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Family Annihilation

In the last two months, three fathers have killed their partners, children and themselves. File on 4 investigates what drives these men to take such drastic action.
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Broadside: Clues to mass shootings

At this time, there are few clues to what motivated Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis. Sources tell the Associated Press that investigators have found no manifesto or other writings suggesting a political or religious agenda, and the search for answers continues. Jack Levin, the Brudnick Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Northeastern University, is […]
The Times Magazine

Our husbands killed our children

It was the American sociologist and criminologist Professor Jack Levin, from Northeastern University in Boston, who first coined the term “family annihilator” in the mid-eighties to describe a father who kills his children, and possibly also his spouse and himself. The high body count distinguishes it from “filicide”, which usually denotes a single victim. But […]