The perversion of virtue understanding murder-suicide
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, a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798185106719 |
| Summary: | 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 the nature of murder-suicide and offers a unique new theory to explain this nearly unexplainable act: that murder-suicides always involve the wrongheaded |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199334575 9780199334568 |
