PSYC 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, University Of Western Ontario
22 Apr 2019
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In february 2000, she gave birth to a son named cuyler for cuyler: by the spring, she started to see a therapist + was taking medication for depression. Intimate partner homicides occur in canada, typically involving wives as victims. Nature of violence in canada: different types of violent crimes are committed in canada, homicide, attempted homicide, sexual assault, assault, robbery, criminal harassment, uttering threats, terrorism. Homicide classifications: to help us understand nature of homicide, it is often useful to classify crime into types, different classification systems exist, ex. based on legal definitions, motive, victim-offender relationship, number of victims, etc. Victim-offender classifications: filicide: killing of children by their biological parent(s, familicide: killing of spouse and children, femicide: killing of women, androcide: killing of men. Number of victim classifications: single homicides: homicides that involve one victim (most common, multiple homicides: homicides that involve more than one victim, spree murder, serial murder, mass murder.
