what is parricide and how common is it in Australia?
- Written by Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University
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The recent killing of a young mother and two of her children in Western Australia, allegedly by the woman’s 19-year-old son, has attracted...