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Women who kill : profiles of female serial killers / Carol Anne Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Carol Anne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women serial murderers.
- Women serial murderers--Psychology.
- Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 269 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Allison & Busby, 2001.
- Summary:
- Carol Anne Davis sets out to explore the dark and disturbing world of the female serial killer. Women aren't a violent breed statistically, but the female of the species can be just as deadly as the male. Women Who Kill profiles fourteen women who used arsenic, manual strangulation, suffocation, lethal injection, multiple gunshots and stabbing to kill their victims. Each killer is the subject of a separate chapter, exploring her childhood, lifestyle and sexuality. In-depth analysis of individual cases provides an invaluable insight into the psychology behind these atrocities. Carol Anne Davis comments on the classification of female killers, how society may understand dangerous women, and what it is that can turn ordinary women into killers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-263) and index.
- Filmography: page 264.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0749005351
- OCLC:
- 45767547
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