"Out of the blue": Men who murder an intimate partner

Feminist Criminology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 194-225

  Emerson Dobash, R ^a   Dobash, Russell P ^a   Cavanagh, Kate ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"Out of the blue"; Homicide; Intimate partner homicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949170528     PISSN: 15570851     EISSN: 1557086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1557085109332668     Document Type: Article

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