Comparing Predatory Versus Affective Violence and Examining Early Life Stress as a Risk Factor
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: young teenage girls. It was three or four in the afternoon when Leon, who had been drinking, encountered the girls in the elevator of his apartment building and crudely propositioned them. After they rejected his proposal, he followed them into an apartment and attacked them with a kitchen knife, stabbing them to death and then proceeding to rape, kick, and stomp their bodies. Cherise was 12 and Lucy was 13 years old. Perry, hired to investigate the case and help the court decide between life without parole or capital punishment, visited Leon in a maximum-security prison and had discussions with Leon’s parents and older brother. Perry would come to discover that Leon came from a relatively normal family, his father and brother both holding steady jobs. His mother, however, while kindhearted and polite, was mentally impaired such that she was completely ignorant of the crucial needs of an infant. Lacking the help that her extended family had provided in raising Leon’s older brother, she found no fault in leaving Leon home alone in a
Author: L.M. van den Berg
Institution: University of Puget Sound
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W764281870