The media needs to take greater care when covering these cases, as the reasons behind such violence are incredibly complex.
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Research suggests there are some differences between what drives women and men to commit filicide. This will help us make sense of such unfathomable crimes.
Research shows familicides are almost exclusively committed by men and key risk factors include a desire for control, particularly in areas associated with masculinity.
The Australian government has committed funding to men’s behaviour change programs in the wake of the murder of Hannah Clarke and her children – but what are they and do they work?
During the 1980s, press coverage of South African family murders suggested that something was ‘wrong’ with white society – and with the white Afrikaans men who were usually seen as perpetrators.
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