Perpetrator Crimes

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The perpetrator is usually a male because they are seen as the” head of the household”, but women can also commit this crime. These crimes are committed mostly by males because they hold all the pressures in their household and their mental health risks are higher than a women is. The perpetrator does not wake up one morning and decides to commit homicide, they just do not “snap”. Also a male’s emotional state is fragile, because he can get the urge to commit this crime just because his spouse left them. (p.923) a person able to commit this crime usually has an extended history of mental illness. Their mental illness can be caused by a bad childhood or bad experience they before their current relationship or simply by their character. The person who commits these crimes is usually extremely depressed or even psychotic.
When the perpetrator decides to commit the crime it is usually when they are at their breaking point, when they cannot take the stress or pressure anymore. A case that exposes this is Kevin Morrissey, he ran a skin clinic. He killed his wife and two daughters and himself, because he believed that his family was just as depressed as he. This could have happened because of money issues because they male considers themselves the main provider of the family unit and they feel in control of what happens to them …show more content…

The person who commits this crime is mentally unstable. An example of this is when the perpetrator sees their children as devils and that they must save everyone from themselves. Also, they can be psychotically depressed and see no other way out than killing their families, including themselves because they want to stop their pain from growing bigger. No forensic psychologists and criminologist can actually determine what the cause of the familicide was. Also they cannot determine the psychological traumas or the character of the perpetrator before committing the

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