This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on femicide, using Israel as an illuminating case study, given its diverse communities and common-law-based legal system. Utilizing analytical alongside practical perspectives, the book offers a novel crimino-legal approach to femicide. In addition to its interdisciplinary novelty, the book presents originality in going beyond the more usual focus on the central victims and the common legal tools. Here, the authors extend the analysis to secondary victims of femicide and examine the applicability of second-tiered relevant legal tools, mostly tort law, as a means for gaining justice for the victims. This explorative journey culminates with the authors’ definition of femicide as a quintessential "crime of distinct nature". In the context of current international pledges to better understand and consequently better fight femicide, this work allows readers to comprehend the phenomenon and the ways to abolish it. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and policy makers working in the areas of criminal law, tort law, family law, criminology and gender studies, as well as for legal theorists and criminologists seeking integration of both disciplines.
Foreword
Preface
Part One: An Overview on Femicide
Chapter One: A Theoretical Overview on Femicide
Chapter Two: Empirical Criminological Insights on Femicide
Part Two: Femicide Subtypes
Chapter Three: A Crimino-Legal Perspective on Intimate Partner Femicide: The "Reasonable" Israeli Wife Killer
Chapter Four: (Dis)"honor" Femicide
Chapter Five: Femicide–Suicide
Chapter Six: Concealed Femicide: Feminist Theory and Circumstantial Evidence
Part Three: Femicide’s Secondary-Tier Effects
Chapter Seven: Secondary Victims and the Implications of Femicide
Chapter Eight: Femicide Victims’ Agency through Tort Law
Chapter Nine: Femicide, a Crime of Distinctive Nature
Appendix
Index
Biography
Hava Dayan conducts research in the field of criminal law and society, with a focus on gender and crime, at the School of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel.
Yifat Bitton is President of Achva Academic College for Science and Education in Israel. She is a legal academic and social activist for equality.
'Femicide, Criminology and the Law captures the distinctive nature of femicide and lays out its components with sophistication critical to comprehending its exceptionality. I believe the authors' interdisciplinary methods for effectively addressing femicide have significant potential for global applicability, and I strongly recommend their book.'
Justice Yosef Elron, Israel Supreme Court
