Childhood Homicide

Abstract
Homicide in the family is a theme of great psychological significance. This paper utilizes multiple published articles of Bloch (1978), Daily & Wilson (1988), Freud (1918), Gelles (1985), Heide (1994, 2012), Mones (1992) and Warren (1969), that reports on the research conducted online (Internet) and offline (non-Internet) and reflects understanding of how child abuse and untreated psychological disorders, influence troubled children to potentially murder. This paper includes a review of an article concerning parricide, which is the killing of one’s father. The article is about a ten year old boy, who murdered his abusive, neo-Nazi father, who was in charge of his regions chapter of the National Socialist Movement (NSM), and thought
(Heide 1994) The family is usually isolated either by geography or behavior and lifestyle from surrounding community. (Mones 1992) The participation in the NSM had isolated the Hall family and they retained their small social circle within the NSM. One or both parents are substance abusers, particularly alcohol. Jeff Hall, the father, was allegedly drunk on a consistent basis. He was also allegedly drunk on the morning of the murder. The crime is always premeditated, in the sense that abused children have thought about killing the abuser for many years. In Joseph’s case he not only thought about it, but had been encouraged to do so, after watching the episode of Criminal Minds. The parent is often sleeping or in a defenseless position when the crime occurs, which does not fit legal definition of “self-defense”. The most tragic characteristics of parricide offenders are that warnings have been ignored, or law enforcement, social services and other agencies repeatedly return the child(s) back to the abuser. Child protective services not only made numerous visits to the Hall’s home, but were aware of the alleged physical and sexual abuse, and did not take the children away or implement some kind of
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