The Perpetrator-Victim Relationship: An Important Clue to Understanding Intimate Partner Homicide in China (eBook)

This book is devoted to illustrating the significance of perpetrator-victim relationship, including its status and state, in understanding intimate partner homicide (IPH) in the context of China today after comparing with the findings in the previous studies. By analyzing the correlation between intimate relationships as a focal variable and other variables such as IPH characteristics and risk factors, a deeper understanding of IPH in China today has emerged. Finally, this book shows that many perpetrators and victims had intimate relationships with people outside their marriages as the main reason for the rapid increase in the number of instances of IPH, which seems to be in tandem with China's rapid modernization and urbanization. Presenting the sole academic research that closely investigates the characteristics of intimate partner homicide in modern China, the book is a valuable resource for not only for the Chinese government but also for Chinese and international researchers.

Zhao Shuhong, Ph.D., is an associate professor at College for Criminal Law Science of Beijing Normal University, China. His research focuses on a wide range of criminal law science, including criminal law, such as corpus delicti and its elements, criminal responsibility, stages of committing a crime, sentencing for serious crime, and criminology, such as domestic violence, and sexual violence. During the past decade, Professor Zhao won prestigious research grants, including a grant for a study of the sentencing for serious crime from Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law and Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Germany. He has published a considerable number of valuable academic articles in various distinguished journals in the field, which have been a part of teaching literature in China.

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This book is devoted to illustrating the significance of perpetrator-victim relationship, including its status and state, in understanding intimate partner homicide (IPH) in the context of China today after comparing with the findings in the previous studies. By analyzing the correlation between intimate relationships as a focal variable and other variables such as IPH characteristics and risk factors, a deeper understanding of IPH in China today has emerged. Finally, this book shows that many perpetrators and victims had intimate relationships with people outside their marriages as the main reason for the rapid increase in the number of instances of IPH, which seems to be in tandem with China's rapid modernization and urbanization. Presenting the sole academic research that closely investigates the characteristics of intimate partner homicide in modern China, the book is a valuable resource for not only for the Chinese government but also for Chinese and international researchers.