THE KIDS NEXT DOOR Sons and Daughters Who Kill Their Parents.

Hardback, 1st US edn. True accounts of children who killed their parents, emphasising society's failure to deal with abused and mentally ill children and with the unequal treatment juvenile offenders receive. At the time of the book's publication, some 400 children (within the USA) killed their parents, and many more attempted or contemplated parracide. The majority came from middle-class families. The author interviewed participants in more than a dozen of these family trgedies - the children themselves and surviving parents, the prosecutors, judges, and doctors, - for firsthand perspectives. Most of the cases fell into one of two categories - abused children and mentally ill children - yet the legal and medical establishments had been slow to act. A book which is both a shocking and enlightening study of why children kill their parents. With Index. 306pp. 8vo. h/back. Nr. F. in sl. sunned Vg+ dw.