Review of Female Offenders and Filicide

These flashcards cover key vocabulary and concepts related to female offenders and filicide, highlighting definitions and significant theories from the lecture on female violence.

Infanticide

A homicide against a child within the child’s first year of life.

Neonaticide

A homicide against a child within the child’s first 24 hours of life.

Filicide

A homicide against a child by a parent (paternal = father; maternal = mother).

Ambivalent Sexism

A concept that includes hostile sexism, which involves negative feelings towards women who violate gender norms, and benevolent sexism, which involves positive feelings towards women who conform.

Chivalry Hypothesis

The theory that females receive more lenient sentences than males in the criminal justice system.

Altruistic Filicide

When a parent believes the death of the child is in the child's best interest, often in a psychotic or suicidal context.

Accidental Filicide

The parent unintentionally kills the child as a result of abuse.

Spousal Revenge Filicide

The killing of a child by a parent to punish a partner, often due to infidelity or abandonment.

Postpartum Depression

A condition affecting 7-19% of women after childbirth, characterized by significant depressive symptoms.

Scott et al.'s 5-point Classification System

A classification system for motives of filicide including unwanted children, mercy killings, aggression due to pathology, and other stimuli.