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Author Mallett, Xanthé, author

Title Mothers who murder : and infamous miscarriages of justice / Dr Xanthé Mallett
Published North Sydney : Ebury, 2014
North Sydney, NSW : Ebury Press, 2014
©2014

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Description x, 317 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm
regular print
Series ERA Collection
Summary Child murder: A social taboo and one of the most abhorrent acts most of us can imagine. Meet the women found guilty of murdering their own children. They represent some of the most hated women in Australia. The infamous list includes psychologically damaged, sometimes deranged, women on the edge
Analysis Australian
Homicide
Miscarriage of justice
Mothers
Trials
Notes First published by Ebury Press in 2014
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Audience Adult
Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia -- Case studies.
Evidence, Criminal -- Australia -- Cases.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia.
Filicide -- Australia -- Case studies.
Evidence, Criminal -- Australia.
Infanticide -- Australia -- Case studies.
Filicide -- Australia.
Infanticide -- Australia.
Women murderers -- Australia -- Case studies.
Women murderers -- Australia.
Genre/Form Case studies.
LC no. 2015375577
ISBN 9780857983800