PSY344H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Mass Murder, Anger Management, Power Control
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Nature and extent of homicidal violence: the canadian criminal law has 4 types of homicide, first-degree murder: includes all murder that is planned and deliberate. Bimodal classification of homicide: this classified homicides into 2 categories, reactive/affective aggression: violence that is impulsive, unplanned, immediate, driven by negative emotions, and occurring in response to some perceived provocation. Victims are most likely relatives: instrumental/predatory aggression: violence that is premeditated, calculated behaviour, motivated by some goal. Filicide: when parents kill: filicide: the killing of children b their biological parents or step-parents, neonaticide: the killing of a baby within 24 hours of birth, infanticide: the killing of a baby under 1 year old. In canada, baby boys are at higher risk for being killed than baby girls. They have high levels of stress and martial or financial problems: those committed by mothers with mental illness: these mothers are older and married, and are likely to have psychosis or depression.
