R. Emerson Dobash's research while affiliated with The University of Manchester and other places
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Publications (84)
This chapter draws on data from the Murder in Britain Study to examine male perpetrators and compare family to nonfamily perpetrators. These comparisons were examined in terms of the nature of relationships, the murder event and the life course of the perpetrators. The results suggest these perpetrators experienced adversity in childhood and proble...
Worldwide, most murders are committed by men against other men, followed by murders in which men murder women. The imbalance is greatest in societies with high rates of homicide but still exists in those with low rates of homicide. As such, it is necessary to disaggregate homicide data by gender in order to gain knowledge about the murder of women,...
Evidence about 105 men convicted of murdering an intimate partner and comparisons between men with and without a previous
conviction prior to the murder (PrevConv = 79 versus NoPrevConv = 25; NB, one missing case because no information about previous
convictions) reveal many differences in childhood and adult circumstances and contacts with profess...
Domestic violence is characterized by a recent history of rapid social change in institutional policy and practice. The problem is primarily one of men's violence against women and a considerable proportion of women have experienced this type of physical and sexual violence. Physical injuries are often severe and women may suffer from persistent he...
Margo Wilson was a consummate scientist and an extraordinary person. In this short piece, we reflect on her qualities as a scholar and consider the nature of her legacy within the context of our three decades of work with her and Martin Daly, her personal and research partner. Within the broad context of the “sociology of knowledge,” we focus on th...
Using data from the Murder in Britain Study, the authors focus on murders that are related to intimate partner conflict but involve the killing of a person other than the intimate partner. Intimate partner collateral murders (IPCM) include children, allies, and new partners. The findings expand the number and types of murder associated with intimat...
The focus is on cognitions of men who murder an intimate partner and includes thinking prior to and after the murder. Based on the Murder in Britain Study, the qualitative accounts of various professionals included in the case-files of 104 men convicted of murdering a woman partner are used to examine beliefs about intimate relationships, orientati...
Letters from Britain and Europe were compiled and edited by Rebecca Emerson Dobash and Russell Dobash and includes contributions from the following: Scotland-Monica Wilson, formerly codirector of CHANGE and now Advisor to the Caledonian System, currently being developed by the Scottish government; Dave Morran, former codirector of CHANGE, now Lectu...
It came “out of the blue” is often said when a man with no known history of criminality kills his intimate partner. This reflects a belief that a “conventional man” without a criminogenic past or a problematic personal history would not commit murder. Casefiles from the Murder in Britain Study are used to compare men with no previous conviction (No...
Although the developmental perspective has become a leading paradigm in criminology, little attention has been paid to the onset of offending and life course of murderers within this tradition. We use bivariate and Multiple Correspondence Analysis to investigate the life course and criminal careers of three onset groups among a UK sample of 786 men...
This study examined the backgrounds of fathers who fatally abuse their children and the contexts within which these homicides occur. The type of relationship between victim, perpetrator, and the victim's mother was a particular interest.
Data were gathered from 26 cases of fatal child abuse perpetrated by fathers derived from the wider Murder in Br...
Men's lethal and nonlethal violence against an intimate female partner are compared. Various risk factors are examined to compare men's lethal and nonlethal violence against an intimate woman partner. Relative to abusers, men who kill are generally more conventional with respect to childhood backgrounds, education, employment, and criminal careers,...
The Murder in Britain Study was designed to examine in detail different types of murder. Using a subset of case files from this study, men who murder other men (MM;n = 424) are compared with men who murder an intimate partner (IP;n = 106) to reflect on the relative conventionality of each group. In terms of many of the characteristics of childhood...
Different notions among researchers about the nature of intimate partner violence have long been the subjects of popular and academic debate. Research findings are contradictory and point in two directions, with some revealing that women are as likely as men to perpetrate violence against an intimate partner (symmetry) and others showing that it is...
Die Forschung zur Problematik der Gewalt zwischen Intimpartnern in heterosexuellen Beziehungen stand seit ihren Anfängen in den 1970 er Jahren im Zeichen von Auseinandersetzungen und Kontroversen.1 Fast alle Aspekte des Forschungsprozesses sind ebenso umstritten wie die verschiedenen sozial- und rechtspolitischen Maßnahmen mit dem Ziel, geeignete u...
Domestic violence is characterized by a recent history of rapid social change in institutional policy and practice. The problem is primarily one of men's violence against women and a considerable proportion of women have experienced this type of physical and sexual violence. Physical injuries are often severe and women may suffer from persistent he...
This article is based on qualitative and quantitative data derived from 53 interviews conducted with Greek battered women. It documents information on the structural and dynamic aspects of the 'Last Violent Event' experienced by them before they sought help from various services. A structured, open-ended but systematically mannered interview schedu...
This exploratory study conducted from 1997 to 1998 is the first study to empirically investigate Greek battered women's help-seeking behavior from informal sources of help. In-depth interviews were conducted with 17 abused women in the only refuge for battered women in Athens. Results of this study indicate that Greek women tend to suffer years of...
Based on interviews with 122 men who had used violence against their partner, and employing Goffman's (1971) concept of ‘remedial work’, this paper interrogates violent men's perceptions, constructions and understandings of domestic violence and their responses to its use. Accounts of women partners are also examined. ‘Remedial work’ involves the p...
Based on interviews with 122 men who had used violence against their partner, and employing Goffman's (1971) concept of `remedial work', this paper interrogates violent men's perceptions, constructions and understandings of domestic violence and their responses to its use. Accounts of women partners are also examined. `Remedial work' involves the p...
Can the law be usefully employed to help women who experience domestic violence achieve 'justice'? This question has been at the heart of debates about domestic violence over the last few decades. In this paper, we review the positions of those who cautiously welcome engagement with the law - 'feminist realists', arrest studies researchers, 'scepti...
The instrumental use of steroids and analogous drugs is a normalised practice in bodybuilding subculture. However, in a society where bodily health and lifestyle are conjoined, such risk- taking carries negative connotations. Bodybuilders using drugs for purposes of physique enhancement are able to resist accusations of opprobrium and maintain comp...
In this article, the authors consider various approaches to the evaluation of criminal justice interventions in the area of domestic violence. Evaluations have been conducted on a range of interventions, but this article focuses particularly on evaluations of arrest and programs for violent abusers. The authors contrast randomized designs used in t...
This article addresses the neglected question of what women who experience 'domestic violence' want from the law and examines the ways in which women actively engage with the legal system. Viewing women as agents trying to survive abuse, we examine their interaction with both civil and criminal legal systems as part of their 'active negotiation and...
In the last two decades there have been a number of social, medical and legal initiatives in the UK and elsewhere to provide assistance to women who suffer violence from their partner. The most recent innovations focus on responding to the men who perpetrate this violence. In this article we present the initial results of the first British study of...
In the late 1980s the British media discovered a new and apparently widespread social problem —‘roid rage’. The phenomena of ‘roid rage’, uncontrollable malevolent aggression and violence, was reputedly linked to the use or abuse of anabolic androgenic steroids. As in the classic moral panic, the media, institutions of the state and various ‘expert...
The authors seek to contribute to a fuller understanding of men's violence against women in intimate relationships by comparing men's and women's accounts of the violence, injuries, and controlling behavior used by men against women partners. Although men and women inhabit a shared physical and social space within the home, their lived experiences...
Examines violent acts and violent actors in the context of a marital relationship delineating the conflicts of interest between intimate partners that focus on issues such as domestic work, money, children, alcohol, possessiveness and jealousy, restrictions of social life, sex, and male power and authority. We identify a constellation of violence m...
A currently fashionable claim is that violence against husbands is about as prevalent as violence against wives; spousal violence has been said to be symmetrical in its extent, severity, intentions, motivational contexts, and even its consequences. The evidence for this alleged symmetry derives from two sources: (1) surveys employing the "Conflict...
Women Viewing Violence is a pathbreaking book which develops an innovative analysis of the responses of women to violence on television. Drawing upon group interviews, both with women who have experienced violence and with women who have not, the authors have uncovered the complex patterns of response to television's depiction of men's violence aga...
Most evidence on public perception and experience of criminal justice is based on research from the United States and this work is rarely comparative. This paper presents results of a comparative analysis of young people's contacts with and perceptions of criminal justice in Scotland and West Germany. Comparisons are made of criminal justice approa...
In charting the discovery of the problem of wife abuse, the building of a social movement, and the formulation of responses in Great Britain and the USA, it is only possible in this chapter to touch upon some of the most important events and issues within the larger struggle for change. In both countries, the battered women’s (BW) movement emerged...
Here we analyze the forms of community and institutional responses to the problem of wife beating. The regulation of domestic affairs in European communities is traced from the fifteenth century to the present. The historical analysis begins with direct and personal responses of members of the community, such as misrules and charivaris, and traces...
"Love, honour and obey", the phrase is now often deleted from the marriage vows, but still stands as confirmation of the fact that the woman enters into the state of marriage in a secondary, subservient position. This omission may reflect the current concern about the position of women in marriage and society, but it does not reflect a change in th...
Presents evidence from diverse sources to document the prevalence of violence directed at wives in contemporary societies. Analysis of police and court records and of interviews with women who have been beaten by their husbands shows that the incidence of wife beating is high, and that it is firmly associated with the domination, control, and chast...
Obra en que se estudia la violencia contra las mujeres en su papel de esposas como la expresión explícita de la dominación patriarcal que las controla y oprime. El examen se hace desde el contexto cultural, explorando la forma en que los procesos económicos y sociales permiten la reproducción de los esquemas del patriarcado, de manera directa o ind...
Citations
... The ability to humiliate and punish women online resembles radical feminist arguments surrounding ideologies of ownership, the right to punish, and fear of rape (Griffin, 1979;Dobash and Dobash, 1998). IBSA can, and has, been used to control women (Channel 4, 2015). ...
... -A woman, aged 29 (in an interview) Although not everyone has been the victim of a crime, criminal acts may touch upon everyone. Those fortunate enough not to have been victimized, nor to know someone who has, will have probably read, watched, or listened to news, film, television, or social media stories about those who have been victimized (Dobash & Dobash, 2003;Ferraro, 1996). Repeated exposure to criminal events and the aftereffects of such events, on the whole, may come to be a powerful socializing force affecting people both directly and indirectly. ...
... For example, Mannan (2003, p.26) states, ' […] it was only when the torture became unbearable, or the women became ill that most women talked about being beaten by their husbands'. This attitude is further explained in Dobash & Dobash (2003) who argue that women leave home not to end the marital relationship, but for a brief period in order to escape violence as well as to negotiate and rebuild the relationship on a non-violent basis. Because of societal tolerance towards wife abuse in Bangladesh woman has to accept marital violence. ...
... Community structures, including the family, neighbours and community leaders, have the potential to contest or reinforce IPV in both refugee and non-refugee settings (Carlson, 2005;Dobash & Dobash, 2005). Cultural and traditional norms influence whether women report assaults, as well as the support she (and the perpetrator) receives, and community mechanisms for responding to IPV (Bhuyan & Senturia, 2005;Kim & Motsei, 2002;Sullivan, Senturia, Negash, Shiu-Thornton, & Giday, 2005). ...
... Self-esteem has been hypothesized as a possible rationale for becoming a bodybuilder (McGrath & Chananie-Hill, 2009). The acquisition of muscle is suggested as increasing a woman's selfconfidence through feelings of power, control, health, and sexiness (Fisher, 1997; Grogan, Evans, Wright, & Hunter, 2004; Monaghan, Bloor, Dobash, & Dobash, 1998). Furthermore, some scholars have suggested that women choose bodybuilding as an act of archetypical rebellion from which they find empowerment (Heywood, 1998; Wesley, 2001). ...
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... Although results vary, counselling programs have been found to be effective in reducing violence. [9][10][11] While the Freedom From Fear campaign has been successful in attracting violent and potentially violent men to call the MDVHL and accept a referral into counselling, 7 little is known about the impact of the telephone contact per se. This is an important issue as many men who call the MDVHL do not accept a referral, and many who do accept a referral do not present for the counselling. ...
... From that, gender norms rose, attributing to women the private sphere and caring roles and men the public space, related to power and control (Butler, 2017;Federici, 2013). This dichotomy is often a narrative confronted to establish new ways of approaching the patterns of victimisation (Buiten & Naidoo, 2020;Dobash & Dobash, 2015). It is also a narrative that shapes peoples' binary thinking and evaluations from a reductionist perspective, narrowing the alternatives to freedom (Inglehart, Ponarin, & Inglehart, 2017). ...
... According to Dobash and Dobash (1979), in sixteenth-century England, devotion to fathers and husbands was equated with love for the king and God. In the United States, IPV was not taken seriously until the 1970s, when feminist activists started to raise awareness of the problem and push for legal and social reforms (Dobash & Dobash, 2018). ...
Reference: Intimate Partner Violence and Honor Killings
... F emicide-the murder of a woman motivated, at least in part, because of her gender-is a gendered phenomenon, a public health issue and human rights violation (UNODC, 2022;WHO, 2002). As with other forms of domestic violence, femicide is underreported, underinvestigated, and underprosecuted (Biehler-Gomez et al, 2022;Dobash and Dobash, 2017;Fernández, 2012). Most of the data, statistics, and research on femicide are quantitative in nature (Stö ckl et al, 2013); although evidence-based risk factors exist both for experiencing and perpetrating intimate partner violence (IPV), there is a gap in understanding how perpetrators of gender-based violence (GBV) make sense of the aggression. ...
... One example is that behaviors representing emotional appeals are of specific interest within domestic violence. One behavior of abusers is to excuse their abuse with pity seeking 'remedial behavior' (Cavanagh et al., 2001). The function of these behaviors is analogous to supplication (Bolino & Turnley, 1999). ...
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