eprintid: 10048266
rev_number: 25
eprint_status: archive
userid: 608
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datestamp: 2018-05-14 08:58:46
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type: article
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creators_name: Eriksson, L
creators_name: McPhedran, S
creators_name: Caman, S
creators_name: Mazerolle, P
creators_name: Wortley, RK
creators_name: Johnson, H
title: Criminal Careers Among Female Perpetrators of Family and Non-family Homicide in Australia
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: F52
keywords: Homicide, criminology, violent offenders, women offenders, criminal careers
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: Knowledge of women’s pathways to serious offending, including homicide, is limited. This study contributes to a small but growing body of literature examining the criminal careers of serious female offenders by using interview data with females convicted of murder or manslaughter in Australia to examine various dimensions of their criminal careers, specifically, prevalence, frequency, age of onset, duration, and offending variety. In particular, in this study we compared criminal career dimensions across women who had killed a family member (e.g., intimate partner, children) and those whose victims were not part of the family unit (i.e., acquaintances or strangers). Our findings reveal differences between female homicide offenders who kill within and outside of the family unit. Although both groups had comparable overall lifetime prevalence of self-reported participation in criminal offending, findings indicate that participation among the family group was typically at low levels of frequency, of limited duration, and with relatively little variety in categories of offending. The family group also reported lower contact with the criminal justice system compared with the nonfamily group, and were less likely to have experienced some form of criminal/legal sanction in the 12 months prior to the homicide incident. This suggests that women who kill family members are more “conventional” than their nonfamily counterparts, in terms of having low and time-limited (i.e., short duration) lifetime participation in criminal offending.
date: 2018-04-02
date_type: published
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518760007
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Article
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elements_id: 1555132
doi: 10.1177/0886260518760007
lyricists_name: Wortley, Richard
lyricists_id: RKWOR37
actors_name: Stacey, Thomas
actors_id: TSSTA20
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
citation:        Eriksson, L;    McPhedran, S;    Caman, S;    Mazerolle, P;    Wortley, RK;    Johnson, H;      (2018)    Criminal Careers Among Female Perpetrators of Family and Non-family Homicide in Australia.                   Journal of Interpersonal Violence        10.1177/0886260518760007 <https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518760007>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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