Why women kill : homicide and gender equality / Vickie Jensen.

By:

Jensen, Vickie, 1967-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 195 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781588269195
1588269191

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Why women kill.DDC classification:

364.15/23/ 22

LOC classification:

HV6517 .J46 2001eb

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Contents:

Introduction: Women, gender, and homicide -- Approaches to women's homicide -- Gender and homicide: comparing men and women -- Gender equality and women's homicide rates -- Extending gender and homicide research -- Directions in women's homicide -- Data and methodology -- Gender equality analysis tables.

Summary: Traditional homicide indicators are based on male violence, and do little to predict when, or whom, women will kill. This text shows that gender equality plays an important role in predicting female homicide patterns.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index.

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Traditional homicide indicators are based on male violence, and do little to predict when, or whom, women will kill. This text shows that gender equality plays an important role in predicting female homicide patterns.

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