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The Perversion of Virtue - Understanding Murder-Suicide (Hardcover, New)
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The Perversion of Virtue - Understanding Murder-Suicide (Hardcover, New)
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Of the approximately 38,500 deaths by suicide in the U.S. annually,
about two percent - between 750 and 800 - are murder-suicides. The
horror of the murder-suicide looms large in the public
consciousness-they are reported in the media with more frequently
and far more sensationalism than most suicides, and yet very little
research has been conducted on this grave form of violence. 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: mercy, justice, duty, and glory. The parent who murders
his child and then himself seeks to 'save' his child from a
fatherless life of hardship; the wife who murders her husband and
then herself seeks to right the wrongs he committed against her,
and so on. Rather than distorting these four virtues beyond
recognition, murder-suicide involves the gross misperception of
when and how these virtues should be applied. Drawing on case
studies from the media as well as from scholarly literature, Joiner
meticulously examines, deconstructs, and finally rebuilds our
understanding of murder-suicide in such a way as to bring tragic
reason to what may seem an unfathomable act of violence. Along the
way he also dispels some of the most enduring myths of suicide -
for instance, that suicide is usually an impulsive act (it is
almost always premeditated), or that alcohol or drugs are involved
in most suicides (usually they are not). Sure to be controversial,
this book seeks to make sense of one of the most
difficult-to-comprehend types of violence in modern society,
shedding new light that will ultimately lead to better
understanding and even prevention.
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