Meyer and Oberman--in their desire to better understand mothers who kill--recount their interviews with women imprisoned for maternal filicide and reveal the co

An inside look into patterns and potential prevention plans for one of the most hotly sensationalized crimes A special kind of horror is reserved for mothers wh

1. Introduction2. Neonaticide, infanticide, and filicide research: What do we know?3. Classification of maternal filicide: What do we know?4. Risk analysis and

This compelling and unique collection of critical and creative work assesses for the first time cultural, literary, legal and historical representations and nar

Maternal infanticide, or the murder of a child in its first year of life by its mother, elicits sorrow, anger, horror, and outrage. But the perpetrator is often