Thea Brown, Professor Emeritus at Monash University, examines the development of research aimed at understanding filicide ...

TV9 spoke to a forensic psychiatrist about filicide—when a parent kills a child—after a Marion father not only admitted to killing his five-year-old son, but told police he had been thinking of doing ...

More than a quarter of those children will be Indigenous. It's the first time national figures for filicide have been available in the context of family violence, and Australia's National Research ...

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.

Experts from The University of Manchester have revealed their findings from the most in-depth study ever to take place in the UK into the tragic instances of child killing by parents, known as ...

Filicide - when a parent intentionally kills their child - is the second most common form of domestic homicide in Australia The night comes back in fragments: the sound of exploding glass ...

There are up to 25 cases of filicide every year in Australia and while the cases can trigger outrage at the time, attention on the issue doesn't always last. That's why researchers in crime and ...

Filicide or the deliberate act of parents or parental figures killing their children is a tragic crime that experts say has not been adequately studied or addressed in Australia. Despite a fall in ...

Filicide classification systems, beginning with Resnick (1969), are reminiscent of Gibson and Klein's (1961) categorization of homicide by motive which is divided into four groups including mercy ...