Intimate Partner Homicide Suicide in Later Life: Understanding Motives and Risks
Author: Sonia Salari.
Source: Volume 08, Number 03, Winter 2016 , pp.203-210(8)
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Abstract:
More and more often, it seems, we hear another report of a murder-suicide, almost to the extent that this heinous crime has become a normal part of the day’s news cycle. Who is perpetrating the murder-suicides? How could and why would anyone do such a thing? Author Sonia Salari focuses on the realities versus the myths associated with these events, with special emphasis on its prevalence among the enormous and fast-aging generation known as the baby boomers.Keywords: National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS); family annihilator; chronic illness and depressive symptoms
Affiliations:
1: University of Utah.