Filicide: A comparative study of maternal versus paternal child homicide

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 166-176

  Liem, Marieke ^a   Koenraadt, Frans ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Pieter Baan Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; FILIXIC ACID; HUMAN; INFANTICIDE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NETHERLANDS; OFFENDER; PATERNAL ATTITUDE; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL STATUS; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CRIMINOLOGY; FATHER; HOMICIDE; INFANT; MOTHER; MOTIVATION; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; FATHERS; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METHODS; MOTHERS; MOTIVATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 50949110066     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.695     Document Type: Article

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