- Title
- Experiences of incarcerated women who have committed intimate partner homicide
- Creator
- Coombs-Brown, Chanelle
- Subject
- Incarcerated women Female offenders Women--Violence against
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- Psychology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/17406
- Identifier
- vital:40965
- Description
- This qualitative study explores the experiences of incarcerated women who have perpetrated intimate partner homicide (IPH) and had been exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) in their relationships. The study further explores women’s experiences of IPV, in particular those which motivated them to perpetrate IPH. The study examines how factors associated with IPV affect women to the point of responding with such lethal IPH. Additionally, it explores whether or not women feel remorse for their actions of IPH. The current study falls within an interpretive research paradigm and employs interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) as its theoretical framework. The researcher selected IPA as it works well in understanding and describing participants’ experiences. Semi-structured face to face interviews were conducted with nine women incarcerated for IPH. The findings of the study were analysed using the IPA approach. Three main themes emerged from the analysis: mainly all women reported to have experienced IPV in their respective relationships with the deceased, all, except one woman, reported that their partners had committed infidelity, the women also reported to have experienced much disappointment in gaining assistance from the judicial system. Therefore, on-going IPV including death threats resulted in fear; infidelity resulted in tremendous emotional and psychological strain, as well as feelings of betrayal; and perceived lack of support from the judicial system all appeared to have motivated women to perpetrate IPH with the majority indicating remorse.
- Format
- 139 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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