Citation

Husain A, Anasseril DE, Harris PW. Can. J. Psychiatry 1983; 28(2): 109-113.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1983, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Publisher SAGE Publications)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6839277

Abstract

The authors compared a group of young female homicidal offenders with a group of middle-aged homicidal women as to demographic data, psychopathology, physical disorders and type of victims chosen. Young women tend to have low socioeconomic status, have antisocial personality disorder, and/or schizophrenia as psychiatric diagnoses and most likely kill their children, while mid-life women tend to have slightly higher socioeconomic status, suffer from affective disorder and alcoholism and have more frequent physical disorders and most likely murder their spouses. A significant finding noted among mid-life women is the high frequency of physical abuse by husbands who later become their homicide victims. Treatment implications of these findings are noted.

Language: en