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Record W1659290208 · doi:10.1089/vio.2014.0002

Men Who Kill

2014· article· en· W1659290208 on OpenAlex
Michael H. Stone

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Bibliographic record

VenueViolence and Gender · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHomicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
Canadian institutionsColumbia College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsJealousyWifeLustHomicideHumiliationPsychologyAggressionCriminologySocial psychologyPoison controlSuicide preventionMedicinePsychoanalysisLawMedical emergency

Abstract

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Throughout history and in all cultures, men are measurably more prone than are women to engage in killing other persons, whether in self-defense (justifiable homicide), misperceived threat, or murder (unlawful homicide). There are compelling reasons for this disparity of aggression, related to our evolution as a species. This article focuses on the nature aspect of the nature–nurture interaction, which has greater explanatory power for the male “excess” of aggression and killing. Neuroendocrine (especially, testosterone-related) and neurophysiological factors (those relating to the emotions of rage and lust) underlay this sexual dimorphism. Viewed in this light, killing—particularly murder—by men may be understood as exaggerations of otherwise adaptive tendencies directed at the preservation of the group, and at the retention of one's social status and of one's mate. Particular attention is paid to several types of killing by men. Uxoricide (the killing of one's wife) may be prompted by such motives as jealousy (directed at the threat of losing one's wife) or lust (killing one's wife so as to be free to mate with another woman) or greed (related to the desire to retain or improve one's social status by gaining insurance money or inheritance). The threat of social exposure and humiliation (by a wife who knows embarrassing secrets) is yet another motive. Additional topics are also addressed, such as serial sexual homicide—an exclusively male phenomenon—and stalking, which is often aimed at coercing an otherwise unwilling woman to become one's sexual partner. The final section addresses the increase in recent years for certain men—of a particularly callous nature—to commit murders of striking depravity, even at a time when the murder rate in general is decreasing.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.494
Threshold uncertainty score0.251

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.282
Teacher spread0.266 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it