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proud to offer investigators the Child Homicide:
Parents Who Kill, by Lita Linzer Schwartz and Natalie
K. Isser.
• Investigates the role of the father in roughly
75 percent of child homicide cases, a fact virtually ignored
by the media
• Examines all forms of child homicide including Munchausen-by-Proxy,
shaken baby syndrome, and SIDS
• Touches on the controversial topics of abortion and euthanasia
• Explains the differential post-partum diagnoses such as psychosis
and depression and their validity as legal defenses§ Includes
the role of the media in cases such as Andrea Yates'
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.
Table of Contents
Children: An Endangered Species
Throughout History
Gender and Child Homicide
The Literary Legacy
Child Homicide in Literature and Opera
Neonaticide in Theory and in History:
Who Are the Perpetrators?
Sociobiological Perspectives
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
An Historical Perspective
Motives for Murder
Why Murder?
Neonaticide
Infanticide and Filicide
Neonaticide and Its Alternatives
Options in Pregnancy
Why Neonaticide?
Neonaticide and the Law
Legal Ramifications
Variations in Charges and Sentencing
Should Neonaticide Be Punished? If So, How?
Anglo-American Laws and Sentencing
What about the Fathers?
In Transition: From One Form of Child
Homicide to Another
Neonaticide Syndrome
Shaken Baby Syndrome/Shaking Impact Syndrome
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP)
Postpartum Depression Disorders
Differentiating the Disorders
Case Examples
What Can Be Done
Early Diagnosis
Legal Controversies
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Infanticide and Filicide by Parents and
Their Surrogates
Motives
What Kind of Parent…?
Other Motives
Paternal Homicide
Child Abuse
Legal Ramifications
The Survivors
If These Are the Causes …
Neonaticide, Infanticide, Filicide, and the Law
The Insanity Defense
Postpartum Depression and Postpartum Psychosis
Alternative Defenses
In Defense of the Defendant
Variations in Penalties
An Interesting Question
Are the Laws Anti-female?
Looking Back and Ahead
Choice and Reproduction: Political and
Other Arguments
The Abortion Controversy
In the Courts
Euthanasia and Infanticide
Eugenics, Mercy-Killing, and Euthanasia
The Parental Positions
Child Homicide: Preventive Measures
Prevention of Neonaticide
Pregnancy Prevention
Preventing Infanticide and Filicide
Concluding Thoughts and Recommendations
Provide Information
Therapeutic Rehabilitation
The Role of Therapeutic Jurisprudence
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Index |
Hardcover
297 pages
6" X 9"
retail $89.95
Our Price $71.95
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