Parents Killing Children

Crossing the Invisible Line

Janice Sim (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

318 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-58550-1 (ISBN)

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This book presents the stories of six parents who portray themselves and are portrayed by others as loving, compliant and caring towards their children, and who were never thought of as dangerous prior to their crime. It re-examines the confluence of events that led to the failure of state workers neutralising the danger to the child.

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.

Janice Sim is a Lecturer at Griffith University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and a Griffith University Law Futures Centre Associate Member. She convenes Introduction to Maritime Law at the Griffith Law School. Janice completed her doctorate at the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney and was a post-doctorate Fellow. She has an eclectic range of research interests in, but not limited to, filicide, child protection, intervention, representation, vulnerable populations, piracy and maritime law and security.

1: Preface; 2: Introduction; 3: Chapter 1 - Introducing the Six Filicide Cases; 4: Chapter 2 - Symbolic Representation: Forms of Filicidal Violence; 5: Chapter 3 - Mythical Representations: From Myth to Law; 6: Chapter 4 - Modelling Representation; 7: Chapter 5 - Theorising Representation; 8: Chapter 6 - Masculine Representations: Loving Fathers? Failed Representations Leading to Risk; 9: Chapter 7 - Risky Representations; 10: Appendix A - Fieldwork Templates; 11: Bibliography; 12: Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	0-367-58550-2 / 0367585502
ISBN-13	978-0-367-58550-1 / 9780367585501
Zustand	Neuware