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This book examines homicide-suicides in a post-communist country in South-East Europe. It presents results regarding risk factors and particularities of homicide-suicides in Romania committed in the period 2002-2013.
The author analyses statistical data from legal records, police registers, and online newspapers discussing the way in which the victims and aggressors of homicide-suicides are represented. She completed the data by investigating six penitentiaries in Romania regarding the risk factors specific to various types of homicide-suicide: intimate partner femicide-suicides, familicide-suicides, filicide-suicides and homicide-suicides committed by police officers.
List of contents
Introduction - Part I: Homicide-Suicides in an Eastern European Country: Romania - Homicide-Suicides in Romania: Incidence, Risk Factors and Particularities - Intimate Partner Femicides versus Intimate Partner - Femicide-Suicides in Romania - Intimate Femicide - Suicides. A Comparative Analysis of Eastern and Western European Countries - Filicide-Suicides and Familicide-Suicides - Part II: Homicide-Suicides and Online Media - Femicide-Suicides in the Romanian Online Media - Facebook Kills! A Case Study of Intimate Partner - Femicide-Suicides Between Romanian Emigrants - Media Representations of Homicide-Suicides Committed by Policemen.
About the author
Ecaterina Balica is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Romanian Academy and the coordinator of the Laboratory "Violence and Crime. Prevention and Mediation". Her main research interests are: homicide, femicide, homicide-suicide, migration and crime, violent crime, and restorative justice.
