« Crimes of passion » : the paradox of supposedly normal violence
In contrast to other crimes committed within the family circle, crimes of passion, whilst very socially visible, have never been the object of an effective social or psychological critique such has been the case for infanticide or even more recently, for sexual abuse and marital rape. Based on a corpus of 337 crimes and various tools of analysis, we will underline three aspects in this article: The danger, particularly for women, of both the family and the marital environment The denial by the media discourse, and maybe psychiatric, of this danger The masked component of this danger for these criminals, both men and women, operate within pseudo-normality.