In 2003, Scott Shanahan in Defiance, Iowa, in order to get all his wife's money, planned to kill her, so he enlisted his daughter to kill her mother, telling her that she would get off as a juvenile. All that money would to daughter and father. If you are thinking that this is repugnant, we're on the same page. After the daughter killed the mother with a shotgun, the body was left in the bedroom. The plan to dispose of the body was not to dispose of the body. They let it rot in the bedroom for a year! If you're thinking this is gruesome, we're on the same page. Do you explain this as male tendency to violence, as male domination of the female, as male greed? Is it male nature to do violence? How do you explain it? Before you read on, come to a conclusion. After you have explained it to yourself--often with prejudice about males, that they are NATURALLY aggressive, controlling, violent--consider this: it was Dixie Shanahan, not Scott, who did all these things. It was a WOMAN who enlisted the daughter to kill the father. It was a WOMAN who conspired to kill for his money. It was a WOMAN who let her husband's body rot in the bedroom for a year, until police got a search warrant. It was a WOMAN convicted of this crime. Of course--wasn't this predictable?--her defense was that the husband had abused her. She appealed to that deep prejudice that males are naturally violent. In this case, batting eyelashes and feigning the "oppressed" woman was discarded by the jury. The rotting body made a rotten case for her. She was convicted. Now, what is your conclusion?

Naturally violent? I would say all of us can have the tendency if the right buttons are pushed. Am not certain this is a case of violence, however, only an amoral sickness.

On other note, I believe when it comes to members of gangs, it has been established that the females tend to be the crueler of the two. More emotional based? (A concept I disagree with.) Overcompensation? Who knows? Possibly just traditional story and media portrayal to have that [males more violent] as common perception.