Parricide and Violence against Parents

Marianna G. Muravyeva is Professor of Russian Law at the University of Helsinki, Finland.Phillip Shon is Professor of Criminology at the Ontario Tech University, Canada.Raisa Maria Toivo is Professor of History at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience at Tampere University, Finland.

• IntroductionPart I. Approaches to violence against parentsChapter 1: Defining violence against parentsChapter 2: Conceptualising violence against parentsChapter 3: Historicising violence against parents Part II. Criminology of violence against parents Chapter 4: Defining the crimeChapter 5: Examining the offendersChapter 6: Responding to violence against parentsPart III. Regional overviews: where and whenChapter 7: European parricide and parent abuse Chapter 8: Modernising parricide: the US and the WestChapter 9: In the heart of patriarchy: the Far East Chapter 10: Colonialism and resistance ConclusionIndex

"Parricide and Violence Against Parents is a groundbreaking work that is both accessible and compelling. By innovatively drawing together historical and criminological perspectives, it offers a fascinating analysis of fatal and non-fatal violence towards parents across a wide range of temporal and cultural contexts. Based on thorough research conducted within a robust theoretical framework, this book produces new insights not only on violence against parents, but on all forms of family violence. This is a rapidly expanding field, and this book will be of interest to social science and humanities scholars, practitioners working in the field of family violence, as well as the more general reader."Dr. Amanda Holt, Reader in Criminology, University of Roehampton, London. "The historical focus that runs throughout the book is a huge contributor to the reader's holistic understanding of the issue. With examinations of changes in laws, definitions, societal attitudes and beliefs, professional understandings and theorizing, and culturally broad sources, studies and perspectives the reader is afforded an opportunity to understand issues of parricide and violence against parents more thoroughly and deeply. Parricide and Violence Against Parents is broad in its coverage and delves fairly (but not overly) deep into traits of offenders, victims, and especially socio-historical contexts, as well as showing readers where issues fit within numerous theoretical perspectives. While the book is thick with information, the clear organization of the book facilitates readers both understanding and the progression of ideas. One of the best qualities of Muravyeva, Shon and Toivo's text is that it is written at a level that is accessible to all, yet it maintains theoretical richness and complexity. Readers ranging from simply interested onlookers, to undergraduates to advanced career researchers can and will find Parricide and Violence against Parents to be an accessible, academically rich, holistic examination of a fascinating, under-studied form of crime."Richard Tewksbury, Ph.D., University of Louisville (Ret.)