ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the theoretical frameworks and approaches to violence against parents as they developed historically and across the disciplines. Continuing our exploration of approaches to violence against parents, first, we give an overview of theoretical frameworks as they developed historically to examine the genealogies of fragmentation in current academic literature and underline the importance of historical analysis for contemporary theories. Second, we analyse theories on both non-fatal and fatal violence against parents to bridge scholarship that has treated non-fatal violence against parents and parental homicide as separate phenomena. Third, we pay attention to intersectional theories of violence against parents by exploring how gender, race, class, and culture influence the ways we write about and explore histories of violence and violence against parents in particular.
