Understanding Parricide: When Sons and Daughters Kill Parents

Understanding Parricide: When Sons and Daughters Kill Parents
ISBN-10
0199721041
ISBN-13
9780199721047
Category
Social Science
Pages
464
Language
English
Published
2012-11-16
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Kathleen M. Heide

Description

Understanding Parricide is the most comprehensive book available about juvenile and adult sons and daughters who kill their parents. Dr. Heide moves far behind the statistical correlates of parricide by synthesizing the professional literature on parricide in general, matricide, patricide, double parricides, and familicides. As a clinician, she explains the reasons behind the killings. Understanding Parricide includes in-depth discussion of issues related to prosecuting and defending parricide offenders. The book is enriched with its focus on clinical assessment, case studies, and follow-up of parricide offenders, as well as treatment, risk assessment, and prevention.

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