Child homicide in New South Wales from 1991 to 2005

Nielssen, Olav; Large, Matthew; Westmore, Bruce; Lackersteen, Steven Malcolm

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02252.x

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“…For example, Nielssen, Large, Westmore, and Lackersteen (2009) found in their Australian study that 7 of 157 (4%) child homicide offenders committed filicide-suicide. This is a considerably lower figure than the 33% reported in this study.…”

Section: The Proportion Of Filicide-suicides Remains Relatively Highmentioning

confidence: 99%

Child Homicides in Sweden

Sturup

Granath²

2014

Homicide Studies

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The objective of the study was to examine the change in child homicides in Sweden between the 1990s and the 2000s based on a study of all cases registered during the periods 1990-1996 and 2002-2008. The results show a significant annual 4% decrease in the number of child homicides, with the main decline being due to a decrease in cases of filicide-suicide among both fathers and mothers. One possible explanation for the decrease may be the increases in the general prescription of antidepressant medication. However, other factors may also have played a significant role in the decline as well.

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Section: The Proportion Of Filicide-suicides Remains Relatively Highmentioning

confidence: 99%

Child Homicides in Sweden

Sturup

Granath²

2014

Homicide Studies

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“…As there are few studies specific to the factors associated with NAHI (Jayawant et al ., ; Kelly et al ., ; Ricci et al ., ; Ryan et al ., ), comparisons must also be made with general child abuse research. This shows that families in which abuse occurs are characterised by high rates of substance abuse, unemployment, forensic histories, mental illness and financial hardship (Cavanagh et al ., ; Delfabbro et al ., ; Dolan et al ., ; Nielssen et al ., ; Wilczynski, ).…”

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The Placement of Children Following Non‐Accidental Head Injuries: Are They Protected From Further Harm?

Stephens

Oates

2014

Child Abuse Review

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Key Practitioner Messages: Most children with non‐accidental head injury are removed from their parents in New South Wales, Australia. Despite high rates of removal, re‐notification to the statutory authority, including for risk of physical harm, remains high. Further research is needed on how placement might affect ongoing involvement of non‐accidental head injury victims with the statutory authority.

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“…Many investigators have suggested that the magnitude of fatal child abuse has been underestimated (Herman-Giddens et al, 1999;Crume et al, 2002). Young child and infant homicide are frequently related to child abuse and psychiatric dysfunction in a parent or custodial adult (Friedman et al, 2005;Jenny & Isaac, 2006;Nielssen et al, 2009). The problem of young child and infant homicide in the United States began receiving increased attention in the 1960's (Adelson, 1961;Kempe et al, 1962).…”

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The Dependence of Reported Homicide Rates on Reported Non-Motor Vehicle Accident Death Rates in US Young Children and Infants, 1940-2007

Riggs

Hobbs²

2013

AASoci

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An analysis of the relationship between reported homicides and reported non-motor vehicle accident deaths in young children and infants was performed. Reported young child (aged 1 to less than 5 years) and infant (aged less than 1 year) homicide and non-motor vehicle accident mortality rates in boys and girls in the United States from 1940 to 2007 were analyzed using the 4-parameter logistic model. Homicide rate growth over time displayed sigmoid curves with inflection points near 1968 in young children and near 1984 in infants. Using the maximum and minimum homicide rate asymptotes from those analyses over time, 4-parameter logistic model between homicide rates and non-motor vehicle mortality rates suggests that 84.2% and 94.2% of the variation in young child homicide rates, in boys and girls respectively, can be explained by variation in the corresponding non-motor vehicle accident mortality rates and that 69.4% and 66.3% of the variation in infant homicide rates, in boys and girls respectively, was explained by variation in the corresponding non-motor vehicle accident mortality rates. These findings are consistent with the thesis that changing propensities in the classification of young child and infant deaths as either homicides or non-motor vehicle accident deaths, rather than actual changes in societal violence, may explain a substantial proportion of the reported increases in homicide rates in young children and infants. Moreover, the observation that increases in homicide rates in young children and infants were separated in time by nearly 16 years further supports this thesis.

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Child homicide in New South Wales from 1991 to 2005

Cited by 75 publications

References 9 publications

Child Homicides in Sweden

Child Homicides in Sweden

The Placement of Children Following Non‐Accidental Head Injuries: Are They Protected From Further Harm?

The Dependence of Reported Homicide Rates on Reported Non-Motor Vehicle Accident Death Rates in US Young Children and Infants, 1940-2007

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