Research Catalog

Title

The psychology of female violence, second edition : crimes against the body / Anna Motz.

Author

Motz, Anna, 1964-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

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Details

Description

xix, 388 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Exploring the psychology of violent and criminal women, this text draws upon psychodynamic and criminological perspectives of female offending, and the link between childhood experience and adult behaviour is expounded.

Alternative Title

• Psychology of female violence : crimes against the body
• Psychology of female violence, second edition : crimes against the body

Subject

• Abusive mothers
• Child Abuse [MESH]
• Criminal Psychology [MESH]
• Female offenders > Mental health services
• Female offenders > Psychology
• Self-Injurious Behavior [MESH]
• Self-destructive behavior
• Violence [MESH]
• Violence in women
• Women [MESH]

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.353-371) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The development of maternal abuse : female perversion -- Female sexual abuse of children -- Maternal physical abuse -- Fabricated or induced illness -- Infanticide -- Deliberate self-harm -- Anorexia nervosa -- Battered women who kill -- Working with women who kill -- Hiding and being lost : the case for women-only secure units.

ISBN

• 0415403863 (hbk.)
• 0415403871 (pbk.)
• 9780415403863 (hbk.)
• 9780415403870 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007027295

OCLC

154309007

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library