Fatal Families: The Dynamics of Intrafamilial Homicide

by Charles Patrick Ewing

Book Overview

For most Americans regardless of where they live the risk of being murdered is much greater in their own homes than on any main street on which they are ever likely to walk. Every year, nearly half of the more than 20,0000 homicide victims are related to or acquainted with their killers. Alcohol abuse, mental illness, and criminality figure largely in intrafamilial homicide. But, whatever the scenario behind the murder, murder within families is the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761907599
• ISBN13: 9780761907596
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"