Mentally disordered parricide and stranger killers admitted to high-security care. 1: A descriptive comparison
Baxter, Helen Duggan, Conor Larkin, Emmet P. Cordess, Christopher Page, Kim
Baxter, Helen
Duggan, Conor
Larkin, Emmet P.
Cordess, Christopher
Page, Kim
Abstract
Parricide is an uncommon crime, so that many of the descriptive studies suffer from methodological shortcomings of small sample sizes and a non-representative ascertainment. We describe a consecutive series of mentally disordered offenders convicted of parricide who were admitted to high-security care and we compare their index characteristics with a group convicted of killing one or more strangers. The main findings were that the parricides were more likely to suffer from schizophrenia but less likely to have had a discrupted childhood and criminal history, as compared with those who had killed a stranger. Those in the parricide group had made a previous attack on their victim in 40% of cases. Overall, the study confirmed some of the differences that one might expect between these two groups of homicides, which had entirely different relationships to their victims.
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2001
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Baxter, H., Duggan, C., Larkin, E. P., Cordess, C. & Page, K. (2001). Mentally disordered parricide and stranger killers admitted to high-security care. 1: A descriptive comparison. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 12 (2), pp.287-299.