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SEXUAL INTIMATE HOMICIDES INVOLVING OVERSEAS‐BORN IN AUSTRALIA: THE TIP OF THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ICEBERG?
Author(s) -
Easteal Patricia
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1994.tb01010.x
Subject(s) - domestic violence , jealousy , homicide , project commissioning , criminology , iceberg , stalking , publishing , psychology , poison control , suicide prevention , political science , geography , medical emergency , medicine , social psychology , law , sea ice , meteorology
This article examines the results relating to offenders' birthplace in a study on homicide between adult sexual intimates. The research showed a disproportionately high number of overseas‐horn perpetrators and that cases were usually preceded by a history of physical or emotional violence often characterised by jealousy. The author concludes that these data may he an anomaly, or a sign of high domestic violence rates in these communities, or an indication that domestic violence is less reported by the overseas‐born women survivors. The latter two theories are discussed using overseas and Australian literature on domestic violence.