Psychology 2032A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Lust Murder, Criminal Negligence, Parricide
22 Sep 2020
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Crime & corrections chapter 15 textbook notes homicidal offenders: homicide represents the ultimate violent act. Infanticide (the killing of a baby by its mother: max. 1969: nearly a quarter of all homicide victims (23%) were aboriginal and the aboriginal homicide rate was 6x higher than the non-aboriginal homicide rate. Of people accused of homicide in 2014, 32% were aboriginal people. Bimodal classification of homicide: homicides are classified as either, reactive (affective) aggression. Crime & corrections chapter 15 textbook notes homicidal offenders: defined as impulsive, unplanned, immediate, driven by negative emotions, and occurring in response to some perceived provocation, occurs more often among relatives, more common than instrumental aggression. In these cases, the murder is in response to the mother"s delusional beliefs that the child"s death will somehow protect the child. In march 2002, a jury rejected andrea"s insanity plea and found her guilty of capital murder; yates was originally sentenced to life in prison.
