Maternal and paternal filicides: A retrospective review of filicides in Finland

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-238

  Kauppi, Anne ^a   Kumpulainen, Kirsti ^a   Karkola, Kari ^a   Vanamo, Tuija ^a   Merikanto, Juhani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EXPERT WITNESS; FATHER; FEMALE; FINLAND; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTICIDE; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTHER; MOTIVATION; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

ADULT; ALTRUISM; BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FATHERS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANTICIDE; INSANITY DEFENSE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOTHERS; MOTIVATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUICIDE;

EID: 77955889825     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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