TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Attempted and completed parricides in South Africa, 1990-2019
JO  - International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
A1  - Moen, Melanie
A1  - Shon, Phillip
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Previous studies of parricide have been carried out predominantly in a Western context, in North America, Australia, and Western Europe. To date, only a handful of studies in parricide have been conducted in continental Africa. Previous studies in Ghana and Zimbabwe note that there may be culture-specific ways in which parricides may be shaped by the norms and cultural beliefs systems within those respective countries. Missing from the literature is an examination of parricides in South Africa. Using newspapers and court records, this article examines the offense and offender characteristics of parricides in South Africa. Our findings suggest that residential patterns of families may shape the offense characteristics found in South African parricides.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0306-624X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X20928023
ID  - ref1
ER  -