Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity Profiling Parricide in Nineteenth-Century America, 1852-1899.
Title:
Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity Profiling Parricide in Nineteenth-Century America, 1852-1899.
Author:
Shon, Phillip Chong Ho.
ISBN:
9781453911693
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Publication Information:
New York : Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (198 pages)
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Sources of conflict; 2. Weapon usage in 19th century; 3. Pre-offense characteristics of nineteenth-century american parricide offenders; 4. Post-offense characteristics of nineteenth-century american parricides; 5. Murder-suicide and mass murder in the context ofparricides; 6. Existential boundary crossings: parricides as identity projects ; 7. Comparing 19th and 20th century parricides ; 8. Reconciling theory and data ; References.
Abstract:
Ever since Oedipus unwittingly killed his father and married his mother in Sophocles'' play, parricide - the killing of a parent or another close relative - has been a dominant motif in works of literature, film, psychoanalytic theory, and criminology. Yet, parricide, for much of the twentieth and twenty-first century, has been framed as an adolescent phenomenon, with child abuse proffered as the overriding cause related to the killing of parents. Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity provides a new way of understanding parricides by analyzing the behavior of offenders and victims at the scene o.
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