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The psychology of female violence : crimes against the body

Anna Motz
Exploring the psychology of violent and criminal women, this text draws upon psychodynamic and criminological perspectives of female offending, and the link between childhood experience and adult behaviour is expounded
Print Book, English, 2008
Routledge, London, 2008
xix, 388 pages ; 23 cm
9780415403863, 9780415403870, 0415403863, 0415403871
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