Taking a historical and criminological approach, this book places fatal and non-fatal violence against parents in the context of social development from the 1500s to contemporary society and provides global overview and comparison across the world.

Marianna G. Muravyeva is Professor of Russian Law at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Phillip Shon is Professor of Criminology at the Ontario Tech University, Canada.

Raisa Maria Toivo is Professor of History at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience at Tampere University, Finland.

Introduction

Part I. Approaches to violence against parents

Chapter 1: Defining violence against parents

Chapter 2: Conceptualising violence against parents

Chapter 3: Historicising violence against parents

Part II. Criminology of violence against parents

Chapter 4: Defining the crime

Chapter 5: Examining the offenders

Chapter 6: Responding to violence against parents

Part III. Regional overviews: where and when

Chapter 7: European parricide and parent abuse

Chapter 8: Modernising parricide: the US and the West

Chapter 9: In the heart of patriarchy: the Far East

Chapter 10: Colonialism and resistance

Conclusion

Index