RT Article
T1 Parricide, Mental Illness, and Parental Proximity: The Gendered Contexts of Parricide in England and Wales
JF Violence against women
VO 29
IS 2
SP 87
OP 111
A1 Miles, Caroline
A2 Condry, Rachel
A2 Windsor, Elspeth
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1831110555
AB Parricide is underresearched in the UK, and the contexts of this gendered form of violence are poorly understood. Heide’s typology provides an advanced understanding of parricide in the United States, where the majority of parent-killings involve firearms. This article develops a UK-based analysis of the contexts of parricide, combining national statistics with police case study data (n = 57) and case review data (n = 21). Our findings indicate that mental illness plays a key role, combined with a gendered context of “parental proximity” and the simultaneous responsibilization and marginalization of parent-victims (particularly mothers), supporting the need for feminist analyses of parricide.
K1 Mental Illness
K1 parental proximity
K1 Femicide
K1 matricide
K1 parricide
DO 10.1177/10778012221077127