Women who kill their husbands: Mariticides in contemporary Ghana

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 526-536

  Adinkrah, Mensah ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ghana; Homicide; Mariticide; Murder; Spousal homicide; Spousal killings

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GHANA; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPOUSE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; FEMALE; GHANA; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPOUSES;

EID: 35948944507     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.20209     Document Type: Article

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