In Control
Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder
1st Edition
Published on 4. March 2021
256 pages
978-1-5266-1319-6 (ISBN)
Description
'Groundbreaking' OBSERVER
'Blows assumptions about abusive relationships out of the water' CAITLIN MORAN
'Offers a strategy for intervention that would save lives' INDEPENDENT
Every four days in the UK, a woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner - and in the past year, domestic abuse has become an epidemic.
For thirty years, Jane Monckton Smith has been fighting to change this. A former police officer and internationally renowned professor of public protection, she has developed her ground-breaking research into an eight-stage homicide timeline, laying out identifiable stages in which coercive relationships can escalate to violence and murder.
Drawing on disciplines including psychology, sociology and law, Monckton Smith talks to victims, their families and killers to piece together the hows and whys of abuse - while shining a searching light onto the society and media that allow it to thrive.
'Blows assumptions about abusive relationships out of the water' CAITLIN MORAN
'Offers a strategy for intervention that would save lives' INDEPENDENT
Every four days in the UK, a woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner - and in the past year, domestic abuse has become an epidemic.
For thirty years, Jane Monckton Smith has been fighting to change this. A former police officer and internationally renowned professor of public protection, she has developed her ground-breaking research into an eight-stage homicide timeline, laying out identifiable stages in which coercive relationships can escalate to violence and murder.
Drawing on disciplines including psychology, sociology and law, Monckton Smith talks to victims, their families and killers to piece together the hows and whys of abuse - while shining a searching light onto the society and media that allow it to thrive.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-1319-6 (9781526613196)
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Person
Dr Jane Monckton Smith is Professor of Public Protection at the University of Gloucestershire. She is internationally renowned for her research into homicide, coercive control and stalking. She has authored a new model for understanding and assessing risk of homicide in cases where there is domestic abuse. Her work is used widely in developing specialist practice for police and many other professionals. She is also involved in homicide case work, reviewing cases for the Home Office, and advising police and review panels on complex and high profile murders.
Content
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Dedication Page
- By The Same Author
- Title Page
- Contents
- Prologue: The Homicide Timeline
- Why won't she get in the ambulance?
- Introduction: The 'crime of passion' myth
- Vincent
- 'I just snapped'
- Solidarity
- Three questions
- Stage One: A history of control or stalking
- Karl
- Employing violence
- Blame
- Personality disorder and psychopathy
- Repeating patterns
- The power of history
- A domestic abuse register
- Making a history visible: reporting abuse and control
- Stage Two: The commitment whirlwind
- Love
- Astrid
- When there is no grand passion
- Speed and commitment
- Who is a victim?
- Stage Three: Living with control
- The jealousy code
- The loyalty code
- Sada
- Fear
- Victim strategies - Lara
- Simone
- Routine and ritual
- The web of control
- Sexual abuse
- Stage Four: Trigger
- Separation
- Devin
- Crossing the line
- Stage Five: Escalation
- Stalking
- Ruby
- Stage Six: A change in thinking
- 'I couldn't have hurt her, because I loved her.'
- The calm before the storm
- Stage Seven: Planning
- Edith and Walter
- Stage Eight: Homicide and/or suicide
- Recognising homicide and suicides
- After homicide
- Ben Butler
- Domestic Homicide Reviews
- Epilogue: A Final Word
- Copyright Page
