Till Death Us Do Part’
Spousal homicide in early modern Russia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12447481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marianna Muravyeva (0000-0002-7880-0329, University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 306-330 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The History of the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1081-602X • E-ISSN: 1873-5398 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1081602x.2013.827130 |
| OpenAlex | W1981733793 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 48 |
The history of domestic violence, let alone domestic homicide, in Russia has yet to be written. This article focuses on the legal attitudes to domestic and especially marital homicide in early modern Russia and explores types of and methods used in spousal killings. The research is based on court records in addition to laws, legal documents and other sources. Its preliminary conclusions include assumptions about scale of domestic violence, gender of perpetrators and victims, main trends in domestic homicide and their connections with available explanatory frameworks. The study reveals that Russian households were violent places accounting for different types of assaults and homicides, but in all these acts women died more frequently than men. Marital homicide occurred in all social groups in Russia. Motives and methods for marital homicides were consistent with gendered theories of power relations. Penal policies also reveal harsher treatment of women than men, pointing to the gendered definitions of power disciplining methods
Criminology · Domestic violence · Explanatory power · Homicide · Marital status · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Demography · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |