'The Perfect Murder': An exploratory study of staged murder scenes and concealed femicide

Yifat Bitton; Hava Dayan

doi:10.1093/bjc/azz015

'The Perfect Murder': An exploratory study of staged murder scenes and concealed femicide

Yifat Bitton, Hava Dayan

School of Criminology

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Abstract

Presenting cases of criminologically unidentifiable circumstances, authors point to concealment susceptibility of some femicide cases, overlooked by both the criminal system and by scholars, rendering them 'concealed femicides'. The paper presents descriptive and criminological analyses of Israeli cases whereby the woman's murder was followed by scene staging. It extrapolates the common characteristics of femicide victims and perpetrators, offers a typology of homicide scene staging behaviour that facilitates domesticity-related femicide concealment and, eventually, introduces tools to enhance exposure of femicide.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1054-1075
Number of pages	22
Journal	British Journal of Criminology
Volume	59
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz015
State	Published - 12 Aug 2019

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© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD).

Keywords

Criminal justice
Femicide
Legal reform
Murder scene staging
Typology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Social Psychology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Law

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