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Direct linkCamperio Ciani, Andrea S.; Fontanesi, Lilybeth – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
Objectives: This research aimed to identify incidents of mothers in Italy killing their own children and to test an adaptive evolutionary hypothesis to explain their occurrence. Methods: 110 cases of mothers killing 123 of their own offspring from 1976 to 2010 were analyzed. Each case was classified using 13 dichotomic variables. Descriptive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Crime, Death, Foreign Countries
