Factors associated with weapon use in maternal filicide.

摘要: The objective of this study was to identify factors associated with weapon use in a group filicidal women. Clinical data were gathered from the charts sixty women evaluated at Michigan's Center for Forensic Psychiatry or through Connecticut's Psychiatric Security Review Board 1970 1996. Factors determined using chi squares, ANCOVAS, and logistic regression. Results compared national statistics child homicide Department Justice Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). Weapon defined as knife gun study. Weapons used by one four our Guns 13% knives 12%. Odds ratio showed that psychotic eleven times more likely kill their than non-psychotic counterparts (11.2; p = .008). Psychosis present every mother who killed her seven eight children gun. Younger less be weapons (ANCOVA; F 8.28; .006). This finding independent presence absence maternal psychosis. These results show are weapons. They also mothers older younger children.