Killing your children to hurt your partner: A South African perspective on the motivations for revenge filicide

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dc.contributor.authorMoen, Melanieen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBezuidenhout, Christiaanen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-07T08:29:24Z
dc.date.available2022-10-07T08:29:24Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-01
dc.descriptionCITATION: Moen, M., & Bezuidenhout, C. (2022). Killing your children to hurt your partner: A South African perspective on the motivations for revenge filicide. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 1–15. doi.10.1002/jip.1603.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe aim of the study was to investigate the offence characteristics and motivations for revenge filicides. Revenge filicide is an act where one parent kills their own offspring for retribution to hurt and upset the other parent. The cases of 20 revenge filicide murderers (14 male and six female) were analysed to determine the motivations and offence characteristics of revenge filicide offenders. It is the first South African study to highlight the motivations and associated characteristics in revenge filicides. Themes such as a loss of social identity due to rejection; extreme rage type anger; external locus of control; sadism; a desire to cause pain and a need to inflict harm are highlighted in this article. The initial emotional response may escalate from mild anger to a level of narcissistic rage which eventually culminates in the murdering of the child to punish and hurt the other parent and to restore control.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jip.1603
dc.description.versionPublisher’s versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent15 Pagesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMoen, M., & Bezuidenhout, C. (2022). Killing your children to hurt your partner: A South African perspective on the motivations for revenge filicide. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 1–15. doi.10.1002/jip.1603.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1544-4759 (Print)en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1544-4767 (Online)en_ZA
dc.identifier.otherdoi.10.1002/jip.1603en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/125755
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons Ltden_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthors retain copyrighten_ZA
dc.subjectAngeren_ZA
dc.subjectChild murderen_ZA
dc.subjectNarcissistic rageen_ZA
dc.subjectParent kills childen_ZA
dc.subjectRageen_ZA
dc.subjectRevenge filicideen_ZA
dc.titleKilling your children to hurt your partner: A South African perspective on the motivations for revenge filicideen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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