Homicide in the Family

• Druk: Warszawa, 2010
• Autor: Zdzisław Majchrzyk
• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UKSW

Książka jest monografią poświęconą zagadnieniom przestępstw ze szczególną uwagą skierowaną na przestępstwa dokonywane w rodzinie. Całość w języku angielskim.

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• Język wydania: polski
• ISBN: 978-83-7072-631-7
• Liczba stron: 393

Chapter I. Homicide and aggression in the history of mankind	11
	1.1. Homicide and aggression in the individual and social experience	11
	1.2. Aggressive behaviour in the legal system of the Old Testament	13
	1.3. The male – female relationship as a source of potential aggression	16
	1.4. Politically and religiously motivated homicides	22
	1.5. Aggression towards the enemy defeated in a war	23
	1.6. Warfare, women and male murderers in the ancient world of Herodotus	27
	1.7. Aggression and violence in the medieval and modern Europe	30
	1.8. The assessment of a woman in the early Christianity and the Middle Ages	36
	1.9. Hypotheses on the state of nature in the Age of the Enlightenment	41
	1.10. The 19th-century views and the modern pacifism	42
	1.11. Summary	45
Chapter II. The scale of offences against life and health	48
	2.1. Offences against life in Poland and other countries	48
	2.2. Homicide in the family	50
	2.3. Characteristic features of homicide within the family	52
	2.4. Summary	56
Chapter III. Selected theories on crimes committed by men and women	59
	3.1. Contemporary male and female crime	59
	3.2. Selected theories on male and female crime	60
	3.3. Personality-related determinants of crime	65
	3.4. Strain theory as an attempt at interpreting interpersonal aggression	67
	3.5. The significance of gender in explaining homicide causes	69
	3.6. Summary	78
Chapter IV. Domestic violence and its connection with homicide	82
	4.1. The legal and psychological conceptions of violence	82
	4.2. Relations and partnership connections between the perpetrator and victim	86
	4.3. The strategies of dealing with violence	92
	4.4. Theories explaining the mechanisms of violence	96
	4.5. Summary	101
Chapter V. The psychological approach to aggression and violence	103
	5.1. The modern psychological approach to aggression and violence	101
	5.2. Destructive and hostile aggressive behaviour as a motive for homicide	111
	5.3. Summary	117
Chapter VI. Motivation for homicide	120
	6.1. The definition of motivation and the difficulties in tracing the motivational process	120
	6.2. The discharge of emotions in relation to aggressive behavior	124
	6.3. The two-level system of structures controlling and regulating emotions	125
	6.4. Summary	127
Chapter VII. Male and female homicides in criminological and psychological research	130
	7.1. Case analysis as a method of research	130
	7.2. The victimological approach	132
	7.3. Situational factors	134
	7.4. Abnormal socialisation and its importance in the aetiology of homicide	135
	7.5. The cognitive functioning of killers	138
	7.6. Psychological studies of the perpetrators’ personality	139
	7.7. Mental health of the killers	145
	7.8. A tentative typology of the most common motives for homicide	147
	7.9. Situational factors as motivational background for homicide	149
	7.10. A tentative typology of perpetrators	157
	7.11. Conclusion	166
Chapter VIII. Research aims and methodology	168
	8.1. Validation of the relevance of the current study	168
	8.2. Aims of the study	172
	8.3. Material and methodology	173
	8.4. Description of the research material	175
Chapter IX. General characteristics of the subjects	178
	9.1. Preliminary characteristics of the subjects – the conditions and course of socialization	178
	9.2. Organic determinants and their influence on the subjects’ functioning	188
	9.3. Test results	189
	9.4. The influence of situational factors on the aggressive act of homicide and the type of motivation	202
Chapter X. Comparative analysis of male and female killer groups	208
	10.1. Conditions and course of socialisation of males and females	208
	10.2. Organic factors	212
	10.3 Comparison of male and female killer groups with respect to intensity of central nervous system damaging factors and their consequences for cognitive changes and certain personality dispositions	213
Chapter XI. Comparisons of psychological test results of the two groups	218
	11.1. IQ tests results	218
	11.2. Male and female killers personality assessment	219
	11.3. Results of Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory (BDHI)	222
	11.4. System of values. Interpersonal attitudes in the male and female killer group	226
	11.5. Summary	241
Chapter XII. Impact of situational factors on homicide motives	245
	12.1. The situation as a wider motivational background of homicide	245
	12.2. Types and frequency of motives	258
Chapter XIII. Homicide motivation in the light of statistical cluster analysis	275
	13.1. Cluster analysis – distribution of motives	275
	13.2. Clusters of dominant and coexisting motives in the isolated groups	280
	13.3. Individual and group activity in the isolated clusters	291
	13.4. Male and female killers in the isolated clusters	293
Chapter XIV. Correlation of motives with personality dispositions	295
	14.1. Correlation of motives with intelligence	295
	14.2. Motivation and personality – MMPI	299
	14.3. Personality variables – Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory Results	302
	14.4. SUI interactions and emotional attitudes in the isolated clusters	305
	14.5. Hierarchy of values in the isolated clusters on the basis of the Rokeach Value Survey	308
Chapter XV. Summary and conclusions	315
	15.1. Verification of basic assumptions and hypotheses of the work	315
	15.2. Significant results obtained in the study	318
	15.3. Personality differences between the groups of males and females	320
	15.4. Homicide motives in the female and male group	322
	15.5. Motive cluster analysis in the two groups	323
	15.6. Correlation of the isolated motives with certain personality dispositions	325
	15.7. Conclusions	326
	15.8. Scientific and practical value of the results	328
	15.9. Conclusion	329
Appendix I – Case studies	331
Appendix II – Tables	351
Bibliography	365