Homicide: The Hidden Victims
Title | Homicide: The Hidden Victims PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Spungen |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780803957770 |
Social scientist, victim advocate, and the mother of a murder victim - Deborah Spungen is well acquainted with all facets of what she defines as "the blackest hell accompanied by a pain so intense that even breathing becomes an unendurable labor." In Homicide: The Hidden Victims, Spungen illustrates just how and why family members become co-victims when a loved one is murdered, and she poignantly addresses the emotional, physical, spiritual, and psychological effects of such traumatic events. The timely information and innovative modalities discussed in this book make it ideal for mental health and criminal justice professionals, pastoral counselors, social workers, and victim advocates.
Homicide
Title | Homicide PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Spungen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Bereavement |
ISBN | 9781483327389 |
Hidden Victims
Title | Hidden Victims PDF eBook |
Author | Violet M. Franck |
Publisher | |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780882821177 |
When mentally deranged Ken Franck kills four people, he shatters the lives not only of their families, but of his own family. However, his other victims refuse to let hate destroy them. When the victim's son marries, his best man is the murderer's son.
Hidden Victims
Title | Hidden Victims PDF eBook |
Author | Susan F. Sharp |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780813535845 |
Annotation In the US, murderers, particularly those sentenced to death, are usually considered as entirely different from the rest of us. Sociologist Susan F. Sharp challenges perspective by reminding us that those facing a death sentence, in addition to being murderers, are brothers or sisters, mothers or fathers, daughters or sons.
Hidden Victims
Title | Hidden Victims PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren Bradford |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | |
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Studying and Preventing Homicide
Title | Studying and Preventing Homicide PDF eBook |
Author | M. Dwayne Smith |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0761907688 |
An introduction summarizes the social theories of homicide and the methodological issues in the study of homicide. This accessible volume then focuses on specific types of homicides including: mass and serial murders, homicides by youth, gang homicides, domestic homicides, homicides by female offenders, and alcohol/drug related homicides.
And I Don't Want to Live This Life
Title | And I Don't Want to Live This Life PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Spungen |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2011-10-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307807436 |
“Honest and moving . . . Her painful tale is engrossing.”—Washington Post Book World For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a tragedy. Here is the incredible story of an infant who never stopped screaming, a toddler who attacked people, a teenager addicted to drugs, violence, and easy sex, a daughter completely out of control—who almost destroyed her parents’ marriage and the happiness of the rest of her family.