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Voices of intimate partner homicide : an exploration of coercive control and lethality / Donna J. King.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Donna J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intimate partner violence--United States.
- Intimate partner violence.
- Homicide--United States.
- Homicide.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 324 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Donna J. King, Ph.D., J.D., is an IPV survivor and President/Director for Victims' Safe Harbor Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)3 social impact organization that provides legal, educational and policy services on domestic violence and child abuse. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Central Florida, where her areas of expertise focused on domestic violence, social inequalities, law and society, gender, and criminology. She also holds a juris doctorate from the Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University College of Law and is a Florida licensed attorney in good standing.
- Contents:
- Part I. The gender identity of coercive control
- Women's rights, domestic violence, and intimate partner violence
- Not all intimate partner violence is created equal
- Asserting the risk: understanding an intimate partner violence victim's risk of death
- Understanding intimate partner homicide victims from their own data
- Part II. Voices of intimate partner homicide victims
- The intimate torture of coercive control
- The insidious and omnipresent coercive control
- When the intimate partner violence victim resists the abuse
- Physical violence, the ultimate in power and control?
- Part III: regulating coercive control: lessons from intimate partner violence and intimate partner homicide data
- The frequencies of coercive control
- Coercive control legislation and reimagining lethality risk assessment for intimate partner violence
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 25, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: King, Donna J. Voices of intimate partner homicide
- ISBN:
- 9781003097488
- 1003097480
- 9781040012338
- 1040012337
- 9781040012376
- 104001237X
- Publisher Number:
- 40032348439
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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