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- Title
Characteristics of Incarcerated Women in South Korea Who Killed Their Spouses: A Feminist and Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control Analysis.
- Authors
Kim, Bitna; Gerber, Jurg; Yeonghee Kim
- Abstract
This study examines the roles of domestic abuse and prior criminal involvement in women's spousal homicide in South Korea utilizing Sampson and Laub's age-graded theory of informal social control and relevant feminist literature on women who kill their spouses/partners. Using a sample of female prison inmates, this study found that certain factors differentiated between females who killed their partners and other female offenders: notably, they had been subjected to psychological, physical, and sexual abuse, and they were more likely to be married, but less likely to have been involved in prior delinquent activities.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; WOMEN prisoners; INTIMATE partner homicide; MARITICIDE; SOCIAL control; SEX crimes; MARRIAGE &; psychology; DELINQUENT behavior; FEMINIST theory
- Publication
Southwest Journal of Criminal Justice, 2007, Vol 4, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
1939-442X
- Publication type
Article