Understanding Parricide: When Sons and Daughters Kill Parents

by Kathleen M. Heide

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195176669
• ISBN13: 9780195176667
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"