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Who kills children? re-examining the evidence
- Authors:
- PRITCHARD Colin, DAVEY Jill, WILLIAMS Richard
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 43(7), 2013, pp.1403-1438.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Violent children's deaths have become a surrogate indicator of effective child protection but can those who kill children be better identified? A decade-long study of child homicide assailants (population of 2.5 million) is re-examined in the context of nineteen Western nations' child mortality rates and child-abuse-related deaths, correlated with four international measures of relative poverty, focusing on income inequality. Child mortality rates of the nineteen countries were ranked and correlated with levels of poverty. Child mortality and poverty strongly correlated but, unexpectedly, child-abuse-related deaths did not. Child homicide assailants are extremely rare, but three distinct within-family assailant categories can be identified: mentally ill parents, mothers with a child on the Child Protection Register and men with previous convictions for violence. Mentally ill parents were the most frequent assailants, but violent men killed over five times the rate of mentally ill parents. The juxtaposed results indicate that the assailants' problems are essentially psycho-criminological, especially violence, rather than socio-economic, although poverty worsens most situations. Despite the dangers of ‘false positives’, children's services need to give greater weighting to the child protection–psychiatric–violence interface to assist front line staff in improving risk assessment and contribute to reducing the impact that parental mental illness can have on the child. (Publisher abstract)
A qualitative study of filicide by mentally ill mothers
- Authors:
- STANTON Josephine, SIMPSON Alexander, WOULDES Trecia
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 24(11), November 2000, pp.1451-1460.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
The objective of this study was to examine descriptions of maternal filicide committed in the context of major mental illness from the frame of reference of a group of perpetrators. Six women were identified, and interviewed. They described intense investment in mothering their child(ren). Descriptions of external stressors were not extreme, but the experience of illness was described as extremely stressful. They described little or no warning or planning. Their descriptions of their children were unremarkable. Motivation was described as altruistic or as an extension of suicide. They described regretting the killings and feeling responsible even though they knew they had been ill at the time. The findings underline the difficulty of identification of risk and prevention of maternally ill filicide in the women who described being very caring towards their children, and little or no warning of filicidal urges. They may be better understood in terms of the illness than the individual stress or psychodynamics.
A survey of 'violent women'
- Authors:
- HUCKLE P.L., THOMAS A.
- Journal article citation:
- Prison Service Journal, 115, January 1998, pp.2-4.
- Publisher:
- Her Majesty's Prison Service of England and Wales
A survey of women who were charged with offences of violence against the person and who were referred to a tertiary NHS Forensic Psychiatric service for assessment over a six year period is described. The violent offences included murder, manslaughter and wounding. Psychiatric illness was often one of the many factors leading to the commissioning of the violent behaviour and crime.
Munchausen Syndrome by proxy and perversion of the maternal instinct
- Author:
- POLLEDRI Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 7(3), December 1996, pp.551-562.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
Describes how the key to understanding full-blown Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) is in the recognition that unconscious processes are operating. Early childhood trauma, passively experienced by the mother whose own mother displayed perverse and perverting attitudes towards her, mobilizes a perversion of the maternal instinct in adulthood when she herself become a mother or is in the role of nurse or carer, occupying a maternal role.
Scare in the community: Britain in a moral panic
- Editor:
- NEATE Polly
- Publisher:
- Community Care
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 44p.,diags.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Sutton
5 essays by experts in the fields of youth crime, drugs, lone parenting, child abuse, and mental illness and violence, all looking at the effects of moral panic on policy making.
A clinical sample of women who have sexually abused children
- Author:
- FALLER Kathleen Coulborn
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 4(3), 1995, pp.13-30.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Describes a study of a clinical sample of 72 women who allegedly sexually abused 332 children. The sample was examined from a number of different perspectives including whether the abuse was intrafamilial, extrafamilial, or both; and whether the abuse involved multiple or solo intrafamilial or extrafamilial offenders. Social situation factors and individual deficits that might lead women to sexually abuse children are examined. Case outcomes, including the number of confessions, criminal prosecution, and protection of victims are described.
Early trauma and subsequent antisocial behaviour in adults
- Authors:
- ARMSTRONG Greg J., KELLEY Susan D. M.
- Journal article citation:
- Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 8(4), November 2008, pp.294-303.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This study describes the prevalence of childhood trauma and maltreatment antecedents among 111 criminal offenders referred for forensic and mental health counselling. Sixty-nine percent reported such antecedents. Seventy percent had Axis 1 mental health disorders including anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and substance-related disorders. Many were comorbid. The implications of developmental psychopathology arising from childhood trauma and maltreatment for counsellors who treat forensic clients are addressed.
European child homicide studies: quantitative studies and a preliminary report on a complementary qualitative research approach
- Author:
- STROUD Julia
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 7(3), 2000, pp.31-37.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
In the past, societies have tolerated and accepted child homicide as a way of variously managing and controlling family size, illegitimacy and disability and of limiting the number of female children surviving. Reviews child homicide studies which reveals that in Europe there are a number of common themes in relation to the phenomenon of child homicide.
Is social work effective: research findings from the Social Work Research Centre, University of Stirling
- Author:
- UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING. Social Work Research Centre
- Publisher:
- University of Stirling. Social Work Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 86p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
Brings together research done at the centre over the last 8 years into the effectiveness of social work. This was centred around 4 themes: the effectiveness of community care; social work and criminal justice; the effectiveness of different organisational contexts in social work; and prevention.