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1
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Are there gender differences in filicide ?

A

Yes,

  1. Women are significantly more likely to have been mentally ill at the time of the offense
  2. More women commit filicide and are also younger than men
  3. Filicidal fathers are more violent when committing it
  4. Filicidal fathers usually do it as a result of parenting stress, depression, heavy alcohol and drug use
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There is an overrepresentation of mental illness in filicide.

Name the 2 most common MD diagnoses.

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  1. Affective disorders
  2. Personality disorders

–> NOT psychosis

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Familicide

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Refers to the killing of the whole family

–> children + spouse

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What are the most prominent factors that filicide perpetrators had in common?

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  1. Most had no prior psychiatric history thus no mental illness
  2. 1/4 of maternal perpetrators were teenagers at the victims birth
  3. Stepfathers are more likely to kill preschool children and infants
  4. 80% of these perpetrators were biological parents
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Neonaticide

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Refers to the killing of an infant in the first 24h of life

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Neonaticide is committed the most by … ?

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… Primarily young, unmarried women, free of major psychiatric disorders, who had unwanted pregnancies.

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How can neonaticide be prevented ?

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1. Sex education

2. Access to contraception

3. Safe environment to discuss sexual issues

–> these could decrease unwanted pregnancies and in turn neonaticide

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Safe haven law

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Refer to laws in the US that decriminalize the leaving of unharmed infants with statutorily designated private persons so that the child becomes a ward of the state

e.g.: hospitals, police stations etc

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Do all women who commit neonaticide fit the pattern of - unmarried - single - teenager mother?

Or are there also other factors that might lead to neonaticide ?

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There is also a high incidence of pregnancy

1. denial

2. concealment

3. lack of prenatal care

–> accused report amnesia surrounding the murder

e.g. malinger or sometimes dissociative experience

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Short-term effects/consequences of child abuse?

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  1. PTSD
  2. Anxiety/fear
  3. Intrusive thought
  4. Low self esteem
  5. Sleep disorders
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Long term effects/consequences of child abuse?

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  1. Impaired sexual functioning
  2. Low self esteem
  3. Vulnerability to repeated victimization
  4. Depression
  5. Guilt/self-blame
  6. Substance abuse
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Even after identifying the filicide attempts, abused children do provide only very little information with respect to the incident.

Think of reasons for which this may be.

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  1. Because they couldn’t differentiate the filicide attempt from others, as they have already suffered multiple
  2. They may have suffered from high levels of stress during the encoding, storage and retrieval phases
  3. Afraid of the consequences, what will happen to their families, including the perpetrators
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What is the difference between infanticide and filicide ?

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Infanticide is the killing of a child younger than 12 months

–> filicide is the killing of just a child

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Altruistic filicide

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Is committed with the motive of relieving the child of real or most often imaginary suffering

–> usually involves a suicide attempt by the parent

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What are the most common/dominant motives for maternal filicide?

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1. Altruistic

–> misguided love

2. Acutely psychotic

3. Social stigmas, thus shame

4. Fear of rejection/abandonment by significant others

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How does the finish government prevent filicide from happening ?

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Their children psychiatric departments and public health services have developed psychiatric units for children younger than 3 years and their parents

–> provide support for early interaction + offer rapid interventions for families in distress

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In Europe, there are 2 primary preventive strategies for neonaticide + child abandonment.

Name them.

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1. Anonymous delivery law

2. Baby hatches

–> similar to the US safe haven law

18
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Anonymous delivery law

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Allows women to give birth in a hospital free of charge if she gives her child for adoption

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Baby hatches

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Refer to easily accessible incubators situated outside hospitals in europe

–> the incubator signals the staff on call when a baby is placed inside

20
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Resnicks 5-category classification

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Suggest 5 categories of reasons for which filicidal parents commit murder

  1. Altruistic
  2. Psychotic
  3. Accidental
  4. Spousal revenge
  5. Unwanted child
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Do filicidal mothers with a history of psychosis at the time of the filicide differ significantly from those without psychosis ?

A

Yes they do,

On a number of demographic and historical variables

22
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A new classification of filicide takes into consideration all relevant variables over the - social/ environmental/ criminal/ gender domains

Its classification comprises 5 subgroups.

Name them.

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  1. Homocidal-suicidal fathers
  2. Violent impulsive parents
  3. Single, sober parents
  4. Prosocial, psychotic parents
  5. Infanticidal mothers
23
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Homocidal-suicidal fathers

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Form a subgroup of working men who are married but at high risk of separation form their wives

–> suicidal tendencies

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Violent impulsive parents

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Has the highest incidence of previous family violence + battering as the method of operation

–> contains more fathers than mothers

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Single, sober parents

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Offenders were mostly

  1. not intoxicated at the time of the crime
  2. least impulsive by nature
  3. not murderers to their children
  4. parents who really wanted their children

–> has the most members, didn’t kill but were abusive enough to alert authorities

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Prosocial psychotic parents

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Have the highest psychotic motivation for the filicide

–> most mothers, married, unemployed, educated

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Infanticidal mothers

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Mothers were young, infant unwanted, the deed not impulsive and no psychotic motivation

–> the victims in these cases were infants

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Dark number of a crime

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Refers to the difference between the real and the recorded criminality rate

–> there are no reliable estimates of the dark number of neonaticide

29
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Why are the first 30 days after birth so critical to a woman ?

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Because, a woman ist almost 30x more likely to get a psychosis during this time

30
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Who will be more likely to suffer from a postpartum depression ?

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Women who already have a history with mood disorders

–> they will have obsessional thoughts that are violent and aggressive

31
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What causes post partum depression?

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Unclear where it comes from

–> if fathers can also get it it may be not only hormonal

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