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