Death Threats and Violence: New Research and Clinical Perspectives

by Stephen J. Morewitz

Book Overview

Until recent decades, there was little emphasis on studying death threats as a social or psychological phenomenon. However, since the 1960s, attacks on public officials and celebrities and the ubiquitous nature of homicidal threats in face-to-face re- tions have spawned research and new organizational responses to death threats and related behaviors, such as stalking. Publicized workplace-related death threats and shootings, such as the 21 separate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387766618
• ISBN13: 9780387766614
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.6"