The declining number of child homicides in Finland, 1960-2009

Homicide Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-22

  Lehti, Martti ^a   Kääriäinen, Juha ^b   Kivivuori, Janne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Poliisiammattikorkeakoulu   (Finland)

Author keywords

child homicides; filicide suicides; filicides; Finland; historical homicide trends; infanticides

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856147092     PISSN: 10887679     EISSN: 15526720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088767911428960     Document Type: Article

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