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Women Who Kill: Title and subTitle BreakA Sociopsychological Study

K. E. Cole, MD; Gary Fisher, PhD; Shirley S. Cole, RN
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Submitted for publication Feb 23, 1968.

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Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1968;19(1):1-8. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1968.01740070003001
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THE PURPOSES of this study were first, to determine if females who commit homicide could be described with respect to personality style and behavior patterns, and second, to relate sociological variables to these personality styles. Interest in the possibility of such a categorization of female homicides developed during psychiatric evaluation of the 112 homicide cases scheduled for the 1965 Board of Trustees review at the California Institution for Women, when it was observed that very similar histories were given by the inmates. Source material for the study included the psychiatric evaluations, crime description and court proceedings, prior criminal records, information given by family and acquaintances, interview data collected by psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers, and custodial reports of institutional behavior. The senior author (K.E.C.) conducted the psychiatric interviews and reviewed all the source material. From this total material

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National Prisoners Statistics , Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC, 1965;, vol 24.
Mowat, R.R.: Morbid Jealousy and Murder , London: Tavistock, 1966;.
Brearly, H.C.: Homicide in the United States , Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1932;.
Guttmacher, M.W.: The Mind of the Murderer , New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1960;.
Varma, L.P., and Jha, B.K.:  Characteristics of Murder in Mental Disorders , Amer J Psychiat 122:1296-1298 ( (May) ) 1966;.
Neustatter, E.:  The State of Mind in Murder , Lancet 1:861-863 ( (April 17) ) 1965;.
Bromberg, W.: The Mold of Murder: A Psychiatric Study of Homicide , New York: Grune & Stratton, Inc., 1961;.
Stearns, A.W.:  Murder by Adolescents With Obscure Motivation , Amer J Psychiat 144:303-305 ( (Oct) ) 1957;.
Lamberti, J.W.; Blackman, N.; and Weiss, J.W.A.:  The Sudden Murderer: A Preliminary Report , J Soc Therap 4:2-15 (No. (1) , first quarter) 1958;.
Weiss, J.W.A.; Lamberti, J.W.; and Blackman, N.:  The Sudden Murderer , Arch Gen Psychiat 2:669-678 ( (June) ) 1960;.
Kahn, M.W.:  A Comparison of Personality, Intelligence, and Social History of Two Criminal Groups , J Soc Psychol 49:33-40 ( (Feb) ) 1959;.
Megargee, E.I.:  Undercontrolled and Overcontrolled Personality Types in Extreme Antisocial Aggression , Psychol Monog 80:whole No. (611) , 1966;.
Macdonald, J.M.: The Murderer and His Victim , Springfield, Ill: Charles C Thomas, Publisher, 1961;.
Gillies, H.:  Murder in West Scotland , Brit J Psychiat 111:1087 ( (Nov) ) 1965;.
Lanzkron, J.:  Murder and Insanity: A Survey , Amer J Psychiat 199:754-758 ( (Feb) ) 1963;.

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