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The Victims of Mentally Disordered Female Offenders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Elizabeth Parker
Elizabeth Parker*
Affiliation:
Special Hospitals Research Unit, Department of Health and Social Security, 119 Camberwell Road, London, S.E.5
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The study of the victims of violent criminal offences and the study of female criminality are both poorly documented areas which are currently attracting a larger share of attention. Investigations into the relationship between the victim and offender and descriptions of the victims of fatal offences have appeared intermittently over the years (East, 1936; von Hentig, 1948; Wolfgang, 1957; Morris and Blom-Cooper, 1964; Gibson and Klein, 1969), but in most of these cases the information is peripheral to the main interests of the researchers and the studies are confined to victims of homicide. This report describes the victims of mentally disordered violent female offenders who were patients in the Special Hospitals, and includes victims of murder, manslaughter, attempted murder and wounding.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 584 , July 1974 , pp. 51 - 59
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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