Men who kill their own children: Paternal filicide incidents in contemporary Fiji

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 557-568

  Adinkrah, Mensah ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child abuse; Child murder; Fiji; Filicide; Homicide

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FATHER; FEMALE; FIJI; HOME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANTICIDE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; OFFENDER; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; POLICE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS; VICTIM;

EID: 0037408088     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2134(03)00041-3     Document Type: Article

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