Parents Killing Children

<p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p>