TY - JOUR
T1 - Parricide in England and Wales (1977–2012)
T2 - An exploration of offenders, victims, incidents and outcomes
AU - Holt, Amanda
N1 - © 2017, The Author. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Criminology and Criminal Justice, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1748895816688332. 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 - 2017/1/22
Y1 - 2017/1/22
N2 - The killing of one’s parents is a neglected area in criminological scholarship, particularly in the UK, and this article presents the first national analysis of parricide in England and Wales. It draws on data from the Home Office Homicide Index to examine all recorded cases of parricide over a 36-year period and examines the characteristics of offenders, victims, incidents and court outcomes. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to two particular dominant theoretical ideas within the field: the role of mental illness in parricide, and the notion that there are distinct forms of violence against parents that can be organized along dimensions of chronological age (i.e. juvenile/adult offender) and whether the violence is fatal (i.e. parricide) or non-fatal. The article concludes with a discussion of its wider implications for future research.
AB - The killing of one’s parents is a neglected area in criminological scholarship, particularly in the UK, and this article presents the first national analysis of parricide in England and Wales. It draws on data from the Home Office Homicide Index to examine all recorded cases of parricide over a 36-year period and examines the characteristics of offenders, victims, incidents and court outcomes. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to two particular dominant theoretical ideas within the field: the role of mental illness in parricide, and the notion that there are distinct forms of violence against parents that can be organized along dimensions of chronological age (i.e. juvenile/adult offender) and whether the violence is fatal (i.e. parricide) or non-fatal. The article concludes with a discussion of its wider implications for future research.
UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1748895816688332
U2 - 10.1177/1748895816688332
DO - 10.1177/1748895816688332
M3 - Article
SN - 1748-8966
VL - 17
SP - 568
EP - 587
JO - Criminology and Criminal Justice
JF - Criminology and Criminal Justice
IS - 5
ER -
