Almost all of the clinical and empirical literature on female parricide victims focuses on mothers killed, with only little information available on stepmothers murdered. This study is the first to compare the victim, offender, and case correlates in incidents when mothers and stepmothers were killed. Supplementary Homicide Report Data for 1976-2007 were used to investigate similarities and dif...

Wife-beating, child battering, sexual abuse, parricide ... these are some of the manifestations of violence in families. There are many others, including emotional violence as well as physically destructive behavior shown by one family member to another or to others outside the family. Is such violent behavior on the increase, or are we just more clearly aware of its existence because of better...

Two hundred thirteen males charged with mur4er and who received pretrial psychiatric evaluations were divided into two groups of domestic and nondomestic homicide defendants. Demographics, developmental and family background, prior criminal records, victim characteristics, and psychiatric status at the time of the crime were used to compare these groups. Those who were charged with intrafamilia...

The Colombian Association of Psychiatry continues to work in different areas (professional and scientific issues) with the aim of improving the profession for its members. As you will have noted, from the scientific standpoint, the journal, as a means of communicating the knowledge base generated by mental health professionals, both national and international, strives for continued improvement ...

Various types of killings occur within family matrices. The news media highlight the dramatic components, and even novels now use it as a theme. 1 However, a psychiatric understanding remains elusive. Not all killings within a family are familicidal. For want of a better term, I have called the killing of more than one member of a family by another family member "familicide." The destruction of...

In 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery, the eldest son of a rural sharecropping family in Brownsville, Oregon, committed triple homicide that sent shockwaves throughout region. With seemingly little provocation beyond slap face, Montgomery turned his rifle on parents and friend. fascinating study murder its aftermath, Peter Boag insists typical explanations for parricides provided by psycho...

1. introduction reza barahani(1984), in his “male history”, focuses on the murder of son by father, in ferdowsi’s rustam and sohrab, in the canonical epic of shahnameh. he, thence, juxtaposes it to father’s murder by son, in sophocles’ “oedipus rex”, to conclude that in oriental culture, it is always the “new” that is sacrificed by the hands of the “old”, whereas in western culture it is the co...

Every reader, listener, or viewer of stories, from the most casual to critically attuned, intuits that between lines under surface narrated incidents there lies unspoken information and meanings various kinds, scopes, pertinence, accessibility cannot be ignored. “Goldilocks Three Bears” tells us something more than story a little girl who wanders into Bear family's house, tastes their porridge,...