TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring Fatal and Non-Fatal Violence Against Parents
T2 - Challenging the Orthodoxy of Abused Adolescent Perpetrators
AU - Holt, Amanda
AU - Shon, Phillip, C.
N1 - © 2016, The Author(s).This is an author produced version of a paper published in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X16672444. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.
PY - 2016/10/7
Y1 - 2016/10/7
N2 - An examination of scholarly literature concerning fatal violence (i.e., parricide) and non-fatal violence toward parents reveals dominant themes of mental illness, child abuse, and pathology based on a research paradigm that focuses on adolescent perpetrators and, to a lesser extent, elderly victims. This article presents a critical analysis of this literature and argues for a more contextualized approach to the study of violence against parents. It is argued that criminologists should widen their methodological lens to examine this issue from a life course perspective and draw on conceptual tools such as developmental pathways, sources of conflict, and intersectionality to allow for an analysis that can offer new ways of thinking about violence toward parents.
AB - An examination of scholarly literature concerning fatal violence (i.e., parricide) and non-fatal violence toward parents reveals dominant themes of mental illness, child abuse, and pathology based on a research paradigm that focuses on adolescent perpetrators and, to a lesser extent, elderly victims. This article presents a critical analysis of this literature and argues for a more contextualized approach to the study of violence against parents. It is argued that criminologists should widen their methodological lens to examine this issue from a life course perspective and draw on conceptual tools such as developmental pathways, sources of conflict, and intersectionality to allow for an analysis that can offer new ways of thinking about violence toward parents.
U2 - 10.1177/0306624X16672444
DO - 10.1177/0306624X16672444
M3 - Article
SN - 1552-6933
JO - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
JF - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
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