Child homicide, psychiatric disorder and dangerousness: a review and an empirical approach

An Abominable Crime: Filicide in the Context of Parental Separation and Divorce

“…Valuable new thinking on understanding filicide has been developed using a psycho-social research framework that combines a quantitative analysis of data of incidence and characteristics of perpetrators with a qualitative analysis of the precursors or psycho-social antecedents to the events in relation to the perpetrator and their families (Stroud, 2008;Stroud & Pritchard, 2001). This work used data from individuals who had been charged with filicide and where a forensic psychological assessment had been carried out.…”

“…Being concerned with all family violence deaths it did not identify filicide in the context of parental separation and divorce as a group of victims sufficiently large to be worthy of attention, and so revealed little about it. It did make one important comment saying that, when children had been killed by a parent in the context of parental separation and divorce, the perpetrator gave warnings of the act through threats of violence to the victim, to the partner and to the perpetrator themself (Martin & Pritchard, 2010), a finding that one of the authors had made in previous research (Stroud & Pritchard, 2001). Otherwise, it subsumed children killed by a parent in the context of separation and divorce within all children killed by a family member and frequently within all murdered family members.…”

Filicídio: Incidência e factores associados

“…Entre 1980 e 1989 verifica-se que 2/3 dos homicídios de crianças são casos de filicídio (Marleau, Poulin, Roy, Laporte, & Webanck, 1999 (Stroud & Pritchard, 2001). Estes valores resultam numa taxa anual de homicídio de 0.5 por 100.000 crianças, o que corresponde a uma criança morta por ano (Stroud & Pritchard, 2001).…”

“…Entre 1980 e 1989 verifica-se que 2/3 dos homicídios de crianças são casos de filicídio (Marleau, Poulin, Roy, Laporte, & Webanck, 1999 (Stroud & Pritchard, 2001). Estes valores resultam numa taxa anual de homicídio de 0.5 por 100.000 crianças, o que corresponde a uma criança morta por ano (Stroud & Pritchard, 2001). Para além disso, os dados da Dinamarca indicam que, entre 1946 e 1960, 49% dos homicídios tiveram crianças como vítimas, sendo que 32% eram recém-nascidos (Harder, 1967).…”

Social Work with Children when Parents have Mental Health Difficulties: Acknowledging Vulnerability and Maintaining the “Rights of the Child”

“…The United Kingdom has the lowest rate of child homicide in the western world (Stroud & Pritchard, 2001) and there has been little annual change regarding the incidence of violence by those experiencing mental health difficulties (Appleby et al, 1999). But these are not grounds for complacency.…”