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.
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.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction.- Theoretical Framework of IPH Study.- Perpetrator and Victim of IPH.- Intimate Relationship between Perpetrator and Victim.- Main Findings and Implications for Practice, Research, and Policy.