Demographics: parent sex, age of parent, marital status,
employment, race |
Legal history: history of charges, history of prison, juvenile legal
history |
Substance history: alcohol history, drug history, alcohol use prior to
offense, drug use prior to offense, intoxication during act |
Offense characteristics: total children, children in filicide, child age,
child sex, description of motive, description of filicide act, other
victims, accomplice, method, previous attempts at filicide, length
of consideration of filicide |
Illness characteristics: history of mental illness, diagnosis, age at
diagnosis/symptom onset, age at first hospitalization, length of
mental illness treatment, history of psychiatric admissions, last
contact with psychiatry/mental health services, history of suicide
attempts and method, auditory hallucinations, command
hallucinations, visual hallucinations, delusions and quality,
depression, mania |
Family characteristics: domestic violence, abuse of children |
Offender developmental/psychosocial characteristics: social support,
childcare, biological father involvement/stepfather, involvement of
child protective services, source of income, custody dispute,
school problems |
Offender medical history: history of postpartum depression or
psychosis, postpartum or pregnant state, medical problems |