McKee Amy, Egan Vincent
Edenfield Centre, Prestwich Hospital, Bury New Rd, Manchester M25 3BL, UK.
Child Abuse Negl. 2013 Oct;37(10):753-61. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2013.02.008. Epub 2013 Mar 29.
This study reports a case-series study of 21 women from the United Kingdom convicted of the murder or manslaughter of their child (maternal filicide: MF). These cases were reviewed using data provided from police forces and from publicly available resources.
Content and thematic analysis and multidimensional scaling techniques were used to analyse the relationships between the variables present in the commission of the crimes.
Mothers who killed their children could be categorised as emotionally driven and in despair at their situation, or rejecting their children due to perceiving them as a threat. Mothers who killed their babies (neonaticides) appeared to form two distinct subgroups: reluctant and detached neonaticidal offenders.
These findings offer an insight into the factors that may be of relevance in understanding how a mother may come to commit MF, and are interpreted in terms of disturbed attachment processes.
本研究报告了一项针对21名来自英国的妇女的病例系列研究，这些妇女被判谋杀或误杀自己的孩子（母亲杀婴：MF）。使用从警方和公开可用资源提供的数据对这些案例进行了审查。
采用内容和主题分析以及多维尺度分析技术来分析犯罪行为中存在的变量之间的关系。
杀害自己孩子的母亲可分为两类：一类是受情绪驱动且对自身处境绝望的，另一类是因将孩子视为威胁而拒绝孩子的。杀害婴儿的母亲（杀新生儿者）似乎形成了两个不同的亚组：不情愿的和冷漠的杀新生儿犯罪者。
这些发现为理解母亲可能实施MF的相关因素提供了见解，并从依恋过程紊乱的角度进行了解释。
