Killing Women

Author : Rod Sadler
Publisher : WildBlue Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781952225284

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Killing Women by Rod Sadler Pdf

This true crime biography reveals the disturbing story of a serial killer who terrorized central Michigan—and now has a chance to go free. As a former youth pastor who attended the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice, Don Miller seemed like a decent young man. But in 1978, he was arrested for the attempted murder of two teenagers. Police soon connected Miller to the disappearances of four women. In exchange for a controversial plea bargain, he led police to the missing women’s bodies. Now, thanks to the deal he was offered and changes to Michigan law, Miller is allowed to seek parole once a year. In Killing Women, author Rodney Sadler examines the crimes, the “justice” meted out, and the possibility that Miller could be unleashed on the world once again.

Author : Belinda Morrissey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134510689

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When Women Kill by Belinda Morrissey Pdf

Why are we so reluctant to believe that women can mean to kill? Based on case-studies from the US, UK and Australia, this book looks at the ways in which female killers are constructed in the media, in law and in feminist discourse almost invariably as victims rather than actors in the crimes they commit. Morrissey argues that by denying the possibility of female agency in crimes of torture, rape and murder, feminist theorists are, with the best of intentions, actually denying women the full freedom to be human. Case studies cover among others the battered wife, Pamela Sainsbury, who garrotted her husband as he slept, the serial killer, Aileen Wournos, who killed seven middle-aged men in Florida between 1989 and 1990, Tracey Wiggington, the so-called "lesbian vampire killer", and Karla Homolka who helped her husband kill two teenage girls in St. Catherines Ontario in 1993.

Author : Rafael LuŽvano
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608331123

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Woman-killing in Jua‡rez by Rafael LuŽvano Pdf

A startling analysis of the killing of over 500 women in Ju rez to help readers understand the presence of suffering and evil. Making expert use of narrative theology, Prof. Lu vano uses the killing of over 500 women since 1993 in Ciudad Ju rez as a lens to examine and attempt to understand the role that suffering plays in God's love and relationship with humankind. The first three chapters that form Part I describe events in northern Mexico that provide the context for the killing of young women. The five chapters in the second part examine different themes within the broad context of theodicy the nature of God, the traditional teaching of the church, and contemporary theological approaches to human suffering (e.g., Soelle, Wiesel, Moltman).

Author : Annette Burfoot,Susan Lord
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780889205260

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Killing Women by Annette Burfoot,Susan Lord Pdf

The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book’s extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage with contemporary theories and practices of identity politics and debates about the ethics and politics of representation itself. Does representation produce or reproduce the conditions of violence? Is representation itself a form of violence? This book adds significant new dimensions to the characterization of gender and violence by discussing nationalism and war, feminist media, and the depiction of violence throughout society.

Author : L. Seal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230294509

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Women, Murder and Femininity by L. Seal Pdf

Women who kill rupture our assumptions about what a woman is. This book explores different socio-cultural understandings of women who commit, or are accused, of murder. A wide range of cases are discussed in order to highlight the ways in which such women have been perceived, and how such cases reflect important social and cultural shifts.

Author : Ann Jones
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080706775X

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Women who Kill by Ann Jones Pdf

A study of women murderers in America from precolonial times to the present reveals a social history of the United States in terms of the women who murdered and their crimes

Author : Diana Washington Valdez
Publisher : Peace at the Border
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780977799282

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The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women by Diana Washington Valdez Pdf

Explosive findings by a journalist's daring investigation into the systematic murders of girls and women in Juarez, Mexico.

Author : Elnora Worder
Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0533151880

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The Killing Fields of Third World Women by Elnora Worder Pdf

Author : Nicole Loraux
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0674902262

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Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman by Nicole Loraux Pdf

In ordinary life an Athenian woman was allowed no accomplishments beyond leading a quiet, exemplary existence as wife and mother. In Greek tragedy, however, women die violently and, through violence, master their fate. Through her reading of these texts, Loraux elicits an array of insights into Greek attitudes toward death, sexuality, and gender.

Author : Vickie Jensen
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Family violence
ISBN : 1588260275

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Why Women Kill by Vickie Jensen Pdf

Traditional homicide indicators are based on male violence - and do little to predict when, or whom, women will kill. Vickie Jensen shows that gender equality plays an important role in predicting female homicide patterns. Jensen's analysis of the occurrence of women's homicide reveals that lethal violence is most likely when severe gender inequalities exist in the family group. Her conclusions establish the clear relationship between political, economic, legal, and social equality for women and the reduction of all forms of domestic violence.

Author : Coramae Richey Mann
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791428117

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When Women Kill by Coramae Richey Mann Pdf

The volume explores every aspect of females who murdered - from arrest through sentencing - and provides descriptions of ecological and other circumstances of the murders, the victims, the motives of the perpetrators, and their fates in court. The generous utilization of case examples dramatically reveals three homicide scenarios. This exploratory, descriptive study compares 296 females arrested for homicide in six urban areas - Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, and New York City in 1979 and 1983. During field trips to these cities, which have the highest murder rates in the country, both qualitative and quantitative data were collected from police files, homicide records, FBI reports, and criminal information. Research analyses reveals a fascinating profile of today's female murderer. When Women Kill presents a comprehensive, yet highly readable, overview of this previously neglected subgroup of homicide offenders.

Author : Rachel M. McPherson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000966336

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Women Who Kill, Criminal Law and Domestic Abuse by Rachel M. McPherson Pdf

This book presents an informed, coherent and stimulating analysis of UK legal defences of homicide by victims of domestic abuse. Women killing following domestic abuse from a male partner is a significant category of homicide. In some areas of the UK it represents the most common context in which women kill. Yet, despite its significance, it is an aspect of homicide that remains under-researched within a UK context. Much of what is known about cases of this type comes from other jurisdictions. This book brings together a coherent understanding of the UK landscape in this area. It builds upon existing literature, particularly from the US, which has examined this issue from a practical perspective, using the lived experiences of practitioners involved in cases of this type. The collection combines the experiences of those in practice with academic expertise, pointing to potential sites of injustice that exist in this context and offering suggestions for reform. The volume will be a valuable guide for those involved in cases of this nature whilst also offering insight to those academics with an interest in homicide and legal responses to domestic abuse. The book will also be of interest to those working in the area of comparative criminal justice.

Author : David Roche,Cristelle Maury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350115613

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Women Who Kill by David Roche,Cristelle Maury Pdf

Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruction and a creative assertion of agency. In doing so, the contributors assess the influence of feminist, queer and gender studies on mainstream television and cinema, notably in the genres (film noir, horror, melodrama) that have received the most critical attention from this perspective. They also analyse the politics of representation by considering these works of fiction in their contexts and addressing some of the ambiguities raised by postfeminism. The book is structured in three parts: Neo-femmes Fatales; Action Babes and Monstrous Women. Films and series examined include White Men Are Cracking Up (1994); Hit & Miss (2012); Gone Girl (2014); Terminator (1984); The Walking Dead (2010); Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); Contagion (2011) and Ex Machina (2015) among others.

Author : Sheila Isenberg
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781635768077

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Women Who Love Men Who Kill by Sheila Isenberg Pdf

The “engrossing, thoroughly researched look at women who are in romantic relationships with incarcerated men”—fully updated with twenty-first-century cases (Publishers Weekly). In 1991, Sheila Isenberg’s classic study Women Who Love Men Who Kill asked the provocative question, “Why do women fall in love with convicted murderers?” Now, Isenberg returns to the same question in the age of smart phones, social media, mass shootings, and modern prison dating. The result is a compelling psychological study of prison passion in the new millennium. Isenberg conducts extensive interviews with women who seek relationships with convicted killers, as well as conversations with psychiatrists, social workers, and prison officials. She shows that many of these women know exactly what they are getting into—yet they are willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of a love without hope, promise, or consummation. This edition of Women Who Love Men Who Kill includes gripping new case studies and an absorbing look at how the digital age is revolutionizing this phenomenon. Meet the young women writing “fan fiction” featuring America’s most sadistic murderers; the killer serving consecutive life sentences for strangling his wife and smothering his toddler daughters—and the women who visit him in prison; the high-powered journalist who fell in love and risked it all for “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli; and many other women absorbed in online and real-life dalliances with their killer men.

Author : Ann Jones
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781558616523

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Women Who Kill by Ann Jones Pdf

This landmark study offers a rogues’ gallery of women—from the Colonial Era to the 20th century—who answered abuse and oppression with murder: “A classic” (Gloria Steinem). Women rarely resort to murder. But when they do, they are likely to kill their intimates: husbands, lovers, or children. In Women Who Kill, journalist Ann Jones explores these homicidal patters and what they reflect about women and our culture. She considers notorious cases such as axe-murderer Lizzie Borden, acquitted of killing her parents; Belle Gunness, the Indiana housewife turned serial killer; Ruth Snyder, the “adulteress” electrocuted for murdering her husband; and Jean Harris, convicted of shooting her lover, the famous “Scarsdale Diet doctor.” Looking beyond sensationalized figures, Jones uncovers different trends of female criminality through American history—trends that reveal the evolving forms of oppression and abuse in our culture. From the prevalence of infanticide in colonial days to the poisoning of husbands in the nineteenth century and the battered wives who fight back today, Jones recounts the tales of dozens of women whose stories, and reasons, would otherwise be lost to history. First published in 1980, Women Who Kill is a “provocative book” that “reminds us again that women are entitled to their rage.” This 30th anniversary edition from Feminist Press includes a new introduction by the author (New York Times Book Review).