Question 1
The murder of Lisa Harnum by Simon Gittany can be classified as an intimate partner homicide. The homicide was not premediated but instead a by-product of rage with a history of emotional abuse present before the murder.
Question 2
Simon Gittany at the time of the murder was 37. He is an Australia citizen. He has had an unstable employment history with previous history in criminal occupations. In 1995, he was caught with a number of stolen goods and during the arrest for this crime he bit the ear of a senior detective linking him with a history with violence. He served 2 and a half years of periodic detention for both the possession of stolen goods and assault on the senior detective. Gittany’s only recorded history of non-criminal …show more content…
She was living in Australia on a working visa but was of Canadian nationality. She had not held a previous history of criminal behaviour or victimisation. The only history of victimisation identifiable within Harnum’s life was in her relationship with Simon Gittany. She had moved to Australia in 2004 and worked part time to support a hairdressing course she was taking at Australian Hair & Beauty School within Bondi, Sydney. It was during this time she met Gittany through a mutual friend. During the next year after beginning a relationship with Gittany, Harnum frequently visited a chiropractic doctor, Doctor Bablys, for various health issues. These issues ranged from neck and shoulder pain to loss of appetite which are all common issues linked to stress and anxiety. Harnum was unemployed for majority of her relationship with Gittany though she did work as a receptionist for a short time, most likely closer to the start of their relationship though the time is unclear, but was unemployed at the time of her death. Her entire family lived in Canada and she remained close to her mother whilst living in …show more content…
The average age of female victims was 34, Lisa fell just below this at the age of 30. She was unemployment like 57.7% of female victims. Harnum differed in some ways to previous victims as she does not fit into the 19% that held a criminal history or 31.3% of victims under the influence of alcohol at the time of their murder. 16% of IPH homicides occur on a Saturday as Lisa Harnum did. Majority of IP violence victims were being treated for depression and mental illness before their murder, Lisa Harnum was stated as having a counsellor to help her deal with Gittany’s severe controlling and frequenting a chiropractic doctor for pains caused by stress. The Australian Institute of Criminology showed between 2008 to 2010, stabbing was the most frequent method of death with IPH at 43% while throwing from a balcony was not even listed thus the method used to murder Harnum was rare. The same report showed that only 5% of domestic homicides were motivated by the ending of the relationship as Harnum was thus we can see Harnum did not relate very specifically to other victim characteristics despite the long history of control and emotional abuse from Gittany. Harnum like many victims of IPH was planning to leave Gittany before her murder and it was essentially the separation that played the main motivation for Gittany. Belfrage and Rying (2004) found that the risk of IPH is at its height when conflict over separation is
The murder of Lisa Harnum by Simon Gittany can be classified as an intimate partner homicide. The homicide was not premediated but instead a by-product of rage with a history of emotional abuse present before the murder.
Question 2
Simon Gittany at the time of the murder was 37. He is an Australia citizen. He has had an unstable employment history with previous history in criminal occupations. In 1995, he was caught with a number of stolen goods and during the arrest for this crime he bit the ear of a senior detective linking him with a history with violence. He served 2 and a half years of periodic detention for both the possession of stolen goods and assault on the senior detective. Gittany’s only recorded history of non-criminal …show more content…
She was living in Australia on a working visa but was of Canadian nationality. She had not held a previous history of criminal behaviour or victimisation. The only history of victimisation identifiable within Harnum’s life was in her relationship with Simon Gittany. She had moved to Australia in 2004 and worked part time to support a hairdressing course she was taking at Australian Hair & Beauty School within Bondi, Sydney. It was during this time she met Gittany through a mutual friend. During the next year after beginning a relationship with Gittany, Harnum frequently visited a chiropractic doctor, Doctor Bablys, for various health issues. These issues ranged from neck and shoulder pain to loss of appetite which are all common issues linked to stress and anxiety. Harnum was unemployed for majority of her relationship with Gittany though she did work as a receptionist for a short time, most likely closer to the start of their relationship though the time is unclear, but was unemployed at the time of her death. Her entire family lived in Canada and she remained close to her mother whilst living in …show more content…
The average age of female victims was 34, Lisa fell just below this at the age of 30. She was unemployment like 57.7% of female victims. Harnum differed in some ways to previous victims as she does not fit into the 19% that held a criminal history or 31.3% of victims under the influence of alcohol at the time of their murder. 16% of IPH homicides occur on a Saturday as Lisa Harnum did. Majority of IP violence victims were being treated for depression and mental illness before their murder, Lisa Harnum was stated as having a counsellor to help her deal with Gittany’s severe controlling and frequenting a chiropractic doctor for pains caused by stress. The Australian Institute of Criminology showed between 2008 to 2010, stabbing was the most frequent method of death with IPH at 43% while throwing from a balcony was not even listed thus the method used to murder Harnum was rare. The same report showed that only 5% of domestic homicides were motivated by the ending of the relationship as Harnum was thus we can see Harnum did not relate very specifically to other victim characteristics despite the long history of control and emotional abuse from Gittany. Harnum like many victims of IPH was planning to leave Gittany before her murder and it was essentially the separation that played the main motivation for Gittany. Belfrage and Rying (2004) found that the risk of IPH is at its height when conflict over separation is