Understanding Parricide: When Sons and Daughters Kill by Kathleen M. Heide

By Kathleen M. Heide

Understanding Parricide is the main accomplished ebook on hand approximately juvenile and grownup little children who kill their mom and dad. Dr. Heide strikes some distance in the back of the statistical correlates of parricide through synthesizing the pro literature on parricide normally, matricide, patricide, double parricides, and familicides. As a clinician, she explains the explanations in the back of the killings. Understanding Parricide contains in-depth dialogue of matters concerning prosecuting and protecting parricide offenders. The publication is enriched with its specialize in medical evaluation, case experiences, and follow-up of parricide offenders, in addition to therapy, chance evaluate, and prevention.

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She recalled Marcus’s saying that he hated it there and threatening to kill himself. On one or two occasions, she did send Marcus to his father’s home because he was out of control. Marcus spent over a year there at one point. She thought everything was going well, but she later learned that Marcus was “ditching school” and was out of control there. A few months before the homicide, Marcus was arrested for violation of curfew, possession of marijuana, and driving without a license. The judge who heard the case delivered a stern warning, imposed a fine, and gave permission for Marcus to leave the state to go live with his father.

She acknowledged frequently threatening to send Marcus to live with his father as a way to control him. She recalled Marcus’s saying that he hated it there and threatening to kill himself. On one or two occasions, she did send Marcus to his father’s home because he was out of control. Marcus spent over a year there at one point. She thought everything was going well, but she later learned that Marcus was “ditching school” and was out of control there. A few months before the homicide, Marcus was arrested for violation of curfew, possession of marijuana, and driving without a license.

2 Child abuse and neglect are defined by both federal and state laws. 5 In conceptualizing child maltreatment, as addressed in the CAPTA definition, the law distinguishes between crimes of commission and those of omission. Acts committed upon a child that are harmful are considered to constitute abuse; failure to act that results in harm to the child constitutes neglect. Not surprisingly, the focus in cases involving severely abused children is on the pervasive and extreme nature of the abuse and its threat to the child’s physical and emotional well-being.

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