Another example of the differing ne

Another example of the differing news coverage of male perpetrators is the case of the Houston man who killed his three children, wife, and a friend and then had a shootout with police, wounding a sergeant in the stomach. The man subsequently killed himself.Certainly the carnage and the 8-hour drama unfold- ing before police entered the house exceeds that of the Andrea Yates case. Yet this Associated Press(2003a)story was one third of a page appearing on page24 of the Daily News, and the victims and perpetrators were not identified. Many wouldnotbefamiliarwiththestorybecauseitdidnotreceivethenationalcover- age that the Yates case received. The epidemic of violence against women is of serious concern as them a jority of women who are victims of violence are raped, assaulted, and murdered by mentheyknow.Because the woman has them is for tune of knowing herattacker, these crimes are viewed as “misdemeanor murders and rapes,” a term I origi- nated nearly 10 years ago to illustrate that these crimes are not considered seri- ous by many people (Carll, 1999b).