Filicide, the killing of a child by their parent or caregiver, is estimated to account for 18 to 25% of family homicide cases in Australia. Filicide often involves multiple victims and has a ...

Filicide is the killing of a child by a parent. To protect potential homicide victims, it is necessary to examine and identify intrapsychic and interpersonal dynamics that result in filicide. The ...

People who commit filicide, the killing of their own child, are no more psychotically disordered than other homicide offenders. New research shows that that prevention of filicide cannot remain the ...

In 2024, Hope Hooton's husband killed himself after murdering their two kids. Since then Hope has turned her grief into advocacy fighting against filicide.

A child safety advocate is weighing in after a Phoenix mother shot and killed her two young children, before turning the gun ...

The bliss will descend upon us as we stop promoting or accepting the practice of filicide, that is, the murder, humiliation, mutilation, denigration, abuse and abandonment of children by parents and ...

It's like evil itself tugged on the bare threads of humanity, unraveling the hopefulness that binds us, the idealism that pushes us forward. This inscrutable, gut-wrenching crime is called filicide, ...

Editor’s Note: This was a hard article to read, much less edit. Unfortunately, it’s a reality that we, as law enforcement professionals, have to deal with. We have to see it; respond to it; ...

Bourget & Bradford (1990) suggested a system of classification encompassing various types of clinical situations. The five major categories, extracted from the existing literature in combination with ...

Filicide, the killing of a child by their parent or caregiver, is estimated to account for 18 to 25% of family homicide cases in Australia. Filicide often involves multiple victims and has a ...