Parents Killing Children

Crossing the Invisible Line

Janice Sim

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Routledge
03 October 2018

Social work; Crime & criminology; Criminal law & procedure; Family law; Social law

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.

By: Janice Sim
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781472470744
ISBN 10: 1472470745
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 03 October 2018
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.