Research Catalog

Title

Children who murder : a psychological perspective / Robert V. Heckel and David M. Shumaker ; foreword by Eugene Arthur Moore.

Author

Heckel, Robert V.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Shumaker, David M.

Description

xxii, 177 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Due to the extensive changes in family structure such as the increase of single parent families, a high divorce rate, and the decline of the extended family, support systems for young children are in decline. This decline disrupts the support systems' ability to shape children's prosocial values. Because of the fear of lawsuits and limited financial resources, community services and schools no longer provide the framework needed to balance changes in the contemporary family structure. This book provides insight into voids that have created social skills affecting this young population using an integrative approach to examine the casual factors of violent behavior in preteens. It offers suggestions for alleviating some of the causative factors that have created this nationwide problem.

Subject

• Child
• Child psychotherapy
• Forensic psychiatry
• Homicide > psychology
• Juvenile Delinquency > psychology
• Juvenile Delinquency > rehabilitation
• Juvenile homicide > Psychological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-173) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. The research -- 1. Who are they? -- 2. What are they like? -- 3. Who will kill? -- 4. By what means are they dealt? -- pt. 2. Developmental issues -- 5. Moral development -- 6. The changing family -- pt. 3. Assessment and interventions -- 7. Assessment -- 8. Treatment and rehabilitation -- 9. Prevention.

ISBN

0275966186 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00042776^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library