Feminist scholars have produced abundant writings on violence against women, yet theory development has stagnated. The effort to construct a theory of patriarchy to explain violence against women was derailed by criticism. In this article, the author addresses some of these criticisms, uncovers the explanatory strengths of this concept, and lays some foundations for a more fully developed theory of violence against women. The concept of patriarchy holds promise for theorizing violence against women because it keeps the theoretical focus on dominance, gender, and power. It also anchors the problem of violence against women in social conditions, rather than individual attributes.

Varieties of Patriarchy and Violence Against Women: Resurrecting "Patriarchy" as a Theoretical Tool

List of tables and figures Preface Introduction Part I. Plans for Sex-Role Behaviour: 1. Scripts for female power 2. Scripts for male dominance Part II. Constructing Sex-Role Plans: 3. The environmental context of metaphors for sexual identities 4. Plans for the sexual division of labor 5. Blood, sex, and danger Part III. The Women's World: 6. The bases for female political and economic power and authority 7. The decline of the women's world: the effect of colonialism Part IV. The Dynamics of Male Dominance and Sexual Inequality: 8. The bases for male dominance 9. Why women? Part V. Conquerors of the Land Flowing with Milk and Honey: Epilogue Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index.

Female Power and Male Dominance on the Origins of Sexual Inequality@@@The Black Woman Cross Culturally

Age and Crime.

Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice.

Switzerland has an unusual position on assisted suicide: it is legally condoned and can be performed by non-physicians. Euthanasia is illegal, but there is a debate about decriminalisation that also discusses participation by non-physicians

Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in Switzerland: Allowing a Role for Non-Physicians. (Abstracts)

For the period 1981 to 1993 women represented 21 to 26 percent of homicide victims in the United States annually (Smith and Kuchta 1993). During this same time period sex-specific homicide rates have been among the forms of disaggregation researchers have used to test the utility of traditional correlates of homicide in predicting rates across various population subgroups and units of analysis. Based upon earlier research of the effects of gender inequality upon rates of lethal violence against women, and by applying a feminist theoretical perspective, it is hypothesized that the effect of general social structural characteristics of cities upon women's risk of homicide is mediated by levels of gender inequality. Specifically, this study examines the effects of gender, socioeconomic, legislative, political and extra-legal inequality upon female homicide victimization among 217 U.S. central cities for the period of 1989–1991. Using structural equation modeling results indicate that, among traditio...

A retrospective investigation of gender inequality and female homicide victimization

Serial murderers are rare offenders, and this, coupled with challenges to accessing data about them, poses a significant challenge to empirical investigation. It is also true that female serial mur...

Lethal Ladies Revisiting What We Know About Female Serial Murderers

The present study is a partial test of Unnithan, Huff-Corzine, Corzine, and Whitt's integrated model of suicide and homicide, focusing specifically on gender differences in the suicide-to-homicide ratio (SHR). In light of prior research on the differential attributional styles of men and women, the underlying assumption of Unnithan et al. regarding attribution of blame and direction of lethal violence is assessed. Using aggregate national suicide and homicide rates for the years 1979 through 1997, SHRs and lethal violence rates (LVRs) are calculated and compared by gender. Analyses reveal that women's SHRs are substantially higher than those for men. In addition, it is found that trends in LVRs over time are significantly different for men and women, exhibiting a cyclical pattern in the case of men and a linear pattern in the case of women. Implications of these findings for the integrated model and for future research are discussed.

Gender, Attributional Styles, and Direction of Lethal Violence A Partial Test of an Integrated Model of Suicide and Homicide

This study compares two groups of women in South Korea: one group incarcerated for the deaths of their male partners and the other staying in a shelter for battered women. The analysis serves to answer two questions: First, are the findings regarding women who kill their intimate partners in Western societies generally applicable to their counterparts in South Korea? Second, how are abused South Korean women who resort to lethal violence against their abusers different from those who do not? Regarding both abused and nonabused women incarcerated for criminal homicide against their partners, results indicate that they have less experience of psychological and physical abuse by their partners and that they are less educated, underemployed, and more supportive of traditional patriarchal norms than are the women who utilize domestic violence shelters. This research explores implications for intervention strategies to encourage abused women to seek help from legal and extralegal sources.

Abused South Korean Women A Comparison of Those Who Do and Those Who Do Not Resort to Lethal Violence

The present research contributes to the growing body of cross-cultural research on domestic violence. This is accomplished by answering the question of how severity of intimate partner abuse varies for (1) women incarcerated for the homicides of their male partners (2) abused women who sought domestic violence shelter, short of killing their intimate assailants, and (3) a group of South Korean females outside of domestic violence shelters or prison. The article concludes with a discussion of potential policy implications of the findings as well as promising directions for future research.

Victoria B. Titterington

Papers

A retrospective investigation of gender inequality and female homicide victimization

Lethal Ladies Revisiting What We Know About Female Serial Murderers

Gender, Attributional Styles, and Direction of Lethal Violence A Partial Test of an Integrated Model of Suicide and Homicide

Abused South Korean Women A Comparison of Those Who Do and Those Who Do Not Resort to Lethal Violence

Domestic violence and South Korean women: the cultural context and alternative experiences.