Heide, Kathleen M.
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-436) and index.
• 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 –Publisher’s website.
• Pt. 1: Clinical and legal issues. The phenomenon of parricide Child maltreatment and parricide Parricide : basic facts and literature Matricide : basic facts and literature Patricide : basic facts and literature Prosecuting and punishing parricide offenders Defending parricide offenders — Pt. 2: Case studies. Forensic assessment of parricide offenders Patty Smith : no way out but murder Peter Jones : repeating the past James Holt : the making of a murderer Daniel Culbreath : fantasy becomes reality Ben Simpson : an over-indulged child — Pt. 3: Society’s response. Treating severely abused parricide offenders / with Eldra Solomon, Ph.D. Follow-up studies of parricide offenders Risk assessment and prevention.

Subjects:

• Parricide.
• Family violence.
• Abused children.
• Mentally ill children — Treatment.
• Juvenile homicide.
• Parricide — Case studies.
• Family violence — Case studies.
• Abused children — Case studies.
• Mentally ill children — Treatment — Case studies.
• Juvenile homicide — Case studies.

Requested by Kurpiers, R