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Abused Women in South Africa who Kill their Intimate Male Partners: A Psychological Exploration
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Gertie Pretorius --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa Monique Bester --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaThe aim of this study was to explore psychological risk factors that may precipitate the murder of a partner by an abused woman. In this article, the authors use multiple case studies and interviews with three women incarcerated for the... -
Women Who Kill in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Content Analysis of Media Reports
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Gertie Pretorius --- University of Johannesburg, Brandon Morgan --- University of Johannesburg,The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the biographical background and nature of the murder of women who have killed in post-apartheid South Africa. Archival newspaper data were examined and analysed for incidence of murders, the relationships... -
Murder and the whole city
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kelly Gillespie --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaHenri Lefebvre's The Urban Revolution makes a claim for the importance of seeing the whole urban form in our analyses of cities. He argues that we too often get trapped into a view of the urban that prioritises “fragments” of...