@article{351889,
      recid = {351889},
      author = {Oberman, Michelle. and Meyer, Cheryl L.,},
      title = {When mothers kill interviews from prison / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {New York University Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 179 p.)},
      year = {2008},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {From the Publisher: Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer  don't write for news magazines or prime-time investigative  television shows, but the stories they tell hold the same  fascination. When Mothers Kill is compelling. In a clear,  direct fashion the authors recount what they have learned  from interviewing women imprisoned for killing their  children. Readers will be shocked and outraged-as much by  the violence the women have endured in their own lives as  by the violence they engaged in-but they will also be  informed and even enlightened. Oberman and Meyer are  leading authorities on their subject. Their 2001 book,  Mothers Who Kill Their Children, drew from hundreds of  newspaper articles as well as from medical and social  science journals to propose a comprehensive typology of  "maternal filicide." In that same year, driven by a desire  to test their typology-and to better understand  child-killing women not just as types but as  individuals-Oberman and Meyer began interviewing women who  had been incarcerated for the crime. After conducting  lengthy, face-to-face interviews with forty prison inmates,  they returned and selected eight women to speak with at  even greater length. This new book begins with these  stories, recounted in the matter-of-fact words of the  inmates themselves. There are collective themes that emerge  from these individual accounts, including histories of  relentless interpersonal violence, troubled relationships  with parents (particularly with mothers), twisted notions  of romantic love, and deep conflicts about motherhood.  These themes structure the book's overall narrative, which  also includes an insightful examination of the social and  institutional systems that have failed these women. Neither  the mothers nor the authors offer these stories as excuses  for these crimes.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351889},
}