Intra-familial child homicide in Finland 1970–1994: incidence, causes of death and demographic characteristics

Vanamo, Tuija; Kauppi, Anne; Karkola, Kari; Merikanto, Juhani; Räsänen, Eila

doi:10.1016/s0379-0738(00)00408-4

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“…As in other European studies, female perpetrators were more prevalent than male perpetrators (Marks and Kumar, 1996;Silverman and Kennedy, 1988;Vanamo et al, 2001). The fi nding that these women were younger than the men, and had a younger victim than male perpetrators could be attributable to inclusion of neonaticides in the study, perpetrators of neonaticide typically being young women.…”

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Filicide: A comparative study of maternal versus paternal child homicide

Liem

Koenraadt

2008

Criminal Behav Ment Health

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Filicide: A comparative study of maternal versus paternal child homicide

Liem

Koenraadt

2008

Criminal Behav Ment Health

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“…It was unusual for mothers to beat their children to death (5.9%). Drowning and suffocation were also presented as the most frequent causes of death in maternal filicide (43%) in a study by Vanamo, Kauppi, Karkola, Merikanto, and Räsänen (2001). Krischer, Stone, Sevecke, and Steinmeyer (2007) suggested that neonaticide was most often committed by suffocation, while filicide was strongly associated with shooting and stabbing.…”

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“…Most common methods of filicide included the use of firearm (34%) and battery (22%). Vanamo et al (2001), on the other hand, reported head injuries as the most frequent cause of death among paternal filicide victims.…”

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Victim, perpetrator, and offense characteristics in filicide and filicide–suicide

Debowska

Boduszek

Dhingra

2015

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of most recent studies of parental and stepparental filicide. A detailed review of the literature revealed the importance of certain demographic, environmental, and psychosocial factors in the commission of child homicide.Our findings indicate that filicides perpetrated by genetic parents and stepparents differ considerably in terms of underlying motivational factors. Data in the literature suggest that biological parents are more likely to choose methods of killing which produce quick and painless death, whereas stepparents frequently kill their wards by beating. Research results demonstrate the victims of maternal filicides to be significantly younger than the victims of paternal filicides. Additionally, filicide-suicide is most often associated with parental psychopathology. Genetic fathers are at the greatest risk of death by suicide after the commission of familicide. These findings are discussed in relation to theoretical frameworks explaining the occurrence of child murder. Further, limitations of reviewed studies and directions for future research are presented.

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“…Head injuries, drowning, and suffocation are the most frequent causes of death due to homicide in young children (Reece & Sege, 2000;Tung et al, 2006;Vanamo et al, 2001). Investigators have suggested that the actual magnitude of fatal child abuse has been underestimated (Crume et al, 2002;Herman-Giddens et al, 1999).…”

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Young Child Homicide and Accidental Death Rates in the United States, 1940-2005: Classification Issues in Mutually Exclusive Events

Riggs¹,

Hobbs²

2012

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Events that are mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive, and have a constant sum must be negatively correlated. This study examined whether non-motor vehicle accidental deaths and homicides in young US children displayed a period of time when this rule governing mutually exclusive events was applicable. Homicide and non-motor vehicle accident mortality rates in boys and girls, aged 1 to 4 years old, in the United States from 1940 to 2005 were analyzed. Homicide mortality rates increased sharply in young boys when the accident mortality rate dropped to about 25/100,000; and in young girls, when the accident mortality dropped to about 18/100,000. This increase in child homicide mortality rates corresponded to a time period when the sum of homicide rates and non-motor vehicle accident rates in these children were relatively constant, making these rates of unnatural deaths mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive, and having a nearly constant sum. Homicide rates in young US children were relatively stable both before and after this critical constant sum time period. These findings suggest that the increase in homicide rates in young US children appear to have reflected the necessary negative correlation between mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive, and constant sum events, rather than an actual increase in societal violence directed against young children.

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Intra-familial child homicide in Finland 1970–1994: incidence, causes of death and demographic characteristics

Cited by 85 publications

References 17 publications

Filicide: A comparative study of maternal versus paternal child homicide

Filicide: A comparative study of maternal versus paternal child homicide

Victim, perpetrator, and offense characteristics in filicide and filicide–suicide

Young Child Homicide and Accidental Death Rates in the United States, 1940-2005: Classification Issues in Mutually Exclusive Events

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