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Parents Killing Children: Crossing the Invisible Line

Parents Killing Children: Crossing the Invisible Line

Name: Parents Killing Children: Crossing the Invisible Line
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9781472470744
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Author: Janice Sim
ISBN: 9781472470744

By Janice Sim

Routledge September 2018

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781472470744
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: September 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Parents Killing Children: Crossing the Invisible Line explores hidden forms of violence within the family. This socio-legal study addresses the interactions between the family and the state, focusing on six parent perpetrators and the ways in which child endangerment is concealed within society.

Drawing on symbolic interactionism, mythology and a modelling of case study data, this book puts forward a unique conceptualisation of representation and risk, both on familial and state levels. The failure of the state to intervene and neutralise volatile perpetrators also sheds light on the socio-legal status of children – society’s most vulnerable – and the book concludes by discussing means by which the underlying social conditions and maladies symptomatic of child abuse and killing should be addressed.

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Introducing the Six Filicide Cases

Chapter 2 - Symbolic Representation: Forms of Filicidal Violence

Chapter 3 - Mythical Representations: From Myth to Law

Chapter 4 - Modelling Representation

Chapter 5 - Theorising Representation

Chapter 6 - Masculine Representations: Loving Fathers? Failed Representations Leading to Risk

Chapter 7 - Risky Representations

Appendix A - Fieldwork Templates

Bibliography

Index