Early childhood loss as a predisposing factor in female perpetrated homicides.

Title: Early childhood loss as a predisposing factor in female perpetrated homicides.
Identifier: AAI9605583
identifier: 9605583
Creator: Crimmins, Susan Marie.
Contributor: Adviser: Robert Jay Lifton
Date: 1995
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Sociology, Criminology and Penology | Psychology, Clinical | Women's Studies
Abstract: Based upon interviews conducted with women who have killed, links between early life experiences and later acts of lethal violence are explored. Specifically, the trauma resulting from various losses and their effects upon personality development, as well as the accompanying lack of social supports that exacerbated the impact of the losses are examined. Two hundred fifteen semi-structured, conversational interviews were conducted in New York State prisons with women who had killed, as part of a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded study examining the drug-relatedness of female perpetrated homicides. Of those women who admitted committing the homicide (60%), detailed findings from a secondary analysis of 50 randomly selected cases are presented. Implications of experiencing early childhood losses and a subsequent lack of social supports to mediate the impact of these losses is discussed in terms of how trauma laid the foundation for committing later acts of violence.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

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