Familicidal Hearts
The Emotional Styles of 211 Killers
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 June 2013
- ISBN 9780199325849
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 231x155x22 mm
- Weight 499 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Blending the social, the historical, and the emotional into a new way of making sense of a horrific crime, Familicidal Hearts is a provocative meditation on gender roles, social forces, and modern life itself.
MoreLong description:
Oscar, physically and sexually abusive, stabbed his partner and two stepdaughters to death, buried the bodies, and fled the state with his two younger children. Paul, a respected investment banker, donned a Halloween mask and shot his wife and two children before turning the gun on himself. What drives individuals as different as Oscar and Paul to kill their families? Why does familicide appear to be on the rise?
In Familicidal Hearts, award-winning author and sociologist Neil Websdale uncovers the stories behind 196 male and 15 female perpetrators of this shocking offense, situating their emotional styles on a continuum, from the livid coercive to the civil reputable. With highly detailed and riveting case studies, Websdale explores the pivotal roles of shame, rage, fear, anxiety, and depression in the lives and crimes of the killers. His analysis demonstrates how internal emotional conflict, against a backdrop of societal pressures, is at the root of familicide, challenging the widely accepted argument that murderers kill family members to assert power and control. Websdale contends instead that most perpetrators struggle with intense shame, many sensing that they failed to live up to the demands of modern gender prescriptions, as fathers and lovers, wives and mothers. What emerges is a compelling theory about the haunting effects of modern emotional struggles on perpetrators, controlling and upstanding alike.
Captivatingly written and expertly researched, this provocative book weaves a gripping tale of modern-era "haunted hearts." Blending the social, the historical, and the emotional into a new way of making sense of a horrific crime, Familicidal Hearts is a provocative meditation on gender roles, social forces, and modern life itself.
Table of Contents:
1. Situating Familicide
2. Figurations of Feeling, Haunted Hearts, and Uncanny Acts
3. Familicide: A History
4. Livid Coercive Hearts
5. Civil Reputable Hearts
6. Familicide as a Consequence of Modern Era Emotional Formations
7. Some Implications: A Few Closing Thoughts
Appendix I: The Occupational Backgrounds of the Livid Coercive and Civil Reputable Hearts
Appendix II: The Racial/Ethnic Backgrounds of the Livid Coercive and Civil Reputable Hearts
Appendix III: Rates of Familicide per 100,000 US Population in 10 year intervals (N= 190 US Cases)
Appendix IV: Survey Instrument: Male Perpetrators
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