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Author_Lita Linzer Schwartz
Author_Natalie Isser
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Child Homicide
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forensic psychology
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Homicidal Mother
Infant Death
Infanticidal Mother
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Insanity Defense
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media influence on crime
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MSBP Case
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Munchausen Syndrome
Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy
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Neonaticidal Mothers
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Postpartum Depression
Postpartum Disorders
postpartum psychosis
pregnancy
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Ra Te
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shaken baby syndrome
SIDS Death
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
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Product details
- ISBN 9780849393662
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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From governments that enact population-limiting legislation or commit wholesale neonaticide, to families who purposely allow a weak, infirm, or unfavorably gendered infant to perish rather than expend limited resources, neonaticide, infanticide, and filicide, are practiced on every continent and by every level of cultural complexity.
Taking an objective and diagnostic approach, Child Homicide: Parents Who Kill examines the crime of neonaticide from all angles including historical, cultural, psychological, and legal. Expanding on the first edition, published as Endangered Children: Neonaticide, Infanticide, and Filicide, this edition details child homicide in its many forms such as shaken baby syndrome and Munchausen-by-Proxy as well as the differing circumstances involved in infanticide and filicide. Unlike many books on the subject, it investigates the behavior of the father--deemed responsible in roughly 75 percent of these cases--whether aggressive, complicit, or merely absent, and his ultimate culpability under the law.
The authors study the influence of today's media, and how its lightning-fast dissemination of these shocking and often complicated stories affect public opinion, copycat crime, and legal bias. This book explains legal defenses including insanity, differential post partum diagnosis such as post-partum psychosis, and discusses new policies, more appropriate, therapeutic punishments, and preventive measures.
Child Homicide: Parents Who Kill places this phenomenon in its historical, cultural, and human context and makes us realize that this is not just someone else's nightmare.
Lita Linzer Schwartz, Natalie Isser
