Journal article
Familicide: The killing of spouse and children
Abstract
A familicide is a multiple‐victim homicide incident in which the killer's spouse and one or more children are slain. National archives of Canadian and British homicides, containing 109 familicide incidents, permit some elucidation of the characteristic and epidemiology of this crime. Familicides were almost exclusively perpetrated by men, unlike other spouse‐killings and other filicides. Half the familicidal men killed themselves as well, a …
Authors
Wilson M; Daly M; Daniele A
Journal
Aggressive Behavior, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 275–291
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
1995
DOI
10.1002/1098-2337(1995)21:4<275::aid-ab2480210404>3.0.co;2-s
ISSN
0096-140X