RT Book
T1 Child homicide: parents who kill
T2 Forensics and criminal justice
A1 Schwartz, Lita Linzer
A1 Isser, Natalie
LA English
PP Boca Raton, Fla. u.a.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2007
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/511397771
AB From governments that enapt 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, and filicide are practiced on every continent and by every level of cultural complexity. What is endorsed in literature, biblical story, and fairy tale is condemned in popular culture. 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. The book details child homicide in its many forms such as shaken baby syndrome and Munchhausen by Proxy as well as the differing circumstances involved in infanticide and filicide. Unlike many books on the subject, it investigates the behaviour of the father - responsible in roughly 75 percent of these cases - whether aggressive, compolicit, or merely absent, and his ultimate culpability under the law ...
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-282) and index
CN HV6542
SN 0849393663
K1 Filicide
K1 Infanticide
K1 Homicide
K1 Children : Crimes against
K1 USA : Eltern : Kindestötung