Female Aggression -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Theories, Research and Misconceptions about Female Aggression -- Introduction -- Aggression and Women -- Violent Crime and Women -- Theories of Aggression -- Theories based on biological difference -- Environmental factors -- Psychological models -- Measuring aggression -- Chapter 2 The Evolution of Aggression -- Darwinism and Sociobiology -- The Naked Ape - Was She in the Jungle or the Sea? -- The Evolution of Aggression and the Archaeology of War -- Intersexual vs Intrasexual Aggression -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Indirect Aggression -- Indirect Aggression in Girls and Teens -- Women and Indirect Aggression -- Chapter 4 Child Abuse and Neglect by Women -- Introduction -- Prevalence -- Mental Illness -- Social Learning and Own Abuse History -- Antisocial Mothers -- Other Factors in Child Abuse -- Failure to Protect -- Abusive Mothers' Perspective on Their Children -- Recidivism -- Effects of Abuse on Children -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Intimate Partner Violence by Women -- Introduction -- Prevalence of Women's Violence Against Heterosexual Partners -- Prevalence of Women's Violence Against Homosexual Partners -- Severity and Injury -- Recidivism -- Women's Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking -- Intimate Partner Violence by Women Resulting in Homicide -- Intimate Partner Violence Initiation vs Self-Defence -- Anger, Communication and Control -- Social Learning and Intimate Partner Violence by Women -- Personality and Intimate Partner Violence by Women -- Typologies -- Reporting Issues by Victims -- Witnessing Inter-Parental Violence -- Treatment -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Rape, Sexual Assault and Molestation by Women -- Introduction -- Rape, Sexual Assaults and Coercion: Beyond the Male Perpetrator-Female Victim Paradigm.

The Prevalence of Female Sexual Assaults Based on Perpetrator Self-Report -- Victim prevalence reports -- Theories Regarding Sexual Assault by Women -- Women Who Sexually Offend Against Children -- Prevalence -- Similarities and differences compared with male sex offenders (MSOs) -- Typologies -- Deviant arousal and mental illness -- Past victimization -- Child Pornography and the Internet -- Victim Effects -- Awareness, Gender Bias and the Social Construction of Women -- Legal Issues -- Assessment, Treatment and Recidivism -- A Brief Note on Juvenile Female Sex Offenders -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Filicide by Women -- Introduction -- Neonaticide -- Pregnancy Concealment, Denial and Negation -- Infanticide -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Infanticide -- Child Homicide by Women -- Language, Filicide and Objectification -- Gender and Filicide -- Typologies -- Mental Illness and Filicide -- Serial Infanticide -- Legalities -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Homicide and Women -- What Is Homicide? -- Types of Homicide -- Genocide -- Mass murder -- Mass murder for ideology -- Murder -- Killing for love -- Women who kill from fear -- Women who kill for money -- Girls who kill -- Manslaughter -- Suicide -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Serial Murder and Women -- What Is Serial Murder? -- Explanations for Serial Murder -- Childhood -- Psychiatric explanations -- The role of psychopathy -- The role of paraphilias -- Neurological contributions -- Female Serial Killers -- Comfort serial killers -- Couples Who Kill -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10 Conclusion -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement.