Why Kids Kill Parents: Child Abuse and Adolescent Homicide

by Kathleen M. Heide

Book Overview

A tragic portrait of adolescents who kill their parents is revealed in this volume: these young people almost always kill out of desperation as they are almost always victims of severe child abuse,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814205631
• ISBN13: 9780814205631
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Great resource.

Great one-stop-shopping source for balanced information on parricide. Not as useful for the doomsday "something is wrong with the youth of today" readers.