Why Do They Kill?: Men Who Murder Their Intimate Partners

by David Adams

Book Overview

Moving backwards from the murders thirty-one men committed, through their adult lives, relationship histories, and their childhoods, David Adams sought to understand what motivated these men to kill. The patterns he found reveal that the murders were neither impulsive crimes of passion nor were they indiscriminate. Why Do They Kill? is the first book to profile different types of wife killers, and to examine the courtship patterns of abusive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082651569X
• ISBN13: 9780826515698
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Very interesting book!

This is a great book. I bought it for a research paper I was doing but it is a great read regardless. I am very fascinated by this topic and I really found the book to be informative and interesting. Highly recommend!