Psychiatry’s Susan Hatters-Friedman discusses racial disparities in perceptions of mothers accused of killing their children
The New Yorker: Susan Hatters-Friedman, the Phillip J. Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the CWRU School of Medicine and an adjunct professor at the School of Law, discussed racial disparities in how mothers accused of killing their children are perceived. She noted that white mothers, like Lindsay Clancy, often receive sympathy and consideration of mental illness, while Black and brown mothers are more frequently portrayed as criminals.
