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Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias

Gray Mist Killings

By: Neil Websdale

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Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias

Gray Mist Killings

By: Neil Websdale

This book explores dementia-related aggression, violence, and homicide through a detailed analysis of “gray mist killings.” The term gray mist killing refers to intimate partner homicides (IPHs) committed by spouses/partners suffering from dementia, homicides of dementia sufferers committed by their caregiving spouses/partners or other family members, and IPHs attributable to the complications of caring for a co-resident family member suffering from dementia. Killings by people with dementia raise questions about the role of biological, psychological, and sociological forces. This book therefore encourages discussions around the relative weighting of these interrelated forces, and why the criminal justice system and the courts have a hard time handling these killings. It also adds to our understanding of the social responses to people with dementia, the orchestration of services, the nature of caring, and the interaction between sufferers and those familial, community, and state actors that provide support and care. The vividly detailed case studies (from the US, UK and Australia) uniquely inform criminological debates about violence, homicide, and the social responses to these complex phenomena. They are organized around the apparent motives for the killing, such as mercy, theft, prior intimate partner violence, mental illness, and exhaustion. The social responses of families, communities, and state actors are examined and contextualized against what researchers and dementia specialists suggest are promising or best practices for intervention. Apparent triggers or circumstantial precipitants for the killings invite discussion of signals, risks, and preventive interventions. The book culminates in an attempt to make sense of gray mist killings, as well as a discussion of broader implications and significance in relation to globalization, violence against women, the rising prevalence of the dementias, declining birthrates, climate change, and sustainable economic development. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, gender studies, social work, law, public policy, and gerontology. It should also appeal to judges, prosecutors, lawyers, social workers, gerontologists, law enforcement, adult protective services, physicians, psychologists, and psychiatrists.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003846564

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9781003846567

Familicidal Hearts

The Emotional Styles of 211 Killers

By: Neil Websdale

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Familicidal Hearts

The Emotional Styles of 211 Killers

By: Neil Websdale

Oscar, physically and sexually abusive, stabbed his partner and two stepdaughters to death, buried the bodies, and fled the state with his two younger children. Paul, a respected investment banker, donned a Halloween mask and shot his wife and two children before turning the gun on himself. What drives individuals as different as Oscar and Paul to kill their families? Why does familicide appear to be on the rise? In Familicidal Hearts, award-winning author and sociologist Neil Websdale uncovers the stories behind 196 male and 15 female perpetrators of this shocking offense, situating their emotional styles on a continuum, from the livid coercive to the civil reputable. With highly detailed and riveting case studies, Websdale explores the pivotal roles of shame, rage, fear, anxiety, and depression in the lives and crimes of the killers. His analysis demonstrates how internal emotional conflict, against a backdrop of societal pressures, is at the root of familicide, challenging the widely accepted argument that murderers kill family members to assert power and control. Websdale contends instead that most perpetrators struggle with intense shame, many sensing that they failed to live up to the demands of modern gender prescriptions, as fathers and lovers, wives and mothers. What emerges is a compelling theory about the haunting effects of modern emotional struggles on perpetrators, controlling and upstanding alike. Captivatingly written and expertly researched, this provocative book weaves a gripping tale of modern-era "haunted hearts." Blending the social, the historical, and the emotional into a new way of making sense of a horrific crime, Familicidal Hearts is a provocative meditation on gender roles, social forces, and modern life itself.

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Oxford University Press

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0199325847

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9780199325849

Rural Women Battering and the Justice System

An Ethnography

By: Neil Websdale

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Rural Women Battering and the Justice System

An Ethnography

By: Neil Websdale

A training resource for anyone working with battered women, especially in rural areas, Rural Woman Battering and the Justice System is recommended for law enforcement and criminal justice professionals, practitioners, advocates, shelter personnel, and advanced students in related courses of study, as well as academics and researchers.

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300

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SAGE

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0761908528

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9780761908524

Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias

Gray Mist Killings

By: Neil Websdale

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Gray Mist Killings

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Familicidal Hearts

The Emotional Styles of 211 Killers

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The Emotional Styles of 211 Killers

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Rural Women Battering and the Justice System

An Ethnography

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An Ethnography

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Understanding Domestic Homicide

By: Neil Websdale

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Understanding Domestic Homicide

By: Neil Websdale

Case histories of some 300 homicides involving family members, framed within their interpersonal, familial, cultural, and situational contexts.

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UPNE

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1555533930

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Policing the Poor

From Slave Plantation to Public Housing

By: Neil Websdale

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Policing the Poor

From Slave Plantation to Public Housing

By: Neil Websdale

A hard-hitting examination of community policing and its negative impact on the urban poor.

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Making Trouble

Cultural Constructions of Crime, Deviance, and Control

By: Jeff Ferrell,Neil Websdale

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Making Trouble

Cultural Constructions of Crime, Deviance, and Control

By: Jeff Ferrell,Neil Websdale

In Making Trouble leading scholars in criminology, sociology, criminal justice, women's studies, and social history explore the mediated cultural dynamics that construct images and understanding of crime, deviance, and control. Contributors examine the intertwined practices of the mass media, criminal justice agencies, political power holders, and criminal and deviant subcultures in producing and consuming contested representations of legality and illegality. While the collection provides broad analysis of contemporary topics, it also weaves this analysis around a set of innovative and unifying themes. These include the emergence of "situated media" within and between the various subcultures of crime, deviance, and control; the evolution of policing and social control as complex webs of mediated and symbolic meaning; the role of power, identity, and indifference in framing contemporary crime controversies, with special attention paid to the gendered construction of crime, deviance and control; and the importance of historical and cross-cultural dynamics in shaping understandings of crime, deviance, and control.

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0202306186

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Book's by Neil Websdale

Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias

Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias

Familicidal Hearts

Familicidal Hearts

Rural Women Battering and the Justice System

Rural Women Battering and the Justice System

Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias

Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias

Familicidal Hearts

Familicidal Hearts

Rural Women Battering and the Justice System

Rural Women Battering and the Justice System

Understanding Domestic Homicide

Understanding Domestic Homicide

Policing the Poor

Policing the Poor

Making Trouble

Making Trouble

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