Femicide, Criminology and the Law

This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on femicide, using Israel as a case study. It offers a novel crimino-legal approach to femicide. The work extends its analysis to secondary victims of femicide and examines the applicability of second-tiered relevant legal tools, mostly tort law, as a means for gaining justice for the victims.

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Hava Dayan conducts research in the field of criminal law and society, with a focus on gender and crime, at the School of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel.

Yifat Bitton is President of Achva Academic College for Science and Education in Israel. She is a legal academic and social activist for equality.

Inhalt

Foreword

Preface

Part One: An Overview on Femicide

Chapter One: A Theoretical Overview on Femicide

Chapter Two: Empirical Criminological Insights on Femicide

Part Two: Femicide Subtypes

Chapter Three: A Crimino-Legal Perspective on Intimate Partner Femicide: The "Reasonable" Israeli Wife Killer

Chapter Four: (Dis)"honor" Femicide

Chapter Five: FemicideSuicide

Chapter Six: Concealed Femicide: Feminist Theory and Circumstantial Evidence

Part Three: Femicide's Secondary-Tier Effects

Chapter Seven: Secondary Victims and the Implications of Femicide

Chapter Eight: Femicide Victims' Agency through Tort Law

Chapter Nine: Femicide, a Crime of Distinctive Nature

Appendix

Index