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Familicide: The killing of spouse and children
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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