Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Popular opinion, if not courts of law, sometimes view the commission of murder or of grievous bodily harm more sympathetically as a crime of passion -- a physical outbreak of intense jealousy responding to presumed sexual deception. Societies in which honor forms a governing principle may react similarly to altercations caused by personal insults. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.