presents originality in going beyond the more usual focus on the central victims and the common legal tools. Here, the authors extend the analysis to secondary victims of femicide and examine the applicability of second-tiered relevant legal tools, mostly tort law, as a means for gaining justice for the victims. This explorative journey culminates with the authors’ definition of femicide as a quintessential "crime of distinct nature". In the context of current international pledges to better understand and consequently better fight femicide, this work allows readers to comprehend the phenomenon and the ways to abolish it. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and policy makers working in the areas of criminal law, tort law, family law, criminology and gender studies, as well as for legal theorists and criminologists seeking integration of both disciplines.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dayan, Hava

Bitton, Yifat

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Preface

Part One: An Overview on Femicide

Chapter One: A Theoretical Overview on Femicide

Chapter Two: Empirical Criminological Insights on Femicide

Part Two: Femicide Subtypes

Chapter Three: A Crimino-Legal Perspective on Intimate Partner Femicide: The "Reasonable" Israeli Wife Killer

Chapter Four: (Dis)"honor" Femicide

Chapter Five: Femicide–Suicide

Chapter Six: Concealed Femicide: Feminist Theory and Circumstantial Evidence

Part Three: Femicide’s Secondary-Tier Effects

Chapter Seven: Secondary Victims and the Implications of Femicide

Chapter Eight: Femicide Victims’ Agency through Tort Law

Chapter Nine: Femicide, a Crime of Distinctive Nature

Appendix

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hava Dayan conducts research in the field of criminal law and society, with a focus on gender and crime, at the School of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel.

Yifat Bitton is President of Achva Academic College for Science and Education in Israel. She is a legal academic and social activist for equality.