TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1983//
TI  - A study of young-age and mid-life homicidal women admitted to a psychiatric hospital for pre-trial evaluation
JO  - Canadian journal of psychiatry, The
A1  - Husain, A.
A1  - Anasseril, D. E.
A1  - Harris, Philip W.
SP  - 109
EP  - 113
VL  - 28
IS  - 2
N2  - 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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0706-7437
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -