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In Control: Dangerous relationships & how they end in murder

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In Control: Dangerous relationships & how they end in murder

SKU: 9781526613202 Categories: , Product ID: 165729

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Title: In Control: Dangerous relationships & how they end in murder
Author: SMITH JANE MONKTON
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 30/03/2021
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active

In the UK, every week three women are killed by their partners.

Over half the women killed by men are killed by a current or ex-partner.

On average domestic abuse victims are assaulted 68 times before calling the police.
There is a domestic violence epidemic happening right now, yet as a society we still turn a blind eye to it. In a culture that has normalised misogyny, we determinedly cling to the belief that domestic violence is a private matter in which both parties bear some responsibility. Even our legal system legitimises the idea that people who hurt or kill their partners have snapped and lost control, committed a ‘crime of passion’.

But domestic violence has a clear pattern. Jealousy. Controlling behaviour. Stalking. Verbal abuse. A history of violence.

Specialising in homicide, stalking and coercive control, internationally renowned forensic criminologist and former police officer Jane Monckton-Smith has spent decades researching domestic violence cases that have ended in homicide. From her research she developed an 8-stage timeline which has revolutionised the approach to predicting homicide in domestic abuse cases.

Part case study, part social commentary and part memoir of a woman dealing with domestic homicide, In Control shows that there are clear signs when a relationship is about to turn violent we’ve just been trained not to see them.

ISBN: 9781526613202
Pages: 256