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Why Do They Kill?: Men Who Murder Their Intimate Partners
David Adams
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Description for Why Do They Kill?: Men Who Murder Their Intimate Partners
Profiles different types of wife killers, and examines the courtship patterns of abusive men. This work shows that wife murders are not "crimes of passion," but culminations of lifelong predisposing factors of the men who murder, and that many elements of their crimes are foretold by their past behavior in intimate relationships. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JKVQ; JMK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 531.
Moving backwards from the murders they committed through their adult lives, relationship histories, and their childhoods, the author sought to understand what motivates the men to kill. The patterns he found reveal that the murders were neither impulsive crimes of passion nor were they indiscriminate. ""Why Do They Kill?"" is the first book to profile different types of wife killers, and to examine the courtship patterns of abusive men. The author shows that wife murders are not, for the most part, ""crimes of passion,"" but culminations of lifelong predisposing factors of the men who murder, and that many elements of ... Read more
Moving backwards from the murders they committed through their adult lives, relationship histories, and their childhoods, the author sought to understand what motivates the men to kill. The patterns he found reveal that the murders were neither impulsive crimes of passion nor were they indiscriminate. ""Why Do They Kill?"" is the first book to profile different types of wife killers, and to examine the courtship patterns of abusive men. The author shows that wife murders are not, for the most part, ""crimes of passion,"" but culminations of lifelong predisposing factors of the men who murder, and that many elements of ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826515681
SKU
V9780826515681
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About David Adams
David Adams, a licensed psychologist, is co-founder and co-director of Emerge, established in 1977, the first counseling program in the nation for men who abused women. He has conducted trainings for social service and criminal justice professionals in 38 states and ten countries. Adams is Director of the National Domestic Violence Danger Assessment Training Project.
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