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Why Mothers Kill: A Forensic Psychologist's Casebook By Geoffrey R. McKee ( Oxford University Press, USA )
Release Date: 2006-03-16
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Few crimes generate greater public reaction than those where a mother murders her child. We are repelled, yet mesmerized, by the emerging details of cases such as Andrea Yates and Susan Smith. Annually, hundreds of infants and young children perish at the hands of their mothers. How could a mother destroy the first and most fundamental relationship we experience?
In Why Mothers Kill: A Forensic Psychologist's Casebook, Geoffrey R. McKee, Ph.D. uses more than a dozen case studies from his 29-year forensic psychological evaluation practice to help us, and most importantly, prevent these horrific events from occurring. He applies current research findings to analyze, explain, and suggest practical interventions to alter the personal, familial, and situational circumstances that may influence some mothers to kill. With an emphasis on prevention, Dr. McKee sets out specific strategies that might have been employed at various "risk intervention points" occurring before the child's death.
Through the use of extended narratives the author brings to life the thoughts and emotions experienced by women in each of the five categories of mothers he has identified from his years of practice. Additionally, the author presents the Maternal Filicide Risk Matrix which he developed to help mental health and medical professionals determine the risk and protective factors that lead mothers to kill their children.
Students, as well as mental health and medical professionals will find this an important and unique resource.
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More than expected
Excellent. Before reading, I thought it was just a review of cases, but it was more than that. In Chapter 2, the author give a concise and good review of research in the topic of filicide. The author discuss maternal filicide characteristics in terms of demograpgic, education, IQ, marital status, and many other historical characteristics of the cases as well as victim's characteristics. I like the case analysis and the epilogue in which he satisfies our curiosity and give us an update of what happened to each one of the perpetrators after the prosecution. Interesting the many suggestions the author brings light for risk prevention at intervention points.
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Relevant and Readable
Why Mothers Kill: A title that beacons you to take a second look at this book. It is well worth the look and the read... an in depth research based book that points mental health professionals toward interventions where they might lower the risk of the deaths of children. In today's society we must understand why these crimes occur and do what we can do to prevent these acts of violence. It is readable, relevent, based on research and full of the how tos of interventions so we can help prevent these type of crime.
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Essential Resource for Forensic Practitioners in Cases of Neonaticide, Infanticide, and Filicide ( emart228 )
Why Mothers Kill: A Forensic Psychologist's Casebook is a comprehensive resource for forensic psychologists, psychiatrists who are drawn into this complex and difficult area of practice. The book is the only real guide of its type in the professional literature and will be of great use both for those working to prevent such tragedies and for those involved in cases where the worst has already occurred. It is well written and organized and provides many case examples.
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