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Homicide-Suicides in Romania

Statistical Data and Media Representations

by Ecaterina Balica (Author)
©2016 Monographs 210 Pages

Summary

This book examines homicide-suicides in a post-communist country in South-East Europe. It presents results regarding risk factors and particularities of homicide-suicides in Romania committed in the period 2002–2013.
The author analyses statistical data from legal records, police registers, and online newspapers discussing the way in which the victims and aggressors of homicide-suicides are represented. She completed the data by investigating six penitentiaries in Romania regarding the risk factors specific to various types of homicide-suicide: intimate partner femicide-suicides, familicide-suicides, filicide-suicides and homicide-suicides committed by police officers.

Details

Pages
210
Year
2016
ISBN (ePUB)
9783631695760
ISBN (PDF)
9783653062854
ISBN (MOBI)
9783631695777
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631667224
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-06285-4
Language
English
Publication date
2021 (June)
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2016. 210 pp., 19 b/w tables

Biographical notes

Ecaterina Balica (Author)

Ecaterina Balica is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Romanian Academy and the coordinator of the Laboratory "Violence and Crime. Prevention and Mediation". Her main research interests are: homicide, femicide, homicide-suicide, migration and crime, violent crime, and restorative justice.

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