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Article: Women far less likely to kill than men; no one sure why
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 24, 1992
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Accused serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was recently sentenced
to death in Florida, is the exception that doesn't prove the rule.
The rule is that women, unlike men, don't kill strangers or even
casual acquaintances, except in very rare cases of self-defense.
When women do kill -- and they do so at astonishingly lower rates
than men, who commit 85 percent of all homicides -- the vast majority
kill family members, usually men who have battered them for years.
As many as 90 percent of the women in jail today for murdering men
had been battered by those men. A much smaller number -- about 3 in
100,000 -- kill their children as a result of a post-partum psychosis
that has gone untreated.
There ...
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