Dangerous relationships and how they end in murder
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jane Monckton Smith
- Publish Year
- 2021
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 8 2022 B
- Thesaurus_EN
- domestic violence, physical violence, sexual violence
- Description
- Jane Monckton Smith, a former police officer and internationally renowned professor of public protection has developed her ground-breaking research into an eight-stage homicide timeline, laying out identifiable stages in which coercive relationships can escalate to violence and murder. Drawing on disciplines including psychology, sociology and law, Monckton Smith talks to victims, their families and killers to piece together the hows and whys of abuse - while shining a searching light onto the society and media that allow it to thrive.