Gendered justice: Domestic homicide and the death penalty

Feminist Criminology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 170-188

  Messing, Jill Theresa ^a   Heeren, John W ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital punishment; Death penalty; Domestic homicide; Gender; Homicide; Killing children; Multiple murder; Murder; Separation homicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 64849096111     PISSN: 15570851     EISSN: 1557086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1557085108327657     Document Type: Article

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