Research Catalog

Title

Child homicide / by Ania Wilczynski.

Author

Wilczynski, Ania.

Publication

[London] : GMM : [Distributed worldwide by Oxford University Press, 1997]

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Details

Description

280 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Homicide
• Filicide
• Abused children > Mortality
• Children > Mortality
• Children > Crimes against
• Child welfare
• Child Abuse > mortality
• Infanticide
• Infant
• Child
• Homicide > in infancy & childhood
• Child Mortality

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