Matricide in Ghana: Victims, Offenders, and Offense Characteristics.

摘要: At present, scholarship on matricide across many regions of the non-Western world is lacking. For instance, in Ghana, despite intermittent, yet recurrent, availability media reports describing matricidal acts over past quarter century, no existing study has systematically analyzed killings West African nation. To contribute to literature and extend knowledge about other forms lethal violence this article presents results an analysis 21 that occurred Ghana from 1990 2016. Issues studied include demographic characteristics assailants victims, modus operandi, temporal spatial aspects, as well motives circumstances surrounding crime. The show sons were substantially more likely than daughters kill their mothers, offenders suffer serious psychiatric disorders, offenses generally victim's home, all cases characterized by massive physical force extreme violence. Matricide differed matricides Western nations four important respects: (a) none was perpetrated with a firearm, (b) did offender act co-offender (accomplice or accessory),