Lethal Violence: A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Violence

by Hall; Harold V.

• ISBN13: 9780849370038
• ISBN10: 0849370035
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-23
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Lethal Violence: A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression applies the lethal violence sequence analysis to a wide-ranging array of fatal aggression, resulting in a multitude of observations and principles of violence. This sourcebook provides base rate information and cases for each type of fatal interaction, then applies the knowledge to violence-related situations and settings.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v	(2)
Foreword	vii
Florence Kaslow
PART I FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES	1	(202)
Chapter 1 Overview of Lethal Violence	1	(52)
Harold V. Hall
Chapter 2 Brain Dysfunction and Lethal Violence	53	(26)
Douglas Johnson-Greene
Kenneth M. Adams
Chapter 3 Sex Differences in Juvenile Violence	79	(34)
Robert F. Eme
Chapter 4 Violence, Viewing and Development: Does Violence in the Media Cause Violence in Youth?	113	(30)
Lita L. Schwartz
Rosalie Matzkin
Social Inducements to Paralethal and Lethal Violence	143	(32)
Leighton C. Whitaker
Victim-Precipitated Homicide	175	(28)
William Foote
PART II-FAMILY AND JUVENILE VIOLENCE	203	(108)
Chapter 7 When Mothers Murder: Understanding Infanticide By Females	203	(28)
Sally H. Barlow
Claudia J. Clayton
Chapter 8 Spousal Homicide	231	(28)
V. Edwin Bixenstine
Chapter 9 Violence in the Family	259	(34)
Joseph G. Poirier
Chapter 10 Murder-Suicide	293	(18)
Michael F. Abramsky
Melissa Helfman
PART III-CRIMINAL VIOLENCE	311	(158)
Chapter 11 Workplace Violence: A New Form of Lethal Aggression	311	(28)
Theodore B. Feldmann
Philip W. Johnson
Chapter 12 Violence and the Sexual Paraphilias	339	(24)
Judith Boczkowski Chapman
Chapter 13 Serial Murder	363	(20)
Patrick E. Cook
Dayle L. Hinman
Murder and Sex Murder: Psychopathology and Psychodynamics	383	(20)
Louis B. Schlesinger
Chapter 15 Aircraft Hijacking in the United States	403	(38)
Phillip W. Johnson
Theodore B. Feldmann
Chapter 16 Insanity and Mitigation to Murder	441	(28)
Sandra B. Mcpherson
PART IV -- EVALUATION AND INTERVENTION	469	(144)
Chapter 17 Intervention in Lethal Violence	469	(10)
Harold V. Hall
Chapter 18 Psychometric Testing and Lethal Violence	479
Charles J. Golden
Michele L. Jackson
Samuel T. Gontkovsky
Angela Peterson-Rohne
Chapter 19 MMPI-Based Psychological Assessment of Lethal Violence	419
Robert J. Craig
Chapter 20 Healing the Wounds of Sibling Survivors of Lethal Violence	527	(16)
Mary S. Cerney
Chapter 21 Cognitive Retraining of Cerebral Deficits Associated With Violent Behavior	543	(18)
Marc S. Walter
Chapter 22 The Hostage Trade: Takers, Victims, and Negotiators	561	(28)
John A. Call
Chapter 23 Beyond Conflict and Competition: Diversity, Cooperation, and Life Affirmation as Alternatives to Violence	589	(24)
Lucian A. Buck
References	613	(94)
Subject Index	707