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British Journal of Social Work 2005 35(5):667-688; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bch202
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.

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Men Who Murder Children Inside and Outside the Family

Kate Cavanagh

Senior lecturer in social work at the University of Stirling

R. Emerson Dobash

Professor of Social Research in the School of Law at the University of Manchester

R. P. Dobash

Professor of Criminology in the School of Law at the University of Manchester

Correspondence to Dr Kate Cavanagh, Social Work, Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA. E-mail: kate.cavanagh{at}stir.ac.uk

The focus of this paper is on men who murder children. The data are drawn from a larger study of Murder in Britain,1 which examined all types of murder and included data from a total sample of 866 case files of both men and women convicted of murder and serving a life sentence in England or Scotland. This analysis is based on a subset of ninety cases of men convicted of the murder of a child. Two types of child murder are compared: men who kill children within the family (FM, n = 49) and men who murder children outside the family context (NFM, n = 41). The two types of murder are compared in terms of the childhood and family backgrounds of the perpetrator, the circumstances at the time of the murder and elements of the murder event itself. The main findings reveal many significant differences between the two groups of perpetrators, indicating a need for more nuanced policy and practice responses to the murder of children.

Keywords: men who kill children, child homicide, child murder, child abuse


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