Understanding parricide: when sons and daughters kill parents

Pt. I: Clinical and legal issues : The phenomenon of parricide ; Child maltreatment and parricide ; Parricide: basic facts and literature ; Matricide: basic facts and literature ; Patricide: basic facts and literature ; Prosecuting and punishing parricide offenders ; Defending parricide offenders

Pt. II: Case studies : Forensic assessment of parricide offenders ; Patty Smith - No way out but murder ; Peter Jones - Repeating the past ; James Holt - The making of a murderer ; Daniel Culbreath - Fantasy becomes reality ; Ben Simpson - An over-indulged child

Pt. III: Society's response : Treating severely abused parricide offenders / with Eldra Solomon, Ph.D. ; Follow-up studies of parricide offenders ; Risk assessment and prevention.