TY  - SER
AU  - Logan, Joseph E. 
AU  - Walsh, Sabrina
AU  - Patel, Nimeshkumar
AU  - Hall, Jeffrey E.
TI  - Homicide-followed-by-suicide incidents involving child victims
PY  - 2013///
KW  - CHILD HOMICIDE
KW  - CHILDREN
KW  - DATA ANALYSIS
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - FILICIDE
KW  - HOMICIDE
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - JUSTICE
KW  - MEN
KW  - MENTAL HEALTH
KW  - PERPETRATORS
KW  - PREVENTION
KW  - SEPARATION
KW  - SUICIDE
KW  - WOMEN
KW  - UNITED STATES
N1  - American Journal of Health Behavior, 2013, 37(4): 531-542
N2  - Objectives: To describe homicide-followed-by-suicide incidents involving child victims

Methods: Using 2003–2009 National Violent Death Reporting System data, we characterized 129 incidents based on victim and perpetrator demographic information, their relationships, the weapons/mechanisms involved, and the perpetrators’ health and stress-related circumstances.

Results: These incidents accounted for 188 child deaths; 69% were under 11 years old, and 58% were killed with a firearm. Approximately 76% of perpetrators were males, and 75% were parents/caregivers. Eighty-one percent of incidents with paternal perpetrators and 59% with maternal perpetrators were preceded by parental discord. Fifty-two percent of incidents with maternal perpetrators were associated with maternal psychiatric problems.

Conclusions: Strategies that resolve parental conflicts rationally and facilitate detection and treatment of parental mental conditions might help prevention efforts. (Authors' abstract). Record #6545
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4699178/pdf/nihms745423.pdf
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.5993/AJHB.37.4.11
ER  -