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Child homicide psychiatric disorder and dangerousness: a review and an empirical approach
- Authors:
- STROUD Julia, PRITCHARD Colin
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 31(2), April 2001, pp.249-269.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Recently there has been increased professional recognition of the association between adult psychiatric disorder and childcare, although the association with child homicide continues to be overlooked. By reviewing the psychiatric child homicide studies and analysing of a decade of child murder in two English counties, the authors propose how dangerousness, psychiatric disorder and child homicide may be conceptualised. Whilst the vast majority of psychiatrically disturbed people pose no threat to their children, the psychiatrically disordered are over-represented in unselected child homicide case samples, women account for almost half the assailants and assaults are predominately an intra-familial phenomenon. Extra-familial assaults are associated with a sexual motive.