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dc.contributor.authorKaladelfos, Andy
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T16:13:04Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T16:13:04Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.modified2014-04-11T05:44:32Z
dc.identifier.issn14443058
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14443058.2013.813574
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/58325
dc.description.abstractFeminist scholars have produced an extensive literature on the social, economic, psychological, and criminological aspects of female infanticide. By contrast, there have been few historical studies of fathers who have murdered their children. This article analyses the problem of paternal filicide in three ways. First, it contextualises state responses to child homicide in relation to the government's wider treatment of violence in the home. Second, it analyses men's stated motivations for child murder, highlighting the significance of their conceptions of fatherhood and family to their violent actions. And finally, it interrogates onlookers' understandings of male violence, showing that the family was central to the boundaries onlookers drew between understandable and incomprehensible violence. Overall, the article shows that fathers' violent acts stemmed from significantly different social pressures to maternal child killing. The various interpretations of male violence tell us much about historical understandings of fathers' responsibilities, men's family roles, and the place of violence in the home.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom333
dc.relation.ispartofpageto348
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Australian Studies
dc.relation.ispartofvolume37
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical Studies not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode210399
dc.titleThe Dark Side of the Family: Paternal Child Homicide in Australia
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
gro.date.issued2013
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorKaladelfos, Andy


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