Children who kill

Latency-age children who threaten or attempt to kill themselves.

Filicide: Mental Illness in Those Who Kill Their Children

BACKGROUND Most child victims of homicide are killed by a parent or step-parent. This large population study provides a contemporary and detailed description of filicide perpetrators. We examined the relationship between filicide and mental illness at the time of the offence, and care received from mental health services in the past. METHOD All filicide and filicide-suicide cases in England a...

Who Shalt Not Kill ? Individual

Recent findings suggest that exerting executive control influences responses to moral dilemmas. In our study, subjects judged how morally appropriate it would be for them to kill one person to save others. They made these judgments in 24 dilemmas that systematically varied physical directness of killing, personal risk to the subject, inevitability of the death, and intentionality of the action....

Proceedings: Adolescents who kill parents--reactive parricide.

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

OBJECTIVE Filicide, or parental murder of offspring, constitutes a major portion of lethal violence perpetrated against children worldwide. Despite the global nature of the phenomenon, researchers have focused their studies on the developed industrialized societies with the consequent neglect of small, developing societies. Second, there is a paucity of empirical data on child homicide committe...