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Female Aggression

1. Aufl.

von: Helen Gavin, Theresa Porter
44,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	08.10.2014
ISBN/EAN:	9781118314739
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	240

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Titelbeschreibung

This critique explodes the stereotypical assumption that men are more prone than women to aggression <ul> <li>A cogent and holistic assessment of the theoretical positions and research concerning female aggression</li> <li>Examines the treatment, punishment and community response to female aggressive behavior</li> <li>Examines topics including sexual power, serial murder and the evolution of gendered aggression</li> <li>Treats female aggression in its own right rather than as a counterpart to male violence</li> </ul>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix Acknowledgements xi 1 Theories, Research and Misconceptions about Female Aggression 1 Introduction 1 Aggression and Women 2 Violent Crime and Women 5 Theories of Aggression 8 Theories based on biological difference 8 Environmental factors 18 Psychological models 19 Measuring aggression 26 2 The Evolution of Aggression 29 Darwinism and Sociobiology 29 The Naked Ape – Was She in the Jungle or the Sea? 31 The Evolution of Aggression and the Archaeology of War 32 Intersexual vs Intrasexual Aggression 33 Conclusion 36 3 Indirect Aggression 38 Indirect Aggression in Girls and Teens 39 Women and Indirect Aggression 40 4 Child Abuse and Neglect by Women 44 Introduction 44 Prevalence 45 Mental Illness 48 Social Learning and Own Abuse History 49 Antisocial Mothers 50 Other Factors in Child Abuse 52 Failure to Protect 53 Abusive Mothers’ Perspective on Their Children 54 Recidivism 57 Effects of Abuse on Children 57 Conclusion 59 5 Intimate Partner Violence by Women 61 Introduction 61 Prevalence of Women’s Violence Against Heterosexual Partners 64 Prevalence of Women’s Violence Against Homosexual Partners 67 Severity and Injury 67 Recidivism 68 Women’s Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking 68 Intimate Partner Violence by Women Resulting in Homicide 69 Intimate Partner Violence Initiation vs Self-Defence 70 Anger, Communication and Control 71 Social Learning and Intimate Partner Violence by Women 72 Personality and Intimate Partner Violence by Women 73 Typologies 74 Reporting Issues by Victims 75 Witnessing Inter-Parental Violence 76 Treatment 77 Conclusion 78 6 Rape, Sexual Assault and Molestation by Women 80 Introduction 80 Rape, Sexual Assaults and Coercion: Beyond the Male Perpetrator–Female Victim Paradigm 80 The Prevalence of Female Sexual Assaults Based on Perpetrator Self-Report 81 Victim prevalence reports 82 Theories Regarding Sexual Assault by Women 83 Women Who Sexually Offend Against Children 85 Prevalence 85 Similarities and differences compared with male sex offenders (MSOs) 85 Typologies 87 Deviant arousal and mental illness 90 Past victimization 91 Child Pornography and the Internet 92 Victim Effects 93 Awareness, Gender Bias and the Social Construction of Women 94 Legal Issues 95 Assessment, Treatment and Recidivism 96 A Brief Note on Juvenile Female Sex Offenders 100 Conclusion 101 7 Filicide by Women 102 Introduction 102 Neonaticide 103 Pregnancy Concealment, Denial and Negation 104 Infanticide 107 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Infanticide 108 Child Homicide by Women 109 Language, Filicide and Objectification 111 Gender and Filicide 112 Typologies 113 Mental Illness and Filicide 114 Serial Infanticide 117 Legalities 120 Conclusion 122 8 Homicide and Women 123 What Is Homicide? 123 Types of Homicide 124 Genocide 124 Mass murder 128 Mass murder for ideology 131 Murder 132 Killing for love 133 Women who kill from fear 134 Women who kill for money 136 Girls who kill 137 Manslaughter 142 Suicide 142 Conclusion 143 9 Serial Murder and Women 144 What Is Serial Murder? 145 Explanations for Serial Murder 146 Childhood 146 Psychiatric explanations 152 The role of psychopathy 153 The role of paraphilias 155 Neurological contributions 157 Female Serial Killers 158 Comfort serial killers 158 Couples Who Kill 160 Conclusion 163 10 Conclusion 165 References 169 Index 217

Autorenportrait

Helen Gavin is Director of Graduate Education at the University of Huddersfield, UK, where she also lectures in Forensic and Criminal Psychology Previously, she was Head of Psychology at the University of the West of England, UK. Her publications include The Essence of Cognitive Psychology (1998), Understanding Research Methods & Statistics in Psychology (2008), Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll: Psychological, Legal and Cultural Examinations of Sex and Sexuality (2010) and Criminological and Forensic Psychology (2014) Theresa Porter is a forensic psychologist currently practicing in Connecticut, USA. She worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons for nearly a decade where she had extensive experience with female offenders. She lectures and publishes on violence by women, including Infanticide and Neonaticide: A Review of 40 Years of Research Literature on Incidence and Causes (with Helen Gavin; 2010), Woman as molester: Implications for society (2010), A Case of Factitious Paedophilia (with Mark D. Feldman, 2011) and Hits Like a Girl; Women who Batter their Partners (2011).

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Conventional wisdom states that men express their aggression through physical violence, while women do so in less direct and more nuanced ways. Female aggression is often ignored by mainstream social and medical commentators, and writings on the topic seem to view aggression by women or girls as either a pale imitation of male aggression or specific to certain situations, such as alcohol abuse or domestic violence. Yet viewing female belligerence as poorly expressed imitative behaviour minimises and trivialises women’s anger, perspectives and viewpoints. This study of female aggression makes a critical assessment of this position, and explores ideas about female aggression, its motives and outcomes. In doing so, it explodes a number of social myths about gender. This thorough, holistic review takes theoretical positions drawn from a range of scientific perspectives as its starting point, then explores how women experience and express their aggression, including through sexual assault and murder. In doing so, aggressive female behaviour is acknowledged, in its own right, as an issue that requires examination by researchers.

Unpublished endorsement

"This book represents a truly fantastic addition to the literature on female aggression. It covers a whole host of aggressive crimes from a very thoughtful and gender-informed perspective. This book is an absolute necessity for professionals working with or researching women who have offended. I've no doubt that this book is a landmark text which will springboard important future research and practice in this area." —Professor Theresa A. Gannon, University of Kent "Helen Gavin and Theresa Porter have written a brave and uncompromising book, one that is scholarly, firm, careful, and a bit daunting. They challenge our most cherished feminist beliefs about women as the more compassionate, cooperative, 'maternal,' and non-violent of the genders. Clearly, they are not only writing about teenage 'mean girls'; the authors are weighing the research on women, including mothers, who abuse and neglect children; batter their partners, both male and female, sexually assault (or join in group sexual assaults) of women, kill their babies, kill other adults. They refuse to minimize the importance of female aggression only because men are more violent and, to their credit, Gavin and Porter critique others for doing so. And why? Because the authors have treatment goals in mind, ways of helping anti-social mothers and/or of rescuing their children. An entirely laudable endeavor. This is a serious work and demands that the reader drop many preconceptions in order to benefit from the material presented. Brava for taking on this painful, difficult and important subject." —Phyllis Chesler, Author of Women and Madness and Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman