Mothers Who Kill Their Children : : Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom" /

Mothers Who Kill Their Children : : Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom" / / Cheryl L. Meyer, Michelle Oberman.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Meyer, Cheryl L.,
Oberman, Michelle,
MitwirkendeR:
Rone, Michelle,
White, Kelly,
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

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