Recent and overview pieces
Corradi, C., and Bandelli, D. (2019). Femicide. In Handbook on Gender and Violence, Ed. L. J. Sheperd. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Dawson, M., & Vega, S.M. (2023). The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide. Routledge.
Di Marco, M. H., & Dawson, M. (2024). Thematic Section: Femicide – a persistence social issue. International Sociology.
Garcia-Vergara, E., Almeda, N., Martín Ríos, B., Becerra-Alonso, D., & Fernández-Navarro, F. (2022). A comprehensive analysis of factors associated with intimate partner femicide: a systematic review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(12), 7336.
Graham, L. M., Macy, R. J., Rizo, C. F., & Martin, S. L. (2022). Explanatory theories of intimate partner homicide perpetration: A systematic review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 23(2), 408-427.
Johnson, H., Eriksson, L., Mazerolle, P., & Wortley, R. (2019). Intimate femicide: The role of coercive control. Feminist Criminology, 14(1), 3-23.
Karlsson, L. C., Antfolk, J., Putkonen, H., Amon, S., da Silva Guerreiro, J., de Vogel, V., ... & Weizmann-Henelius, G. (2021). Familicide: A systematic literature review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 22(1), 83-98.
Koppa, V., & Messing, J. T. (2021). Can justice system interventions prevent intimate partner homicide? An analysis of rates of help seeking prior to fatality. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(17-18), 8792-8816.
Marcuello-Servós, C., Corradi, C., Weil, S., & Boira, S. (2016). Femicide: A social challenge. Current Sociology, 64(7), 967-974.
Matias, A., Gonçalves, M., Soeiro, C., & Matos, M. (2020). Intimate partner homicide: A meta-analysis of risk factors. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 50, 101358. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2019.101358
McLachlan, F., & Harris, B. (2022). Intimate Risks: Examining Online and Offline Abuse, Homicide Flags, and Femicide. Victims & Offenders, 17(5), 623-646. doi:10.1080/15564886.2022.2036658
McPhedran, S., Eriksson, L., Mazerolle, P., & Johnson, H. (2018). Victim-focussed studies of intimate partner femicide: A critique of methodological challenges and limitations in current research. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 39, 61-66.
McPherson, R. (2023). Reflecting on Legal Responses to Intimate Partner Femicide in Scotland. Violence Against Women, 29(3-4), 686-704. doi:10.1177/10778012221094068
Messerschmidt, J. W. (2017). Masculinities and Femicide. Qualitative Sociology Review, 13(3).
Messing, J. T., AbiNader, M., Bent-Goodley, T., & Campbell, J. (2022). Preventing intimate partner homicide: The long road ahead. Homicide Studies, 26(1), 91-105.
Monckton Smith, J. (2020). Intimate partner femicide: Using Foucauldian analysis to track an eight stage progression to homicide. Violence against women, 26(11), 1267-1285.
Moore, M. D., Heirigs, M. H., & Barnes, A. K. (2021). A state-level analysis of gender inequality on male and female homicide. Crime & Delinquency, 67(12), 1879-1902.
Reis, C., & Meyer, S.R. (2024). Understudied and underaddressed: femicide, an extreme form of violence against women and girls. PLoS Med. 21(1), e1004336.
Rowlands, J. (2022). Constructing Fatality Review: A Policy Analysis of the Emergence of Domestic Homicide Reviews in England and Wales. Violence Against Women, 28(15-16), 3657-3680. doi:10.1177/10778012211068064
Serpell, B., Sullivan, T., & Doherty, L. (2022). Homicide in Australia 2019–20. Retrieved from Canberra: https://doi.org/10.52922/sr78511
Shackelford, Todd K. (Ed.). (2020). The Sage Handbook of Domestic Violence. Sage.
Includes;
1: Contesting femicide: Social movements and the politics of men’s violence against female intimate partners / Alison Brysk & Jesilyn Faust
8: Familicide: The killing of spouse and children by men / Marieke Liem
9: Homicide-suicide by men against female intimate partners / Sonia Salari & Carrie Sillito
18: Partner-killing of men by female intimate partners / Bitna Kim
19: Familicide (killing of spouse and children) by women / Margarita Poteyeva
20: Homicide-suicide by Women against Intimate Partners / Wendy C. Regoeczi & Randolph Roth
Smith, E. J., Bailey, B. A., & Cascio, A. (2023). Sexual Coercion, Intimate Partner Violence, and Homicide: A Scoping Literature Review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 0(0), 15248380221150474. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380221150474
Smith, J. M. (2021). In control: Dangerous relationships and how they end in murder. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Smith, K. I. (2018). Femicide. In N. Lombard (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence (pp. 158-170). Routledge.
Smithey, M., & Thompson, A. (2022). A cross-national examination of global gender inequality and femicide by intimate partners and family members. Violence and victims, 37(3), 305-325.
Spencer, C. M., & Stith, S. M. (2020). Risk factors for male perpetration and female victimization of intimate partner homicide: A meta-analysis. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 21(3), 527-540.
Stamatel, J. P. (2018). Money matters: Dissecting the relationship between gender equality and female homicide victimization rates in the European Union. Feminist criminology, 13(5), 435-455.
Truong, M., Yeganeh, L., Cartwright, A., Ward, E., Ibrahim, J., Cuschieri, D., ... & Bugeja, L. (2023). Domestic/family homicide: A systematic review of empirical evidence. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 24(3), 1908-1928.
Tyson, D. (2020). Coercive Control and Intimate Partner Homicide. In Criminalising Coercive Control: Family Violence and the Criminal Law, Eds M. McMahon and P. McGorrery, pp. 73-92.
Vatnar, S. K. B., Friestad, C., & Bjørkly, S. (2021). Intimate partner homicide. In The Routledge International Handbook of Domestic Violence and Abuse, Eds. Devaney, J., Bradbury-Jones, C., Macy, R. J., Øverlien, C., & Holt (pp. 373-386): Routledge.
Velopulos, C. G., Carmichael, H., Zakrison, T. L., & Crandall, M. (2019). Comparison of male and female victims of intimate partner homicide and bidirectionality—an analysis of the national violent death reporting system. Journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 87(2), 331-336.
Vieraitis, L. M., Britto, S., & Morris, R. G. (2015). Assessing the impact of changes in gender equality on female homicide victimization: 1980-2000. Crime & Delinquency, 61(3), 428-453.
Violence Policy Center. (2014). When men murder women: An analysis of 2012 homicide data. Washington D.C.: Violence Policy Center.
Walklate, S., & Fitz-Gibbon, K. Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts. Current Sociology, 0(0), 00113921221082698. doi:10.1177/00113921221082698
Walklate, S., & Hopkins, A. (2019). Real lives and lost lives: making sense of ‘locked in’ responses to intimate partner homicide. Asian Journal of Criminology, 14(2), 129-143.
Websdale, N. (2017). Trends and Patterns in Intimate Partner Homicide. Domestic Homicides and Death Reviews: An International Perspective, 27-31.
Weil, S. (2016). Making femicide visible. Current Sociology, 64(7), 1124-1137.
Weil, S., & Kouta, C. (2017). Femicide: a glance through qualitative lenses. Qualitative Sociology Review.
Yardley, E. (2021). The killing of women in “sex games gone wrong”: An analysis of femicides in Great Britain 2000–2018. Violence Against Women, 27(11), 1840-1861.
Yardley, E., & Richards, L. (2023). The elephant in the room: Toward an integrated, feminist analysis of mass murder. Violence Against Women, 29(3-4), 752-772.
Zeppegno, P., Gramaglia, C., di Marco, S., Guerriero, C., Consol, C., Loreti, L., ... & Sarchiapone, M. (2019). Intimate partner homicide suicide: A mini-review of the literature (2012–2018). Current Psychiatry Reports, 21(2), 1-16.
Other works
Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety. (2022). Pathways to intimate partner homicide: The “fixated threat” offender trajectory [Fact sheet].
ANROWS.Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety. (2022). Pathways to intimate partner homicide: The “persistent and disorderly” offender trajectory [Fact sheet]. ANROWS.
Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety. (2022). Pathways to intimate partner homicide: The “deterioration/acute stressor” offender trajectory [Fact sheet]. ANROWS.
Banks, L., C. Crandall, D. Sklar and M. Bauer (2008). A Comparison of Intimate Partner Homicide to Intimate Partner Homicide-Suicide: One Hundred and Twenty-Four New Mexico Cases. Violence Against Women, 14(9): 1065-1078.
Barnes, Jo. (2000). Murder Followed by Suicide in Australia, 1973-1992: A Research Note. Journal of Sociology, 36(1), March.
Boonzaier, F., Huysamen, M., & van Niekerk, T. (2020). Men from the South: Feminist, decolonial and intersectional perspectives on men, masculinities and intimate partner violence. In Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence (pp. 52-65): Routledge.
Bows, H., & Herring, J. (2020). Getting Away With Murder? A Review of the ‘Rough Sex Defence’. The Journal of Criminal Law, 84(6), 525-538. doi:10.1177/0022018320936777
Boxall, H., Doherty, L., Lawler, S., Franks, C., & Bricknell, S. (2022). The “Pathways to intimate partner homicide” project: Key stages and events in male-perpetrated intimate partner homicide in Australia (Research report, 04/2022). ANROWS.
Bracewell, K., Jones, C., Haines-Delmont, A., Craig, E., Duxbury, J., & Chantler, K. (2021). Beyond intimate partner relationships: utilising domestic homicide reviews to prevent adult family domestic homicide. Journal of Gender-Based Violence.
Bricknell, S. (2023). Homicide in Australia 2020–21. Statistical Report no. 42. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.52922/sr78979
Bridger, E., Strang, H., Parkinson, J., & Sherman, L. W. (2017). Intimate partner homicide in England and Wales 2011–2013: Pathways to prediction from multi-agency domestic homicide reviews. Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing, 1(2), 93-104.
Caman, S., Howner, K., Kristiansson, M., & Sturup, J. (2016). Differentiating male and female intimate partner homicide perpetrators: A study of social, criminological and clinical factors. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 15(1), 26-34.
Caman, S., Kristiansson, M., Granath, S., & Sturup, J. (2017). Trends in rates and characteristics of intimate partner homicides between 1990 and 2013. Journal of Criminal Justice, 49, 14-21.
Campbell, J. K., Rothman, E. F., Shareef, F., & Siegel, M. B. (2019). The Relative Risk of Intimate Partner and Other Homicide Victimization by State-Level Gender Inequity in the United States, 2000–2017. Violence and Gender, 6(4), 211-218. doi:10.1089/vio.2019.0023
Carcach, Carlos, and Marianne James. (1998). Homicide Between Intimate Partners in Australia. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, No. 90, July. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
Chang, Jeani, Cynthia J. Berg, Linda E. Saltzman, and Joy Herndon. (2005). Homicide: A Leading Cause of Injury Deaths Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women in the United States, 1991-1999. American Journal of Public Health, March, Vol. 95, Iss. 3.
Cook, E.A., Walklate, S., & Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2022). Re-imagining what counts as femicide. Current Sociology, 0(0), 00113921221106502. doi:10.1177/00113921221106502
Cookson, T.P., Fuentes, L., & Bitterly, J. (2024). Addressing gender-based violence through social protection: A scoping review. Development in Practice.
Corradi, C., Marcuello-Servós, C., Boira, S., & Weil, S. (2016). Theories of femicide and their significance for social research. Current Sociology, 64(7), 975-995.
Cullen, P., Dawson, M., Price, J., & Rowlands, J. (2021). Intersectionality and invisible victims: Reflections on data challenges and vicarious trauma in Femicide, family and intimate partner homicide research. Journal of Family Violence, 1-10.
Cullen, P., Vaughan, G., Li, Z., Price, J., Yu, D., & Sullivan, E. (2019). Counting dead women in Australia: An in-depth case review of femicide. Journal of Family Violence, 34(1), 1-8.
Cussen, T., & Bryant, W. (2015). Domestic/family homicide in Australia. Research in Practice: No. 38 May 2015. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
Daw, J., Halliwell, G., Hay, S., & Jacob, S. (2022). “You don’t notice it, it’s like boiling water”: Identifying psychological abuse within intimate partner relationships and how it develops across a domestic homicide timeline. Current Psychology. doi:10.1007/s12144-022-03103-0
Dawson, M. (2016). Punishing femicide: Criminal justice responses to the killing of women over four decades. Current Sociology, 64(7), 996-1016.
Dawson, M., & Carrigan, M. (2021). Identifying femicide locally and globally: Understanding the utility and accessibility of sex/gender-related motives and indicators. Current Sociology, 69(5), 682-704.
Dawson, M., & Vega, S.M. (2023). The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide. Routledge.
Di Marco, M. H., & Dawson, M. (2024). Thematic Section: Femicide – a persistence social issue. International Sociology.
Di Marco, M. H., & Evans, D. P. (2020). Society, Her or Me? An Explanatory Model of Intimate Femicide Among Male Perpetrators in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Feminist Criminology, 0(0), 1557085120964572. doi:10.1177/1557085120964572
Domestic, A., & Family Violence Death Review Network, A. A. s. N. R. O. f. W. s. S. (2022). Intimate partner violence homicides 2010–2018: Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety.
Dugan, L., D.S. Nagin, and R. Rosenfeld. (2003). Exposure Reduction or Retaliation? The Effects of Domestic Violence Resources on Intimate-Partner Homicide. Law & Society Review, 37(1): 169-198.
Dugan, Laura, Daniel S. Nagin, and Richard Rosenfeld. (1999). Explaining the Decline in Intimate Partner Homicide: The Effects of Changing Domesticity, Women’s Status, and Domestic Violence Resources. Homicide Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 187-214, August.
Easteal, Patricia W. (1993). Homicide Between Adult Sexual Intimates: A Research Agenda. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 26(1), pp. 3-18.
Easteal, Patricia W. (1993). Killing the Beloved: Homicide Between Adult Sexual Intimates. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
Easteal, Patricia W. (1994). Homicide between Adult Sexual Intimates: Implications for Prevention. Studies on Crime and Crime Prevention, 3: 24-40.
Easteal, Patricia W. (1994). Sexual Intimate Homicides Involving Overseas-Born in Australia: The Tip of the Domestic Violence iceberg?. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 29(3), August.
Elliott, J. E., & Romero, D. E. (2022). Intimate Partner Homicide and Recommendations for Counselors. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 44(4), 283-296.
Emerson Dobash, R., & Dobash, R. P. (2011). What were they thinking? Men who murder an intimate partner. Violence Against Women, 17(1), 111-134.
Enander, V., Krantz, G., Lövestad, S., & Örmon, K. (2022). The killing and thereafter: intimate partner homicides in a process perspective, part II. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 6(3), 501-517.
Enander, V., Krantz, G., Lysell, H., & Örmon, K. (2021). Before the killing: intimate partner homicides in a process perspective, Part I. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 5(1), 59-74.
Forrest, W. (2022). The drop in female homicide victimisation in Australia. Journal of Criminology, 55(4), 403-432. doi:10.1177/26338076221110251
Fridel, E. E., & Fox, J. A. (2019). Gender differences in patterns and trends in US homicide, 1976–2017. Violence and Gender, 6(1), 27-36.
Fulu, E., Alondra, V., Warner, X., Brown, C., & Leung, L. (2023). Understanding Femicide Using a Global Social Ecological Model. In M. Dawson & S. M. Vega (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Femicide and Feminicide (pp. 40-49). Routledge.
Gillespie, Cynthia K. (1989). Justifiable Homicide: Battered Women, Self-Defence, and the Law. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
Gillespie, L. K., & Reckdenwald, A. (2017). Gender equality, place, and female-victim intimate partner homicide: A county-level analysis in North Carolina. Feminist criminology, 12(2), 171-191.
Gore, A. (2021). Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility: Fatal relationships (1st ed.). Routledge.
Feminism, Postfeminism and the Politics of Responsibility
Lethal Relationships and Legal Ambiguities
Beyond the Law: Analysing Postfeminism, Emotion, and Affect in Public Responses to Lethal Violence
Debating Men’s Responsibility for Violence
Women’s Victimisation and Violence – The Effects of Female Individualisation
Postfeminism, men’s rights and responsibility
Gottzén, L., Bjørnholt, M., & Boonzaier, F. (2020). What has masculinity to do with intimate partner violence? In Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence (pp. 1-15): Routledge.
Graham, L. M., Sahay, K. M., Rizo, C. F., Messing, J. T., & Macy, R. J. (2021). The validity and reliability of available intimate partner homicide and reassault risk assessment tools: A systematic review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 22(1), 18-40.
Harden, J., Du, J., Spencer, C. M., & Stith, S. M. (2019). Examining attempted and completed intimate partner homicide: A qualitative synthesis. Violence and Victims, 34(6), 869-888.
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