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OverviewFrom 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lita Linzer Schwartz , Natalie IsserPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: CRC Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.566kg ISBN: 9780849393662ISBN 10: 0849393663 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 15 August 2006 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChildren: An Endangered Species Throughout History. Neonaticide in Theory and in History: Who are the Perpetrators of Neonaticide? Motives for Murder. Neonaticide and Its Alternatives. Neonaticide and the Law. Infanticide and Filicide by Parents and Their Surrogates. Neonaticide, Infanticide, Filicide, and the Law. Choice and Reproduction: Political and Other Arguments. Child Homicide: Preventive Measures. Concluding Thoughts and Recommendations.ReviewsAuthor InformationLita Linzer Schwartz, Natalie Isser Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |