When Parents Kill Children

Thea Brown is Professor (Emerita) in the Department of Social Work, Monash University, Victoria, Australia, and is co-director of the Monash-Deakin Filicide Research Hub. Danielle Tyson is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia, and is co-director of the Monash-Deakin Filicide Research Hub. Paula Fernandez Arias is an associate researcher with the Monash-Deakin Filicide Research Hub.

• Part I: Incidence.- 1. Canadian Trends in Filicide by Gender of the Accused, 1961–2011; Myrna Dawson.-  2. The Incidence of Filicide in Chile, a Study of the Years 2010 to 2012; Roberto M. Rodríguez and Paula Fernandez Arias.- 3. Developing an Understanding of Filicide in South Africa; Shanaaz Mathews and Naeemah Abrahams.- 4. Filicide in Japn ; Katsuhiro Yasumi.-  Part II: Explaining Filicide.-  5. When Men Murder Children; Russell Dobash and Rebecca Dobash.- 6. A New Paradigm on Family Assailants; Colin Pritchard, Richard Williams and Paula Fernandez Arias.- 7. Familicide-Suicide; Carolyn Johnson and Mark Sachmann.-  8. Explaining Filicide in Australia; Thea Brown, Danielle Tyson and Paula Fernandez Arias.- 9. Filicide and Children with Special Healthcare Needs in Arizona; Shannon Rupp.-  Part III: Intervention and Prevention.-  10. Protecting Children Living with Domestic Violence; Randal David and Peter Jaffe.- 11. What Can Professionals and Families Do? Missed Opportunities toProtect ; Jo Cavanagh.-  12. Preventing Filicide through Reform to the Mental Health Act (2001); Una Butler.-  13. Raising the Status of Families, Friends and Community Members in Reviewing Domestic Homicides; Frank Mullane.