violence in families and elder abuse can take many forms, which his sometimes difficult to recognize. in russia, elder abuse is rarely discussed in professional literature and mass media. a border between elder abuse and parricide can be indistinct. borderline cases can include involvement of older people in binge drinking, denial of help, and manipulation towards suicide. three example cases a...

Parricide is a category of homicide in which the victims are the parents, and the killers, their children. The authors report a case of a 45-year-old man who killed his 73-year-old widowed father in an extremely violent manner: he struck the father in the head with a wooden wash board, stabbed him with a pair of scissors and several times with a screwdriver. Afterwards, he kicked the victim in ...

Matricide, the killing of mothers by their biological children, is a very rare event, comprising less that 2% of all U.S. homicides in which the victim-offender relationship is known. This manuscript examines more than 20 years of U.S. homicides to determine the age and gender characteristics of matricide offenders. These data reveal that most mothers are killed by their adult sons. Daughters y...

Criminologists contribute to the knowledge regarding the continuing problem of parricide by way of macrostudies, utilizing large samples that reveal patterns of how such acts are carried out, gender differences, and other aspects. Clinicians have the opportunity to pursue microinvestigations into the details of how cognitive processes and emotions operate in the adolescent who engages in such b...

This article aims to analyze the aspects of domestic violence as portrayed in book “It ends with us”, by American Writer Colleen Hoover, under feminist perspective gender domination. The foundation this paper lays understanding that not only classics, but also contemporary literature work, cultural instruments, are able bring light most diverse set social patterns, such Its methodology was base...