Citation

Shon PCH. J. Forensic Psychol. Pract. 2009; 9(4): 249-279.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15228930902935677

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Parricide research in the twentieth century has been overwhelmingly framed as an adolescent phenomenon, the killing of a parent often explained as a function of severe child abuse. Using archival data from the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, 1851-1899, this article examines the actual sources of conflict between parents and their offspring in nineteenth-century America. Results suggest that four common sources of conflict between parents and their offspring culminated in parricides in nineteenth-century America. The implications of a context-based classification of parricide for criminological theory and parricide research are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract)