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The volume explores every aspect of females who murdered--from arrest through sentencing--and provides descriptions of ecological and other circumstances of the murders, the victims, the motives of the perpetrators, and their fates in court. The generous utilization of case examples dramatically reveals the homicide scenarios. This exploratory, descriptive study compares 296 females arrested for homicide in six urban areas--Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, and New York City--in 1979 and 1983. During field trips to these cities, which have the highest murder rates in the country, both qualitative and quantitative data were collected from police files, homicide records, F. B. I. reports, and criminal court information. Research analyses reveals a fascinating profile of today's female murderer. When Women Kill presents a comprehensive, yet highly readable, overview of this previously neglected subgroup of homicide offenders.
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"The author has a data base that is rich in detail and unique in character. A study of this type is clearly needed and will make a major contribution to filling a void in the literature. It represents a sophisticated level of analysis on the subject of white, African American, and Latina homicide offenders." -- Paula D. McClain, Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia
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The typical female homicide offender in the US is a single, thirty-one-year-old, unemployed African American mother with less than a high school education and prior arrests. So concludes Mann (criminal justice, Indiana U.-Bloomington) from her study of 296 women arrested for murder between 1976 and 1983 in the six US cities with the highest murder
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- PublisherState University of New York Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0791428117
- ISBN 13 9780791428115
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages230
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