To abuse or neglect a child, to deprive the child of a separate identity and joy in life, is to
commit soul murder.... In this book, Dr. Leonard Shengold explores various forms of child
abuse and deprivation and the resulting psychological trauma that often surface when the …

Continuing in the same well-written and accessible style as the previous editions, this text
systematically examines the strange phenomenon of serial murder. Exploring the different
types of serial killers, the authors present a clear image of the typology, behavioral patterns …

It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man
shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for
making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After shooting van Gogh …

0571094651 - Bloody Murder: from the Detective Story to the Crime . Bloody Murder: From the
Detective Story to the Crime Novel : a History. Front Cover. Julian Symons. Pan, 1994 - Crime
and criminals in literature - 365 pages. Bloody Murder - From The Detective Story To The Crime …

Objective.—To review the epidemiology, patterns, and major determinants of murder-suicide
and to discuss the clinical and research strategies for identifying the individuals at greatest
risk for this type of violence. Data Sources.—Data were obtained from English-language …

In The Simple Art of Murder, which was prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the
same name, noir master Raymond Chandler argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective
novel, and this collection, mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps, demonstrates …

In Murder Most Foul, Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New
England sermons read at the public execution of murderers, through the nineteenth century,
when secular and sensational accounts replaced the religious treatment of the crime as the …

The author reviews 131 cases of child murder and proposes a new classification of filicide
by apparent motive: altruistic, acutely psychotic, unwanted child, accidental, and spouse
revenge. The high frequency of altruistic motives distinguishes filicide from other homicides …

Two attitudes are possible: one, that the world is an absolute jungle and that the exercise of
coercive power by rulers is only a manifestation of this; and the other, that it is both
necessary and right that there should be this exercise of power, that through it the world is …