This work examines the nature, causes and consequences of family homicide in modern American society. Using a case study approach, the author explores the social, cultural and psychological forces that lead people to kill members of their own families.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
All in the Family
Batterers Who Kill
Battered Women Who Kill
Munchausen Mothers
Post-Partum Homicides
Disppearing, Disposable Babies
Child Abuse Fatalities
Patricides
Fratricide and Sororicide
Familicide
The Future of Fatal Families
Klappentext
Every year, nearly half of the more than 20,000 murder victims in the United States are related to or acquainted with their killers. Fatal Families explores the social, cultural and psychological forces, as well as the nature and consequences that lead people to kill members of their own families. Drawing on his professional background in law and psychology, and using case studies, Charles Patrick Ewing points the way to measures that can be taken to reduce the terrifying number of murders within families.
