Mothers Who Kill Their Children : : Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom" / / Cheryl L. Meyer, Michelle Oberman.
A special kind of horror is reserved for mothers who kill their children. Cases such as those of Susan Smith, who drowned her two young sons by driving her car into a lake, and Melissa Drexler, who disposed of her newborn baby in a restroom at her prom, become media sensations. Unfortunately, in add...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2001] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2001 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION A Brief Cross-Cultural History of Infanticide
- 1 PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS TO UNDERSTAND WHY MOTHERS KILL THEIR CHILDREN
- 2 DENIAL OF PREGNANCY Secret Lives
- 3 PURPOSEFUL KILLING Neither “Mad” nor “Bad”
- 4 MATERNAL NEGLECT A Search for Meaning
- 5 ABUSE-RELATED DEATHS
- 6 ASSISTANCE OR COERCION FROM A PARTNER Relations to Domestic Violence
- 7 RESPONDING TO MOTHERS WHO KILL Toward a Comprehensive Rethinking of Law, Policy, and Intervention Strategies
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS