Am J Psychiatry 1976; 133:957-961
Copyright © 1976 by American Psychiatric Association
Adolescent parricide: a comparison with other adolescent murder
BF Corder, BC Ball, TM Haizlip, R Rollins and R Beaumont
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.