Gendered Lives, Gendered Deaths: Homicide in England and Wales, 1977–2020
- Date & time
- –
- Speaker
- Dr Emily Gray
- Host
- Social Policy and Intervention (Department)
- Series
- Dr William Rudgard
- Location
- VBR Department of Social Policy and Intervention, VBR Department of Social Policy and Intervention, 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 2ER, United Kingdom
- Organisation
- Oxford
Topics
About this talk
Generational analysis offers a way of examining how crime varies across the life course, history and political eras. Drawing on 44 years of Home Office Homicide Index data, Dr Gray uses age-period and cohort models alongside descriptive trends to examine homicide suspects and victims in England and Wales between 1977 and 2020. Dr Gray finds interesting shifts and striking gender differences. Cohort effects are particularly evident among male suspects, including those who spent their ‘formative years’ growing up during the New Labour period, while period trends for men and women diverge. Dr Gray argues that the structural conditions associated with the Thatcher and New Labour eras may have shaped men’s and women’s exposure to violence through different institutions, vulnerabilities and pathways.
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