The 9/19/13 repeat Elementary episode titled "Heroine" begins with Irene Adler (aka Moriarty) stating "as if men had a monopoly on murder".
True enough, when I began my career in the late 70's females were usually only considered as suspect when it involved domestic violence or when their children were killed. It was usually considered a crime of passion or as a result of a mental illness. It was not considered that there was planning and thought behind the elimination of life, not by a woman.
As the years went by and women held more positions of authority in society it became true that they may have also become more violent in other aspects of society. However if you look at statistics of serial killers (people who kill multiple people over a time period); spree killers (people who kill multiple people in a short period of time); and now active shooters and/or work related violence shootings, the perpetrators are for the most part male.
Criminal profilers who develop a potential suspect rely on these trends to develop their profiles. How long will it be before women break the glass ceiling of criminal violence and therefore make it necessary to reevaluate those profiles?
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