Deck 6: Infanticide and Child Murder

Question 1

The murder of children has been declining over the past 2 centuries, still data indicate that worldwide, how many homicide victims are under 20 years of age?

A) 5%
B) 3 in ten
C) 32%
D) One in five

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Young Ashley killed her newborn baby within an hour after secretly giving birth to him. Which term best describes this type of murder?

A) Infanticide
B) Neonaticide
C) Matricide
D) Manslaughter

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The killing of her newborn son by Young Ashley could also be referred to as this which is the killing of one's offspring.

A) Matricide
B) Familicide
C) Uxoricide
D) Filicide

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Strangulation and this are the most common methods of killing a baby with the first 24 hours of life.

A) Drowning
B) Suffocation
C) Poison
D) Stabbing

Question 5

The risk for homicide is greater for a child in his or her first year of life than in any other year of life before age 17. Paulozzi and Sells determined that the homicide rate for the first day of life was how many times greater than the rate during any other time of life?

A) Twice
B) Three times
C) Five times
D) Ten times

Question 6

Children under the age of five are most likely to be killed by:

A) Their parents
B) Pedophiles
C) Their nannies or babysitters
D) Their mother's boyfriends

Question 7

Which of the following is not discussed in the text as a difference between suicides committed by fathers and mothers?

A) Women tend to kill their children because they fear no one will take care of them after the mother is dead.
B) The father tends to kill their children in the context of custody disagreements with the mother.
C) Men are more likely to use firearms to kill their children then themselves while women favor drowning their children then they shoot themselves.
D) Men who commit filicide-suicides are more likely than women to kill their spouses.

Question 8

Children under the age of four are most likely killed with which type of weapon?

A) Personal weapons
B) Guns
C) Poison
D) Exposure/Neglect

Question 9

When considering child homicide in terms of race, 2017 data indicate that

A) More African American children under the age of 12 years were killed than children in other race groups
B) Over half of the 13 to 19 year old homicide victims were African American.
C) The rate of homicide was higher for white children than for Hispanic children.
D) Family members were suspected or convicted of killing over half of all child homicides among every race group.

Question 10

When an 8-year old only child has suffered several illnesses before finally dying of an unexplainable illness, what might a doctor or a homicide detective suspect?

A) Postpartum depression by proxy
B) Postpartum psychosis
C) Factitious disorder imposed on another
D) Nothing