Abstract
The homicide of children by their parents has been reported across numerous cultural settings around the world and in many historical periods. A comprehensive and systematic understanding of parental child killing can be optimally obtained through a biopsychosociocultural approach. In this article we present the case of a woman who committed neonaticide. We illustrate the cultural formulation of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) and recommend that this formulation has a central role in the evaluation of cultural factors of parents who kill their children.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1112-1118 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of Forensic Sciences |
Volume | 43 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 1998 |
Keywords
- Biopsychosociocultural model
- Cultural formulation
- Filicide
- Forensic psychiatry
- Forensic science
- Homicide
- Infanticide
- Neonaticide
- Violence
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine
- Genetics