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Matricide and Patricide
A father is riddled with bullets; a mother is stabbed multiple times; a family of four—father, mother, and two of their children—is slaughtered by a son, a daughter, acting alone or with others. Crimes like these are universally viewed as abhorrent and have been for centuries. Literary themes involving such figures as Oedipus, Orestes, Alcmaeon, and King Arthur reflect that society has reacted to the killing of one's parents with horror for thousands of years.
In the early 1980s, attention in the United States began to focus on several cases of adolescents who killed one or both parents under harrowing circumstances. From that time on, the term parricide, while technically referring to the killing of a close relative, has become increasingly identified in the public's mind ...
- Delinquency Theories and Theorists
- Albert Cohen
- Biological Theories
- Clifford Shaw
- Cycle of Violence
- Edwin Sutherland
- Fredrick Thrasher
- Henry McKay
- James Short
- Joan McCord
- Lamar T. Empey
- Lloyd Ohlin
- Marvin Wolfgang
- Psychological Theories
- Richard Cloward
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- Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck
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- Stanley G. Hall
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- Waivers to Adult Court
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