Skip to main content

Self-Defense and Female-Perpetrated Violence

  • Living reference work entry
  • First Online:
Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Archer, J. (2000). Sex differences in aggression between heterosexual partners: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 126(5), 651–680.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Buss, D. M. (2000). The dangerous passion. New York: Free Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Buss, D. M. (2006). The murderer next door. New York: Penguin Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Campbell, A. (2013). The evolutionary psychology of women's aggression. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 368(1631), 1–11.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cross, C. P., & Campbell, A. (2011). Womens aggression. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 16(5), 390–398.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Daly, M., & Wilson, M. (1988). Homicide. New York: Aldine De Gruyter.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smuts, B. (1992). Male aggression against women. Human Nature, 3(1), 1–44.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wilson, M., & Daly, M. (1985). Competitiveness, risk taking, and violence: The young male syndrome. Ethology and Sociobiology, 6(1), 59–73.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Rachel M. James .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Section Editor information

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2018 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this entry

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this entry

James, R.M., Shackelford, T.K. (2018). Self-Defense and Female-Perpetrated Violence. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3674-1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3674-1

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-16999-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-16999-6

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Behavioral Science and PsychologyReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences

Publish with us

Policies and ethics