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Filicide in the United States


Filicide in the United States - PMC

Child murder by parents (filicide) is one of the most upsetting types of crime. It is even more distressing when a mother kills her child than when a father ...

Category:Filicides in the United States - Wikipedia

The main article for this category is Filicide. Subcategories. This ... Pages in category "Filicides in the United States". The following 74 pages ...

Analysis: 32 years of U.S. filicide arrests | News from Brown

Analysis: 32 years of U.S. filicide arrests

. February 25, 2014 Media contact: David Orenstein 401-863 ... The overall and annual numbers of filicides ...

Filicide: A Brief Overview of Child Homicide by Parent(s)

The legal consequences for committing filicide (child murder) vary between jurisdictions. The legal system has sometimes displayed leniency ...

Filicide - Wikipedia

Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child. The word filicide is derived from the Latin words filius and filia ('son' and ...

Child murder by mothers: patterns and prevention - PMC

The tragedy of maternal filicide, or child murder by mothers, has occurred throughout history and throughout the world. This review of the research ...

A parent killing a child happens more often than we think - CNN

The reality is, filicides happen with depressing regularity in the US ... filicide cases (between 1976 and 2007) and found they occurred about ...

Victims of Family, Filicide in the United States: The Caylee Anthony ...

Filicide, or the death of a child at the hands of a parent, is the topic of this paper with a focus on the case of Casey Anthony and her daughter. Caylee was ...

Factors contributing to filicide-suicide: Differences between male ...

Background. One-quarter of homicide-suicide deaths in the U.S. are children. Filicide-suicide, a subset of homicide-suicide involving parent or caregiver ...

Mothers Who Kill - Santa Clara Law Digital Commons

This insight is crucial for those hoping to understand and to curtail the persistence of child abuse, generally, and of maternal filicide, in particular. The ...

Classifications and Descriptions of Parents Who Commit Filicide

Filicide, or the murder of one's children, while an unthinkable crime by most people, is seen in many countries around the world and in every social class.

Infanticide and Filicide - American Psychiatric Association Publishing

Maternal filicide—the killing of a child by the mother—is not a new phenomenon. Evidence of mothers killing their infant's dates back to at least 2000 ...

Child Homicide Is a Leading Cause of Death—and Rates Are Rising

Current data show an alarming rise in child homicides in the United States, underscoring a need for efforts to prevent violence to and by youth.

Child Murder by Mothers: A Critical Analysis of the Current State of ...

Method: Databases were systematically searched for studies of maternal filicide and neonaticide (murder in the first day of life) that were conducted in ...

A Review of Maternal and Paternal Filicide - CiteSeerX

Filicide, the murder of a child by a parent, is a multifaceted phenomenon with various causes and characteristics. This review of the existing literature ...

Global study on homicide: Killing of children and young adults

10–12. 55. Holden, C. E., Burland, A. S. and Lemmen, C. A., “Insanity and filicide: women who murder their ...

Anti-Filicide Toolkit - Office of Administrative Law

Filicide indicates a decision to murder. These decisions are deliberate and often premeditated for days or weeks. The perpetrators of filicides are often ...

A Review of Maternal and Paternal Filicide

The terms filicide, neonaticide, and infanticide have been used interchangeably in the literature on child homicide. Filicide is the murder of a child by a ...

A multidisciplinary analysis of 32 years of U.S. arrest data

Spouse revenge filicide is the killing of a child by a parent in order to make the other parent suffer. Differences have been reported between filicides ...

Murder in Families - Bureau of Justice Statistics

16% of murder victims were members of the defendant's family: 6.5% were killed by their spouses, 3.5% by their parents, 1.9% by their own children, 1.5% by ...