Neil Websdale
Biographic Data
| ID | 207139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Websdale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Websdale |
| SIGNATURE | WEBSDALE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Arizona University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias: Gray Mist Killings
This book explores dementia-related aggression, violence, and homicide through a detailed analysis of “gray mist killings.” The term gray mist killing refers to intimate partner homicides (IPHs) committed by spouses/partners suffering from dementia, homicides of dementia sufferers committed by their caregiving spouses/partners or other family members, and IPHs attributable to the complications of caring for a co-resident family member suffering f…
Making Trouble: Cultural Constructions of Crime, Deviance, and Control
Making Trouble: Cultural Constraints of Crime, Deviance, and Control
Of Nuclear Missiles and Love Objects: The Humiliated Fury of Kevin Jones
This article reports the case of a young military police officer who murdered his fiancée. The dominant wisdom is that men kill their female partners as an expression of their power and control or because their power and control is ebbing. Employing a sociological imagination and Avery Gordon's notion of haunting, the author draws on feminist and social psychological discourses to highlight the contextual importance of the power relations of gend…
Battered Women at Risk: A Rejoinder to Jacquelyn Hauser's and Jacquelyn Campbell's Commentaries on “R & B”
I am grateful to Jacquelyn Hauser and Jacquelyn Campbell for responding so thoughtfully to the dialogue I wrote concerning fatality review. In writing “R & B” as a fictionalized conversation, I wanted to explore issues that are perhaps more difficult to get at using traditional scholarly devices. The commentators target different aspects of the dialogue. Hauser (2005) focuses on the tensions between the researcher (R) and the battered woman (B) o…
R & B: A Conversation Between a Researcher and a Battered Woman About Domestic Violence Fatality Review
The conversation that unfolds takes place at a restaurant between an imaginary researcher, R, and an imaginary battered woman, B. The researcher embodies some of the traits of researchers in general and particularly those who stray into the arena of domestic violence fatality review. The battered woman lives with her three teenage children, works as a secretary at a university, and has just completed her master’s degree in Women’s Studies. R and …
Overcoming Violence Against Women and Girls: The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide Problem
Controlling the Dangerous Classes: A Critical Introduction to the History of Criminal Justice
Understanding Domestic Homicide
This groundbreaking examination of murder among intimate partners considers domestic homicides in all their guises -- not just those occurring between sexual partners but the killing of children, parents, and siblings as well. Unlike previous studies of domestic killings, which focus on statistical findings, the work illuminates the complex factors that motivate intimate partner murders. Drawing on extensive documentary sources and field research…
Rural Woman Battering and the Justice System: An Ethnography
The author shows how an insidious old boys network within the official institutions, including the courts, the police and local politics, perpetuates the unjust and sometimes violent treatment of women in rural situations
Have Faith, Will Travel: Implementing Full Faith and Credit Under the 1994 Violence Against Women Act
In this exploratory article we draw attention to the full faith and credit guarantees offered by the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). We begin by noting the significance of new interstate protections for battered women in light of the difficulties and dangers they face as they flee across state lines in search of safety. We argue that full faith and credit guarantees are a progressive development in the struggle against domestic violence. …
The policing of domestic violence in rural and urban areas: The voices of battered women in Kentucky
Two main lacunae in the literature on domestic violence and its policing set the stage for our research. The first is the absence of the "voices of women" and the publication of their opinions and perceptions of police performance at domestic disputes. The second is the failure to address rural domestic violence and its policing. Using ethnographic research as a starting point, we formulate two propositions that guide the current research project…
Predators: The Social Construction of “Stranger-Danger” in Washington State as a Form of Patriarchal Ideology
The article critically examines Washington State's Predator Law (1990). The most controversial part of the law provides for the indefinite civil commitment of “sexually violent predators.” Under the legislation, husbands who victimize their wives and children cannot be defined as predators, I argue that the social construction of predators as sick strangers is an ideological construct. This non-conspiratorial construct diverts attention from the …
Rural Woman Abuse: The Voices of Kentucky Women
Using an ethnographic method that relies heavily on 85 in-depth interviews, 50 of them with rural battered women, this article provides rich empirical data on the much-neglected topic of rural woman abuse in Kentucky. My interviews indicate women experience a considerable amount of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse by their husbands or partners. I contextualize this intimate violence against the physical and social isolation that characterize…
Police history and the question of gender: The case of Eugene, Oregon in the post world war two Era
This article employs pro‐feminist approaches to explore the historic failure of the Eugene Police Department (EPD) to confront interpersonal violence against women. I tap a variety of sources including oral histories, crime statistics, newspaper reports, city council meeting minutes, divorce case data and police department annual reports to construct a history of policing in post World War Two Eugene, Oregon. I argue that the rationalization and …
Nonpolicing, policing and progressivism in eugene, oregon
This article employs cultural Marxist and feminist approaches to assess the relationship between the nonpolicing and policing of class and gender relations during the Progressive Era in Eugene, Oregon, USA. A selective review of the literature on the history of policing prefaces an outline of local history in Eugene. I describe the rationalization of the Eugene Police Department during the Progressive Era. I then ask why the social harm caused by…
Making sense of civil service reform: Policing, politics and power in Eugene, Oregon during the great depression
In February 1936, a vice scandal rocked the town of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A. Evidence was produced to show that local police had allowed gambling and prostitution to continue contrary to law. Within a year, civil service rules had been introduced at the Eugene Police Department. These rules ‘reformed’ policing by breaking the direct links between police and ward politicians. By accessing a range of primary source materials including newspapers, ora…
Disciplining the non‐disciplinary spaces, the rise of policing as an aspect of governmentality in 19th century Eugene, Oregon
The history of policing has been typically written through a conservative, liberal‐progressive or instrumentalist Marxist lens. The insights of poststructuralism have been slow to penetrate our understanding of law enforcement history. This paper attempts to move towards a poststructuralist analysis of the rise of policing in the town of Eugene, Oregon (USA). It begins with an analysis of the relationship between policing and what Foucault has ca…
The policing of domestic violence in rural and urban areas: The voices of battered women in Kentucky
Two main lacunae in the literature on domestic violence and its policing set the stage for our research. The first is the absence of the "voices of women" and the publication of their opinions and perceptions of police performance at domestic disputes. The second is the failure to address rural domestic violence and its policing. Using ethnographic research as a starting point, we formulate two propositions that guide the current research project…
Rural Woman Abuse: The Voices of Kentucky Women
Using an ethnographic method that relies heavily on 85 in-depth interviews, 50 of them with rural battered women, this article provides rich empirical data on the much-neglected topic of rural woman abuse in Kentucky. My interviews indicate women experience a considerable amount of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse by their husbands or partners. I contextualize this intimate violence against the physical and social isolation that characterize…
Disciplining the non‐disciplinary spaces, the rise of policing as an aspect of governmentality in 19th century Eugene, Oregon
The history of policing has been typically written through a conservative, liberal‐progressive or instrumentalist Marxist lens. The insights of poststructuralism have been slow to penetrate our understanding of law enforcement history. This paper attempts to move towards a poststructuralist analysis of the rise of policing in the town of Eugene, Oregon (USA). It begins with an analysis of the relationship between policing and what Foucault has ca…
Nonpolicing, policing and progressivism in eugene, oregon
This article employs cultural Marxist and feminist approaches to assess the relationship between the nonpolicing and policing of class and gender relations during the Progressive Era in Eugene, Oregon, USA. A selective review of the literature on the history of policing prefaces an outline of local history in Eugene. I describe the rationalization of the Eugene Police Department during the Progressive Era. I then ask why the social harm caused by…
Making sense of civil service reform: Policing, politics and power in Eugene, Oregon during the great depression
In February 1936, a vice scandal rocked the town of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A. Evidence was produced to show that local police had allowed gambling and prostitution to continue contrary to law. Within a year, civil service rules had been introduced at the Eugene Police Department. These rules ‘reformed’ policing by breaking the direct links between police and ward politicians. By accessing a range of primary source materials including newspapers, ora…
Overcoming Violence Against Women and Girls: The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide Problem
Disciplining the non‐disciplinary spaces, the rise of policing as an aspect of governmentality in 19th century Eugene, Oregon
The history of policing has been typically written through a conservative, liberal‐progressive or instrumentalist Marxist lens. The insights of poststructuralism have been slow to penetrate our understanding of law enforcement history. This paper attempts to move towards a poststructuralist analysis of the rise of policing in the town of Eugene, Oregon (USA). It begins with an analysis of the relationship between policing and what Foucault has ca…
Making sense of civil service reform: Policing, politics and power in Eugene, Oregon during the great depression
In February 1936, a vice scandal rocked the town of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A. Evidence was produced to show that local police had allowed gambling and prostitution to continue contrary to law. Within a year, civil service rules had been introduced at the Eugene Police Department. These rules ‘reformed’ policing by breaking the direct links between police and ward politicians. By accessing a range of primary source materials including newspapers, ora…
Nonpolicing, policing and progressivism in eugene, oregon
This article employs cultural Marxist and feminist approaches to assess the relationship between the nonpolicing and policing of class and gender relations during the Progressive Era in Eugene, Oregon, USA. A selective review of the literature on the history of policing prefaces an outline of local history in Eugene. I describe the rationalization of the Eugene Police Department during the Progressive Era. I then ask why the social harm caused by…
Rural Woman Abuse: The Voices of Kentucky Women
Using an ethnographic method that relies heavily on 85 in-depth interviews, 50 of them with rural battered women, this article provides rich empirical data on the much-neglected topic of rural woman abuse in Kentucky. My interviews indicate women experience a considerable amount of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse by their husbands or partners. I contextualize this intimate violence against the physical and social isolation that characterize…
Police history and the question of gender: The case of Eugene, Oregon in the post world war two Era
This article employs pro‐feminist approaches to explore the historic failure of the Eugene Police Department (EPD) to confront interpersonal violence against women. I tap a variety of sources including oral histories, crime statistics, newspaper reports, city council meeting minutes, divorce case data and police department annual reports to construct a history of policing in post World War Two Eugene, Oregon. I argue that the rationalization and …
Predators: The Social Construction of “Stranger-Danger” in Washington State as a Form of Patriarchal Ideology
The article critically examines Washington State's Predator Law (1990). The most controversial part of the law provides for the indefinite civil commitment of “sexually violent predators.” Under the legislation, husbands who victimize their wives and children cannot be defined as predators, I argue that the social construction of predators as sick strangers is an ideological construct. This non-conspiratorial construct diverts attention from the …
The policing of domestic violence in rural and urban areas: The voices of battered women in Kentucky
Two main lacunae in the literature on domestic violence and its policing set the stage for our research. The first is the absence of the "voices of women" and the publication of their opinions and perceptions of police performance at domestic disputes. The second is the failure to address rural domestic violence and its policing. Using ethnographic research as a starting point, we formulate two propositions that guide the current research project…
Rural Woman Battering and the Justice System: An Ethnography
The author shows how an insidious old boys network within the official institutions, including the courts, the police and local politics, perpetuates the unjust and sometimes violent treatment of women in rural situations
Have Faith, Will Travel: Implementing Full Faith and Credit Under the 1994 Violence Against Women Act
In this exploratory article we draw attention to the full faith and credit guarantees offered by the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). We begin by noting the significance of new interstate protections for battered women in light of the difficulties and dangers they face as they flee across state lines in search of safety. We argue that full faith and credit guarantees are a progressive development in the struggle against domestic violence. …
Understanding Domestic Homicide
This groundbreaking examination of murder among intimate partners considers domestic homicides in all their guises -- not just those occurring between sexual partners but the killing of children, parents, and siblings as well. Unlike previous studies of domestic killings, which focus on statistical findings, the work illuminates the complex factors that motivate intimate partner murders. Drawing on extensive documentary sources and field research…
Controlling the Dangerous Classes: A Critical Introduction to the History of Criminal Justice
Overcoming Violence Against Women and Girls: The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide Problem
Battered Women at Risk: A Rejoinder to Jacquelyn Hauser's and Jacquelyn Campbell's Commentaries on “R & B”
I am grateful to Jacquelyn Hauser and Jacquelyn Campbell for responding so thoughtfully to the dialogue I wrote concerning fatality review. In writing “R & B” as a fictionalized conversation, I wanted to explore issues that are perhaps more difficult to get at using traditional scholarly devices. The commentators target different aspects of the dialogue. Hauser (2005) focuses on the tensions between the researcher (R) and the battered woman (B) o…
R & B: A Conversation Between a Researcher and a Battered Woman About Domestic Violence Fatality Review
The conversation that unfolds takes place at a restaurant between an imaginary researcher, R, and an imaginary battered woman, B. The researcher embodies some of the traits of researchers in general and particularly those who stray into the arena of domestic violence fatality review. The battered woman lives with her three teenage children, works as a secretary at a university, and has just completed her master’s degree in Women’s Studies. R and …
Of Nuclear Missiles and Love Objects: The Humiliated Fury of Kevin Jones
This article reports the case of a young military police officer who murdered his fiancée. The dominant wisdom is that men kill their female partners as an expression of their power and control or because their power and control is ebbing. Employing a sociological imagination and Avery Gordon's notion of haunting, the author draws on feminist and social psychological discourses to highlight the contextual importance of the power relations of gend…
Making Trouble: Cultural Constructions of Crime, Deviance, and Control
Making Trouble: Cultural Constraints of Crime, Deviance, and Control
Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias: Gray Mist Killings
This book explores dementia-related aggression, violence, and homicide through a detailed analysis of “gray mist killings.” The term gray mist killing refers to intimate partner homicides (IPHs) committed by spouses/partners suffering from dementia, homicides of dementia sufferers committed by their caregiving spouses/partners or other family members, and IPHs attributable to the complications of caring for a co-resident family member suffering f…
Criminology (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Poison control (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)