Why Mothers Kill: A Forensic Psychologist's Casebook

by Geoffrey R. McKee

Few crimes generate greater public reaction than those where a mother murders her child. We are repelled, yet mesmerized, by the emerging details of cases such as Andrea Yates and Susan Smith. Annually, hundreds of infants and young children perish at the hands of their mothers. How could a mother destroy the first and most fundamental relationship we experience?
In Why Mothers Kill: A Forensic Psychologist's Casebook, Geoffrey R. McKee, Ph.D...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195182731
• ISBN13: 9780195182736
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.2"