Franklin Zimring Comments on Rarity of Child Murder Cases

Hollister Free Lance, Nov. 21, 2008 by Colin McConville
http://www.freelancenews.com/news/251099-expert-child-murder-cases-not-unthinkably-rare

The recent killing of 19-month-old Donna May Busch is “not part of an ordinary culture of violence,” said Frank Zimring…. The bottom line, though, Zimring said, is that kids can be subjected to their parents’ instabilities. “Children are hostages to the mental and emotional stability of the parents,” Zimring said.