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008 140422s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a2013028785
019 $a852235285
020 $a9780199334551 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
020 $a0199334552 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)854848125
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100 1 $aJoiner, Thomas E.
245 14 $aThe perversion of virtue :$bunderstanding murder-suicide /$cThomas Joiner.
264 1 $aNew York, NY:$bOxford University Press,$c[2014].
300 $aviii, 254 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Section 1: Introductory Material -- Chapter 1 Murder-Suicide: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Initial Conceptualization -- Chapter 2 Understanding Murder -- Chapter 3 Understanding Suicide -- Chapter 4 Understanding Virtue -- Section 2: Understanding Murder-Suicide as a Perversion of Virtue -- Chapter 5 A Perversion of Mercy -- Chapter 6 A Perversion of Justice -- Chapter 7 A Perversion of Duty -- Chapter 8 A Perversion of Heroic Glory -- Chapter 9 The Neighboring But Distinct Categories of Perverting Self-Control and Fate -- Section 3: Implications and Conclusions -- Chapter 10 Prevention, Clinical, and Other Real-World Applications -- Chapter 11 Conclusion: Human Nature and the Perversion of Virtue.
520 $a"In The Perversion of Virtue, suicide researcher Thomas Joiner explores the nature of murder-suicide and offers a unique new theory to explain this nearly unexplainable act: that 'true' murder-suicides always involve the wrongheaded invocation of one of four interpersonal virtues"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aSuicide$zUnited States.
650 0 $aHomicide$zUnited States.
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