Moving backwards from the murders they committed through their
adult lives, relationship histories, and their childhoods, the
author sought to understand what motivates the men to kill. The
patterns he found reveal that the murders were neither impulsive
crimes of passion nor were they indiscriminate. "Why Do They Kill?"
is the first book to profile different types of wife killers, and
to examine the courtship patterns of abusive men. The author shows
that wife murders are not, for the most part, "crimes of passion,"
but culminations of lifelong predisposing factors of the men who
murder, and that many elements of their crimes are foretold by
their past behavior in intimate relationships.
Key turning points of these relationships include the first
emergence of the man's violence, his blaming of the victim, her
attempts to resist, his escalation, her attempts to end the
relationship, and his punishment for her defiance. Critical
perspective on the men's accounts comes from interviews with
victims of attempted homicide (standing in for the murder victims)
who survived shootings, stabbings, and strangulation. These women
detail their partner's escalating patterns of child abuse, sexual
violence, terroristic threats, and stalking. The section on
help-seeking patterns of victims helps to dispel notions of
ilearned helplessnessi among victims."
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