When Parents Kill Children

Part I. Incidence

1. Canadian Trends in Filicide by Gender of the Accused, 1961–2011
Myrna Dawson

2. The Incidence of Filicide in Chile: A Study of the Years 2010–2012
Roberto Rodríguez Manríquez, Paula Fernandez Arias

3. Developing an Understanding of Filicide in South Africa
Shanaaz Mathews, Naeemah Abrahams

4. Filicide in Japan
Katsuhiro Yasumi

Part II. Explaining Filicide

5. When Men Murder Children
Russell P. Dobash, Rebecca E. Dobash

6. A New Paradigm on Parents Who Kill: ‘The Mental Health Syndrome Paradigm’
Colin Pritchard, Richard Williams, Paula Fernandez Arias

7. Familicide-Suicide
Carolyn Harris Johnson, Mark Sachmann

8. Filicide in Australia
Thea Brown, Danielle Tyson, Paula Fernandez Arias

9. Filicide and Children with Special Health Care Needs in Arizona
Shannon Rupp

Part III. Intervention and Prevention

10. Protecting Children Living with Domestic Violence: Risk of Homicide in the Context of Immigration
Randal David, Peter Jaffe

11. What Can Professionals and Families Do? Missed Opportunities to Protect—Sharing Knowledge to Inform Practice Change for Identifying Risks and Enabling Safety
Jo Cavanagh

12. Preventing Filicide Through Reform to the Mental Health Act (2001): The Republic of Ireland
Una Butler

13. Raising the Status of Families, Friends and Community Members in Reviewing Domestic Homicides
Frank Mullane

Nyckelord: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Violence and Crime, Criminological Theory, Crime Prevention, Biosocial Criminology