Stereotypes Of Domestic Homicide

Homicide, as a criminality, has a vast array of methods. Domestic homicide is a sub-class, yet it is one of the most customary categories of homicide throughout the world. This essay intends to find connections in relationships and homicidal tendencies in regards to both genders through specific traits adopted by biological backgrounds. Drawing from research entailing queries into why domestic homicide is the leading cause of manslaughter on a global scale. The characteristics of the basic psyche behind how these events occur can date back to the natural biological progression of the male and female predispositions.
In the preliminary biological account of homicide, biologists found similarities in appearance to that of our ancestors, the simian.

Though the statistics are adequate the term femicide seems to give reason to the fact. Perhaps these homicides that occur are more inclined to being crimes of emotional investment. The Australian Institute of Criminology (2009) found ‘When men kill women it is frequently individuals with whom they are, or have been, personally connected … such homicides often transpire as a reaction to the collapse of a relationship whereby the man believes he is losing his spouse’. Specific aspects of certain emotions are vital to ascertaining how these homicides

Ideas of possessiveness and jealousy emanate from the biological development of aggression through the ages. Men are more prone to killing from the aggression that is spoken of, observed and inherited. The chance of a women killing is scarce because they are less viciously aggressive people therefore they will only kill in an act of self-defence or self-nurturing. It finds similarities in the ideal of the hunter and the gatherer, the man will discard and the female will preserve. As Keetley (2008) refers ‘And it was anger, not jealousy, nor possessiveness which routinely appeared as the predominant cause of troubled and even violent relations between husbands and wives’. It seems that the general emotions of Jealousy and possessiveness exist merely as a vessel for the act of aggression of which has been a staple of the evolution of man since the dawn of