Part I focuses on females as victims and includes a general profile of the victims, their killers, and circumstances of their deaths, followed by a more narrow focus on men who kill their mates. Part II, which features a portrait of homicidal women, contains a single chapter on patterns of homicide among women. Part III contains two chapters that address females as both victim and offender. A comparison of husbands and wives in patterns of marital homicide is followed by an examination of homicides in which females kill one another. Two chapters on child victims are in Part IV. Issues considered are the killers and circumstances of deaths of child homicide victims and when parents kill their young children. Part V discusses patterns of homicide among children, and Part VI contains a single chapter on patterns of homicide among the elderly. Each of the six parts of the book is introduced with a conceptual overview and an updated literature review. 224 references and a subject index