Pauline Tarnowsky's Les Femmes Homicides

This translation of Les Femmes Homicides presents an historical work in English for the first time. The author uses a sample of rural peasant women who had committed homicide to test the "born criminal theory" and to expand the theoretical explanations for the women's homicides to include heredity and social impacts.

Auteur

Lin Huff-Corzine is Professor Emerita in the department of Sociology at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. She is active in the American Society of Criminology, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Homicide Research Working Group. Her research focuses on violent crime including homicide, mass victimization, human trafficking, and domestic violence. Publications that directly relate to Les Femmes Homicides include "The life and scholarship of Pauline Tarnowsky: Criminology's mother," with Dr. Kayla Toohy, which appeared in the Journal of Criminal Justice. The 2019 article with Drs. Alec Szalewski and Amy Reckdenwald, "Trading Places: Micro-Level Predictors of Women Who Commit Intimate Partner Homicide," which appeared in Homicide Studies, is also about women who killed spouses. Recent presentations at the European Society of Criminology and the American Society of Criminology focus on the context in which the women Tarnowsky studied committed homicide.

Kayla Toohy is an assistant professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at the University of Tampa. Her research areas primarily focus on studies of lethal violence, taking into consideration macro-level economic and social factors and the geographic distribution of individual crimes using geographic information systems (GIS). Additionally, she has conducted research in the areas of intimate partner violence, family mass murder, historical contributions to criminological literature, and environmental degradation. Publications that reference information related to Pauline Tarnowsky and her historical contributions to the discipline of criminology include "The life and scholarship of Pauline Tarnowsky: Criminology's mother," with Dr. Lin Huff-Corzine, in the Journal of Criminal Justice.

Boniface Noyongoyo is an associate professor of Sociology at Marshall University. While he was a graduate student at the University of Central Florida, Dr. Noyongoyo translated selected sections of Tarnowsky's Les Femmes Homicides for an earlier stage of the project. His current research interests are aging, life course and health, consumption and consumerism, international migration, race and ethnicity, sociology of food, and social inequality. He has researched international students' eating habits as part of his interest in food and social inequalities. He teaches Introduction to Sociology, Research Methods, and Statistics for Social Sciences.