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Adolescent parricide: a comparison with other adolescent murder

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.957

The authors examined the available data for 10 adolescents who had been charged with parricide and compared these with data for matched groups of 10 adolescents charged with murdering another relative or a close acquaintance and 10 charged with murdering a stranger. They found significant differences between parricidal adolescents and other homicidal adolescents on personality, family, social, and follow-up adjustment variables.

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