Parricide and Violence Against Parents throughout History : (De)Constructing Family and Authority?

Resource Information

The work Parricide and Violence Against Parents throughout History : (De)Constructing Family and Authority? represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Parricide and Violence Against Parents throughout History : (De)Constructing Family and Authority?

Title remainder

(De)Constructing Family and Authority?

Statement of responsibility

edited by Marianna Muravyeva, Raisa Maria Toivo

Contributor

• Toivo, Raisa Maria
• Muravyeva, Marianna

Editor

• Toivo, Raisa Maria
• Muravyeva, Marianna

Subject

• Europe -- History—1492-
• History
• Crime -- Sociological aspects
• Social history
• Europe -- History—476-1492

Language

eng

Summary

This book combines the approaches of history and criminology to study parricide and non-fatal violence against parents from across traditional period and geographical boundaries, encompassing research on Asia as well as Europe and North America. Parricide and non-fatal violence against parents are rare but significant forms of family violence. They have been perceived to be a recent phenomenon related to bad parenting and child abuse often in poorer socioeconomic circumstances – yet they have a history, which provides insights for modern-day explanation and intervention. Research on violence against parents has concentrated on child abuse and mental illness but, by using a rich array of primary and secondary documents, such as court cases, criminal statistics, newspaper reports, and legal and medical literature, this book shows that violence against parents is also shaped by conflicts related to parental authority, the rise of children’s rights, conflicting economic and emotional expectations, and other sociohistorical factors.--

Member of

• World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
• Springer eBooks.