Drugs and homicide by women

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 825-845

  Spunt, Barry ^a   Brownstein, Henry H ^b   Crimmins, Susan M ^c   Langley, Sandra ^c  

^a JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

Author keywords

Drugs; Homicide; Self reports; Women

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; ILLICIT DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OFFENDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

EID: 0029948115     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826089609063959     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. BLOUNT, W., SILVERMAN, I., SELLERS, C., and SEESE, R. (1994). Alcohol and drug use among abused women who kill, abused women who don't, and their abusers, J. Drug Issues 24(2): 165-177.
2. BROWNE, A. (1987). When Battered Women Kill. New York: Free Press.
3. BROWNSTEIN, H. H., and GOLDSTEIN, P. J. (1988). Drugs and Homicide in New York State. Albany, NY: New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services.
4. BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS, US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (1993). Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office.
5. FORMBY, W. (1986). Homicides in a semi-rural southern environment. J. Crim. Justice 9: 138-151.
6. GOETTING, A. (1987). Homicidal wifes: A profile. J. Fam. Issues 8(3): 332-341.
7. GOLDSTEIN, P. J. (1985). The drugs/violence nexus: A tripartite conceptual framework. J. Drug Issues 15(4): 493-506.
8. GOLDSTEIN, P. J. (1989). Drugs and violent crime. In N. A. Weiner and M. E. Wolfgang (Eds.), Pathways to Criminal Violence (pp. 16-48). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
9. GOLDSTEIN, P. J., and BROWNSTEIN, H. H. (1987). Drug Related Crime Analysis-Homicide [DRCA-H]. Final Report to the National Institute of Justice, July.
10. HADLEY, J. (1992). A Study of Women Imprisoned for Homicide. Atlanta, GA: Georgia Department of Corrections.
11. KOWALSKI, G., SHIELDS, A., and WILSON, D. (1985). The female murderer: Alabama 1929-1971. Am. J. Crim. Justice 10(1): 75-90.
12. MANN, C. R. (1990). Female homicide and substance use: Is there a connection? Women Crim. Justice 1(2): 87-109.
13. MAXFIELD, M. (1989). Circumstances in supplementary homicide reports: Variety and validity. Criminology 27: 671-695.
14. McCLAIN, P. D. (1982). Black female homicide offenders and victims: Are they from the same population? Death Educ. 6: 265-278.
15. REISS, A., and ROTH, J. (Eds.) (1993). Understanding and Preventing violence Washington, D.C.: National Research Council, National Academy Press.
16. SPUNT, B., BROWNSTEIN, H., CRIMMINS, S., and LANGLEY, S. (1994). Female Drug Relationships in Murder (FEMDREIM). Final Report to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, December.
17. SPUNT, B., TARSHISH, C., FENDRICH, M., GOLDSTEIN, P., and BROWNSTEIN, H. (1993). The utility of correctional data for understanding the drugs-homicide connection. Crim. Justice Rev. 18(1): 46-60.
18. TOTMAN, J. (1978). The Murderess: A Psychosocial Study of Criminal Homicide. San Francisco: R and E Research Associates.
19. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (1981-1993). Uniform Crime Reports 1980-1992. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office.
20. WEISHEIT, R. A. (1984). Female homicide offenders: Trends over time in an institutionalized population. Justice Q. 1(4): 471-489.
21. WELLISCH, J., PRENDERGAST, M., and ANGLIN, M. D. (1994). Drug Abusing Women Offenders: Results of a National Survey National Institute of Justice Research in Brief, October
22. WIECZOREK, W. F., WELTE, J. W., and ABEL, E. L. (1990). Alcohol, drugs and murder: A study of convicted homicide offenders. J. Crim. Justice 18: 217-227.
23. WILBANKS, W. (1983). The female homicide offender in Dade County, Florida. Crim. Justice Rev. 8(2): 9-14.
24. WILLIAMS, K., and FLEWELLING, R. (1987). Family, acquaintance, and stranger homicide: Procedures for rate calculations. Criminology 25: 543-560.
25. WOLFGANG, M. E. (1958). Patterns in Criminal Homicide. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.