Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 14 (UPI) _ An expert on domestic violence in
Michigan says the
Jonesboro, Ark., playground massacre was gender-based.
Susan McGee, Executive Director of SAFE House in Ann Arbor says it
mirrors the dynamics of
domestic violence around the country.
McGee says the gender bias is obvious because females were the only ones
targeted.
Four middle school students and one teacher died in a shooting last
month, allegedly committed by
two male students on a school playground.
The massacre was allegedly motivated by the breakup of one of the boys
and his girlfriend.
McGee calls the attack an incident of male violence against women and
girls.
She told the Ann Arbor News it was motivated by the idea of an
entitlement to a relationship,
similar to what adult batterers feel.
University of Michigan social psychologist Richard Nisbett says nearly
all homicides in the United
States are committed by men.
He says such crimes are driven by self-protection, or reaction to an
insult that violates ``a culture of
honor.''
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