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Child homicide / by Ania Wilczynski.
- Title
- Child homicide / by Ania Wilczynski.
- Author
- Wilczynski, Ania.
- Publication
- [London] : GMM : [Distributed worldwide by Oxford University Press, 1997]
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Text | Request in advance | HV6542 .W55 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 280 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- "The main focus of the book is on filicide, the killing of children by their parents or parent-substitutes such as step-fathers"--Introd.
- Pages 279-280 blank.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-269) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Methodology -- Ch. 2. The Hidden Crime: The 'Dark Figure' of Child Homicide -- Ch. 3. Parents Who Kill: A Classification by Motive -- Ch. 4. Characteristics and Context: Common Background Risk Factors -- Ch. 5. Crazy Mothers and Evil Fathers: Courts Judge Parents Who Kill -- Ch. 6. Hormones and Homicide: The Operation of the Infanticide Legislation -- Ch. 7. 'Stranger Danger': A Comparison of Filicidal and Non-Familial Child-Killings -- Ch. 8. Child Death Review Teams: Reviewing the Past to Prevent in the Future -- Ch. 9. Improving the Professional Response: What Can we Learn From Child Deaths?
- ISBN
- 1900151502
- LCCN
- ^^^97212709^
- OCLC
- 37574944
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library