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1 online resource (190 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Stories; The Saddest Stories; "She's the World to Me": The Mother-Daughter Relationships Described by Mothers Who Committed Filicide; Fighting for Love: Filicidal Mothers and Their Male Partners; Mothering: Hopes, Expectations, and Realities; Punishment, Shame, and Guilt; Part II: Making Sense of the Stories; Interactions with the State: Holes in the Safety Nets; The End of the Story; Appendix A: Methodology; Appendix B: Neonaticide; Appendix C: Mothers Who Purposely Kill Their Children; Notes; Index; About the Authors |
| Summary |
Winner of the 2008 Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer don't write for news magazines or prime-time investigative television shows, but the stories they tell hold the same fascination. When Mothers Kill is compelling. In a clear, direct fashion the authors recount what they have learned from interviewing women imprisoned for killing their children. Readers will be shocked and outraged--as much by the violence the women have endured in their own lives as by the violence they engaged in--but they will also be informed and e |
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book |
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deeply |
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filled |
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have |
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mothers |
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moving |
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stories |
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| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ohio Reformatory for Women.
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| SUBJECT |
Ohio Reformatory for Women fast |
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Infanticide -- United States -- Case studies
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Filicide -- United States -- Case studies
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Women murderers -- United States -- Interviews
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Women prisoners -- United States -- Interviews
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Filicide
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Infanticide
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Women murderers
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Women prisoners
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United States
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Case studies
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Interviews
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Meyer, Cheryl L
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| ISBN |
9780814762516 |
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0814762514 |
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