UK: 'Masculinity crisis' leads to family murder, according to new study

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-08-12 02:23

Article here. Excerpt:

'A team of criminologists at Birmingham City University has published the first study into the grim phenomenon of "family annihilation", when fathers murder their own children. Academics studied 59 men who, between 1980 and 2012, had murdered their children – and sometimes their spouses – during a single killing event, with most cases coming in the later half of the study.

Attempting to understand what precipitated "family annihilators", they looked for patterns such as the methods used, victim characteristics, possible motivation, offender age, occupation and location of murders.
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Professor David Wilson, who led the team of criminologists, said the increasing instances of the crime were a reflection of "masculinity in crisis". He said: "Some men are unable to come to terms with different and developing notions of the institution of the family, where women increasingly play a much more dynamic role than they had in the past."'

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Not a bad thing to do at all. Wonder when they'll get to studying women who do the same thing and theorizing that it's due to a "femininity crisis" and "changing family roles", etc.? Just one:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/03/apnewsbreak-sc-woman-who-murdered-4-in-family-brought-them-together-to-pray/

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2013-08-12 23:57

They'd get very different numbers if they included abortions as instances of a parent killing their own kids.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Thu, 2013-08-15 01:45