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- Title
Weapons Used by Juveniles and Adults to Kill Parents.
- Authors
Heide, Kathleen M.
- Abstract
Youths who kill, particularly those who kill their parents, have been a matter of increasing concern in the United States in recent years. Empirical analyses of homicide and parricide cases, however, have been limited. The FBI Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) Data Base for the 10-year period 1977-1986 was utilized to investigate which weapons were used by children in the United States to kill male and female parents and stepparents in single victim, single offender situations. Biological parents were analyzed separately from stepparents. Significant differences were found in the weapons used to kill male and female parents, the weapons used by juveniles and adults when killing parents and stepfathers, and the weapons used by both juveniles and adults when killing male as opposed to female victims. The age and gender differences found in relation to weapons used to kill parents were consistent with a physical strength hypothesis. The relationship found between offender age and weapon used strongly suggests that the number of parricides committed by Juveniles could be somewhat curtailed if access to firearms, particularly rifles and shotguns, was severely restricted.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PARRICIDE; JUVENILE homicide; FIREARMS &; crime; STEPPARENTS; SEX differences (Biology)
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 1993, Vol 11, Issue 4, p397
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.2370110407