Kathleen M Heide: 4 books
Animal Cruelty
Pathway to Violence Against People
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Practitioners in the animal welfare field, law enforcement circles, and social services arena have often maintained that childhood cruelty to animals is a forerunner to violence against people. Does this behavior serve as a red flag with respect to extremely violent offenders, such as serial killers?...
Why Kids Kill Parents
Child Abuse and Adolescent Homicide
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1994
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, neglect and dysfunctional parenting.
Drawing upon her experience as a clinician, expert witness...
Understanding Parricide
When Sons and Daughters Kill Parents
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Understanding Parricide is the most comprehensive book available about juvenile and adult sons and daughters who kill their parents. Dr. Heide moves far behind the statistical correlates of parricide by synthesizing the professional literature on parricide in general, matricide, patricide, double...
Young Killers
The Challenge of Juvenile Homicide
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 1998
Providing an empirical assessment of male adolescent murderers and systematic case presentations of several juvenile homicide offenders, Young Killers addresses psychological assessment, treatment issues and prevention strategies aimed at reducing the incidence of juvenile homicide.