Neil Websdale
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195315417
- eISBN:
- 9780199777464
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195315417.003.005
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families, Crime and Justice
Chapter 5 explores the emotional styles of 14 civil reputable familicidal hearts (7 male, 7 female). These perpetrators appear conformist, proper, respectable, almost emotionally constipated or ...
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Chapter 5 explores the emotional styles of 14 civil reputable familicidal hearts (7 male, 7 female). These perpetrators appear conformist, proper, respectable, almost emotionally constipated or tightly constrained. Unlike livid coercive hearts, they tend to maintain their intimate relationships, find common ground with spouses and partners, and make various accommodations, including playing their specific part in a gendered division of labor. As the author points out, when honorable and respectable men and women commit familicide, their acts raise the disturbing possibility that other like-situated persons have similar potential. The author explores the way civil reputable hearts appeared to fit into the social order, examines their latent discontent including their oftentimes suppressed rage and emotional suffering, and, finally discusses their planning and preparation to kill.Less
Chapter 5 explores the emotional styles of 14 civil reputable familicidal hearts (7 male, 7 female). These perpetrators appear conformist, proper, respectable, almost emotionally constipated or tightly constrained. Unlike livid coercive hearts, they tend to maintain their intimate relationships, find common ground with spouses and partners, and make various accommodations, including playing their specific part in a gendered division of labor. As the author points out, when honorable and respectable men and women commit familicide, their acts raise the disturbing possibility that other like-situated persons have similar potential. The author explores the way civil reputable hearts appeared to fit into the social order, examines their latent discontent including their oftentimes suppressed rage and emotional suffering, and, finally discusses their planning and preparation to kill.
