2013年8月14日 · Researchers in the UK have identified four primary types of people (usually fathers or mothers) who kill their entire families — self-righteous, disappointed, anomic, and paranoid. This finding...

2013年8月16日 · Of the 71 family "annihilators" identified for the study, 59 of them were male and 55 percent of them were in their thirties when they committed the crime. The frequency with which these kind...

Male family annihilators are typically driven by loss of control, including financial crises, separation or divorce, and may demonstrate evidence for domestic violence, while for women perpetrators, battery, abuse or mental illness is more common, the act itself more likely premeditated and more likely to include victims under the age of one.

2013年8月14日 · Men who kill their families can be separated into four distinct types. British criminologists have made the assessment after studying newspaper records of "family annihilator" events over...

2019年5月13日 · Familicide, the family annihilator, murder-suicides, and family murders are all terms that have been used to describe cases where a family member has killed other family members. The varied definitions of the term ‘familicide’ can make a comparison of studies and cases challenging.

2013年8月15日 · Of all the dark forms that murder can take, the slaying of a family by the father is one of the most tragic and the least understood. This first ever study of British ‘family annihilators’...

2024年10月12日 · The Four Types of Family Annihilators. David Wilson, a criminologist, classified family annihilators into four distinct categories based on their motivations: The Self-Righteous Annihilator: This individual blames the family, particularly a spouse, for his troubles and kills as a way to exact revenge. He often sees his actions as justified, an ...

2009年1月1日 · Yardley, Wilson, and Lynes (2014), in their study of British family annihilators between 1980 and 2012, established four profiles of familicide offenders: self-righteous, disappointed, anomic, and paranoid.

2013年8月15日 · The newspaper accounts of 59 cases contained enough information for the researchers to classify family annihilators into four types of men: what they called self-righteous, anomic, paranoid...

2020年5月8日 · Understanding each profile and the associated features of familicide can help protect at-risk families by identifying the warning signs and intervening before the crime takes place.