The Perversion of Virtue: Understanding Murder-Suicide

by Thomas E. Joiner

Book Overview

Of the approximately 38,500 deaths by suicide in the U.S. annually, about two percent--between 750 and 800--are murder-suicides. The horror of murder-suicides looms large in the public consciousness--they are reported in the media with more frequency and far more sensationalism than most suicides, and yet we have little understanding of this grave form of violence.

In The Perversion of Virtue, leading suicide researcher Thomas Joiner explores...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199334552
• ISBN13: 9780199334551
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.6"