{"id":5669,"date":"2015-12-10T22:50:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T03:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5669"},"modified":"2015-12-10T22:50:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T03:50:35","slug":"murderers-intimacy-discount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2015\/12\/10\/murderers-intimacy-discount\/","title":{"rendered":"Murderers&#8217; Intimacy Discount"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5670\" style=\"width: 599px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloribus.com\/adsarchive\/prints\/unknownadvertiser-against-domestic-violence-5378305\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5670\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-9.46.44-PM.png\" alt=\"From an antiviolence PSA created for a Zurich women's organization coalition, Frauenzentrale, via Coloribus, an online advertising repository. http:\/\/www.coloribus.com\/adsarchive\/prints\/unknownadvertiser-against-domestic-violence-5378305\/\" width=\"599\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-9.46.44-PM.png 599w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-9.46.44-PM-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From an antiviolence PSA created for a Zurich women&#8217;s organization coalition, Frauenzentrale, via Coloribus, an online advertising repository.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attention to violence against women has improved significantly within the legal system since feminists pushed for recognition of what had once been considered \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/5050\/rahila-gupta\/personal-is-political-journey-of-feminist-slogan\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">personal problems<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d&#8212;like violence by an intimate partner&#8212;as part of a larger system of gender inequality. Even into the early 1990s, laws discrediting the possibility of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marital_rape_(United_States_law)\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rape within marriage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> remained on the books for some states. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some discrepancies remain. According to recent study by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoguelph.ca\/socioanthro\/faculty\/dawson-myrna\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myrna Dawson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, men who kill their wives, girlfriends, or female family members often face shorter prison terms and fewer first degree murder charges than men who kill female strangers. Dawson calls this an \u201cintimacy discount.\u201d Among many possible explanations for these disparities include that women may still be viewed as men\u2019s property, therefore partner deaths aren\u2019t taken as seriously as other killings. Another possibility is that crimes against intimate partners tend to be easier to solve, prosecute, and bring to a guilty plea, perhaps resulting in a lighter sentence, since the killer took responsibility for his crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the full article <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/beta\/news\/canada\/men-femicide-kill-female-partners-sentencing-1.3330171\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention to violence against women has improved significantly within the legal system since feminists pushed for recognition of what had once been considered \u201cpersonal problems\u201d&#8212;like violence by an intimate partner&#8212;as part of a larger system of gender inequality. Even into the early 1990s, laws discrediting the possibility of rape within marriage remained on the books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":5670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,55,13],"tags":[39116,2631,39114,39120,455,25786],"class_list":["post-5669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-gender","category-inequality","tag-crime","tag-domestic-violence","tag-gender","tag-partner-violence","tag-punishment","tag-sentencing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-9.46.44-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5671,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions\/5671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}