| Description |
1 online resource (333 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Table of cases; Table of legal instruments; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Purpose; Definitions; Themes; Symbolic interaction theory; Mind and method: why a case study method?; Symbolic interactionism; Literature review; Review of various cultural representations; Method; Broad representation of the study; Justifying the case study methodology; Book structure; 1 Introducing the six filicide cases; Introduction; Recounting the 'voice'; Horace Faulkner; Jubilee Soprano; Capello Steppenwolf; Hannah Bromley |
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Danny BurrowJack Drummond; Conclusion; 2 Symbolic representation: forms of filicidal violence; Introduction; Violence in child killing: meaning and context; Masking: an introduction; Forms of violence; Short study: Mark and Libby; Short study: Greta Sheng; Short study: Isabel and Paul; Conclusion; 3 Mythical representations: from myth to law; Introduction; Mythology; Myth-making; The myths: Medea and Heracles; Developing socio-legal archetypes; The role of law: evolution of infanticide law; Socio-legal filicidal parent representation: the cases; Conclusion; 4 Modelling representation |
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IntroductionDefinitions; Degrees of representation; The models introduced; Model 1 explained; Model 2 explained; Conclusion; 5 Theorising representation; Introduction; Theorising representation; The audience and the receivership of meaning; Media representation; The purpose of representation; Governing purpose of the bad parent representation; Symbolic implications overshadowing Western perceptions of parenthood; Conclusion; 6 Masculine representations: loving fathers? Failed representations leading to risk; Introduction; Patriarchy; The state of dysfunction; Masculine representation |
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Mirroring the state and the 'Father': 'mandatory' interventionA form of male disempowerment; The mask of the loving father: the invisibility cloak over dysfunction; Interacting dysfunction; Conclusion; 7 Risky representations; Introduction; Deconstructing representation and risk; Children's rights; National and international developments and the legal mandate to intervene; Risk; The context of risk in child protection and the law; Risks in filicide; Conclusion; Appendix: fieldwork templates; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Family violence.
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Family violence -- Case studies
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Children -- Crimes against.
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Filicide.
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Children -- Crimes against
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Family violence
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Filicide
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317084105 |
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1317084101 |
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9781317084099 |
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1317084098 |
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