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- Title
Female Patients Who Assault in the Hospital.
- Authors
Felthous, Alan R.; Coyne, Lolafaye
- Abstract
This pilot study investigates factors associated with assaultive behavior in hospitalized female patients. Eight patients who assaulted were compared with 11 patients who did not. Associated with the assaultive sample were prior assault, a time span from first to last assault of over one year and destruction of property. Behavioral items significantly associated with assault included a history of frequent physical assaults between 10 and 18 years of age. No relationship between organic findings suggestive of CNS dysfunction and assaultiveness was found.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ASSAULT &; battery; WOMEN patients; CENTRAL nervous system diseases; CRIMES against women; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH; HOSPITAL patients; SOCIAL sciences
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 1983, Vol 1, Issue 2, p85
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.2370010211