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Record Nr.

UNINA9910978263603321

Autore

Websdale Neil

Titolo

Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias : Gray Mist Killings / / Neil Websdale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9781003846598

1-003-84659-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (395 pages)

Collana

Routledge Studies in Criminal Behaviour

Disciplina

364.3/8

Soggetti

Dementia - Patients

Mentally ill offenders

Intimate partner violence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Mere Oblivion -- 1 Gray Mist Killing -- 2 Dementing Illness: A Brief Introduction -- Part 2 Homicide Chronicles -- 3 Dementing Illness and Abnormalities of Mind -- 4 Mercy and Exhaustion -- 5 Prior Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse -- 6 Thieves and Fraudsters -- Part 3 Contemporary Interventions -- 7 Problematic Contemporary Responses -- 8 The Fiction of Prediction: Risk and Danger -- Part 4 Toward a Global Understanding -- 9 Making Sense of Gray Mist Killings -- 10 Global Implications -- Appendix -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores dementia-related aggression, violence, and homicide through a detailed analysis of "gray mist killings.".