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When Mothers Kill : Interviews From Prison by Cheryl L. Meyer, Michelle Oberman, Cheryl Meyer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**Winner of the 2008 Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences** 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 outragedas much by the violence the women have endured in their own lives as by the violence they engaged inbut 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 typologyand to better understand child-killing women not just as types but as individualsOberman 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

Who reads When Mothers Kill : Interviews From Prison?

Author

Cheryl L. Meyer, Michelle Oberman, Cheryl Meyer

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814757024

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Psychology, Social Science

Updated

2026-03-24