https://female-serial-killers-index.blogspot.com/2019/02/female-jesse-pomeroys-26-female-serial.html
A
Groundbreaking 11,000-Word Study of Female Juvenile Aggression
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ABSTRACT
(281 words): The subject of female aggression has never received its due from
research scholars. In 1977, American psychologist Ann Frodi determined that of
314 studies she reviewed that focused on human aggression the share that
discussed female aggression was only 8%. The consequences of this absence of
attention has reinforced erroneous assumptions of scholars of an ideological
bent and has intensified prejudices in the culture at large.
Patricia
Pearson, investigative journalist, author of When She Was Bad (1997), notes that both the academy and the
general public have a blind spot, a collective amnesia, when it comes to female
aggression: “Violence is masculine. Men are the cause of it, and women and
children the ones who suffer. . . . Though the evidence may contradict the
statement, the consensus runs deep. Women . . . have no part in violence. It is
one of the most abiding myths of our time.”
Jesse
Pomeroy (1859-1932), an American boy jailed for assault in 1872 and in 1874
sentenced to death for murder at the age of 15, is often characterized as the
youngest known American serial killer. Yet there have been several female
serial killers of similar age preceding and subsequent to Pomeroy. None
received anything like the publicity of the Pomeroy case. None resulted in a
death sentence. “Female Jesse Pomeroys” contributes to advance the study of
female aggression by collecting and discussing forgotten but significant cases
of extreme aggression of girls aged 3 to 17. This paper focuses is on girls who
murdered or attempted to murder at least two persons. The geographical
distribution is broad, including cases from Asia, Africa, North and South
America and Europe, ranging from 1865 to 2011.
Paper: 10, 969 words (plus checklist, notes and addendum).
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