Homicide in Victoria: Female Perpetrators of Murder and Manslaughter, 1860 to 1920

Nagy, Victoria

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“…Moreover, female offenders have fewer previous criminal records. [ 29 ] Another difference is that women more often commit crimes at home, [ 30 ] which is the most common murder scene in general, but especially so for female offenders. Of every 10 murder cases, nearly 9 occurred at home.…”

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Males with low income and catastrophic illnesses are important risk factors for in-hospital homicide-related deaths in Taiwan from 1998 to 2015: A cross-sectional study

Chwo

Huang

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Medicine

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This study aimed to investigate not only the differences in in-hospital deaths between male and female homicides in Taiwan from 1998 to 2015, but also the epidemiological characteristics and long-term trend analysis. We collected data on 76,125 hospitalized patients injured in attempted homicides from January 1, 1998, to December 31, 2015, from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), identifying 59,161 male and 16,694 female patients. Age, gender, and index date match. Multiple logistic regression was used to analyze the risks of gender differences in terms of homicide. The death risk of male patients was 1.673 times that of female patients and the mortality risk of low-income male patients was 3.447 times greater than that of non–low-income male patients. Moreover, the in-hospital death risk was 23.584 and 5.064 times higher for male and female patients with catastrophic illness, respectively, compared to patients with noncritical diseases. There is a higher trend of male than female patients hospitalized after an attempted homicide. Gender differences are significantly related to homicide, with males having a higher risk of death risk from homicide than females, especially in terms of low-income and catastrophic illness.

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Males with low income and catastrophic illnesses are important risk factors for in-hospital homicide-related deaths in Taiwan from 1998 to 2015: A cross-sectional study

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“…Violent offending and imprisonment for all forms of offences were decreasing in Victoria between 1860 and 1920 Nagy 2017, 2018). Homicide rates for men and women were at 0.5 per 100,000 by 1920; these had remained stable for women and dropped from 3.5 per 100,000 for men from 1860 (Nagy 2021). In contrast, the rates of convictions for filicide were increasing during the same period.…”

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“…These techniques are not typically employed by historians, so there is an opportunity for criminologists to draw upon a rich source of historical material in their current explorations of infanticide, filicide and familicide. Historical criminology has not been utilised to the same extent or manner in Australia as in the UK or Europe (Nagy 2021) and certainly has not been applied to criminological studies of filicide. This article intends to adopt historical criminology to rectify this situation.…”

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“…Although they were found to be not guilty by a jury, they were often treated in a similar fashion to those found guilty by prison authorities and in administrative data prepared for State officials. Juries would sometimes return an NGRI verdict where they were convinced that the crime had taken place as presented by the prosecution but did not wish to see the man or woman sentenced to death (Nagy 2021;Rychner 2017).…”

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Longitudinal Analysis of Australian Filicide Perpetration Trends: Filicide in Victoria, 1860–1920

Nagy

Rychner

2021

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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The historical examination of filicide in Australia is limited and often focuses on case studies of maternal filicides. Longitudinal trends of Australian filicide offending have focused almost exclusively on the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Our study aims to fill a gap in Australian criminological knowledge about filicide. Utilising prison and Supreme Court records from 1860 and 1920, we plot the extent of filicide offending by men and women in Victoria to create a more comprehensive picture of filicide perpetration. This study also tests whether identified motives and risk factors for filicide today can be applied to historical data, to make these data accessible to criminologists studying filicide in the twenty-first century.

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“…And the fact that she was Anglo-Celtic made her typical, as 96 percent of the women tried for IP homicide in early twentieth century NSW shared her ancestry. Yet, the rural location of her fatal "feud" was a factor that did make a difference to the outcome of this case, a feature largely overlooked in studies of gender and IP homicide (Nagy 2021).…”

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Gender, intimate partner homicide, and rurality in early-twentieth-century New South Wales

2022

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Rural criminological literature on lethal domestic violence and feminist historical research on the patriarchal judgment of women accused of killing male intimate partners (IPs) have developed a dystopic image of the past for nonurban women. This paper questions that impression by asking whether women were more likely than men to be convicted of IP murder, and whether rural women were treated more harshly than urban women. Through quantitative analysis of 221 IP murder trials in New South Wales, 1901–1955, plus four representative case studies, it reveals that women tried for IP murders in rural areas were treated more leniently than their urban counterparts and significantly less harshly than male perpetrators of IP homicide. This paper demonstrates how historical criminological analysis of illustrative qualitative evidence, grounded in quantitative data on locational distinctions, can expose significant variations over time and place in the fate of abused women prosecuted for IP homicide.

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Homicide in Victoria: Female Perpetrators of Murder and Manslaughter, 1860 to 1920

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Males with low income and catastrophic illnesses are important risk factors for in-hospital homicide-related deaths in Taiwan from 1998 to 2015: A cross-sectional study

Males with low income and catastrophic illnesses are important risk factors for in-hospital homicide-related deaths in Taiwan from 1998 to 2015: A cross-sectional study

Longitudinal Analysis of Australian Filicide Perpetration Trends: Filicide in Victoria, 1860–1920

Gender, intimate partner homicide, and rurality in early-twentieth-century New South Wales

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