Child homicide: Contemporary data

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Child homicide: Contemporary data

Journal Title: Αρχεία Ελληνικής Ιατρικής - Year 2003, Vol 20, Issue 5

Abstract

This paper reviews epidemiological and psychopathological data concerning people who have committed child homicide, with a view to identifying the risk factors for child abuse and homicide, such as familial stressful conditions and violence. The relationship of child homicide with abuse/neglect, and the perpetrator’s mental status are also reviewed, especially in the cases when parents are the perpetrators. Psychiatric parental history, socio-economic factors (such as unmarried, poorly educated, young mothers, especially adolescents, with low income, without a supportive environment and with a violent husband or partner), difficult temperament of the infant and the problems of mother-child attachment, are the main factors put infants at high risk for abuse. The development of specific abuse and infanticide prevention strategies, through a multidisciplinary scientific collaboration, are proposed which could lead to the amelioration of stressful conditions in families at high risk for child abuse.

Authors and Affiliations

I. SAVVIDOU, V. BOZIKAS

Keywords

Child homicide

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