Re: women who kill their children

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See Ania Wilczynski (1997) Child Homicide. London: Greenwich Medical
Media. for a thorough review of the wolrd wide literature on the
subject. Murray Levine

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Tasha Howe wrote:

> A colleague of mine just wrote a book about child murders by family members.
> It's called The Loss of Innocents by Cara Richards. She's an anthropologist so
> it's quite qualitative but it might help.
> 
> Shauna Ezell wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have a list of references or information regarding the etiology,
> > personality styles, and/or environmental (including family dynamics) factors
> > of women that kill their children?  I am not looking at physical abuse but
> > rather an, intentional, homicidal act similar to the woman that drove her
> > children into the lake and then claimed they had been abducted (was that the
> > Susan Smith case?).  Thanks, Shauna Ezell
> >
> > sezell@lssia.org
> 
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