Parricide And Violence Against Parents Throughout History: (de)constructing Family And Authority? (world Histories Of Crime, Culture And Violence)

This book combines the approaches of history and criminology to study parricide and non-fatal violence against parents from across traditional period and geographical boundaries, encompassing research on Asia as well as Europe and North America. Parricide and non-fatal violence against parents are rare but significant forms of family violence. They have been perceived to be a recent phenomenon related to bad parenting and child abuse often in poorer socioeconomic circumstances – yet they have a history, which provides insights for modern-day explanation and intervention. Research on violence against parents has concentrated on child abuse and mental illness but, by using a rich array of primary and secondary documents, such as court cases, criminal statistics, newspaper reports, and legal and medical literature, this book shows that violence against parents is also shaped by conflicts related to parental authority, the rise of children’s rights, conflicting economic and emotional expectations, and other sociohistorical factors. Front Matter ....Pages i-vii Introduction (Marianna Muravyeva, Raisa Maria Toivo)....Pages 1-9 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 ‘What Kind of Monster or Beast Are You?’ Parricide and Patricide in Roman Law and Society (Barbara Biscotti)....Pages 13-33 ‘A Timely Warning to Rash and Diobedient Children’: Violence against Parents in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century England (James Sharpe)....Pages 35-55 Degeneracy and Abuse: Attitudes to Violence Against Parents in Nineteenth-Century Russia (Marianna Muravyeva)....Pages 57-78 Front Matter ....Pages 79-79 ‘You Would Have Them Lock Me Up and Sell Me as Slave’: Parents and Children in Long Eighteenth-Century Wallachia (Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu)....Pages 81-96 From Confession to Declaration: Changing Narratives of Parricide in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Katie Barclay)....Pages 97-116 Unimaginable Crime and Imaginary Criminals: The Thorvald Sletten Matricide Case 1899–1907 (Silje Warberg)....Pages 117-138 Gender and the Historicity of Parricide: A Case Study from the Nineteenth-Century North American West (Peter Boag)....Pages 139-168 Front Matter ....Pages 169-169 Ambivalent Fatherhood: On Disobedience and Assaults Against Parental Authority in Munich in the Early Seventeenth Century (Satu Lidman)....Pages 171-190 Parricide in Nineteenth-Century Finland: Cultures of Violence and a Crisis of Authority (Raisa Maria Toivo)....Pages 191-212 ‘His Disobedient Son’: Sami Narratives of Parental Authority in Eighteenth-Century Finnmark (Liv Helene Willumsen)....Pages 213-241 Conclusion (Marianna Muravyeva, Raisa Maria Toivo)....Pages 243-261 Back Matter ....Pages 263-267 Marianna Muravyeva, Raisa Maria Toivo, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.