ADDRESSING FILICIDE 3rd International Conference, Building Bridges of Knowledge to Intervention Models for Combatting Filicide

Abstract Submissions

Abstracts must be a maximum of 250 words and include:

• „Paper title
• „Topic/Area
• „Principal author contact details: Name, address, email and phone numbers
• „Co-author contact details
• „Brief biography of authors (100 words)

Your submission should be:

• „Electronic
• „Plain text only – no formatting, table, graphs, images macros, headers or footers

Review Process
A panel of reviewers will judge all submitted abstracts on the following criteria:

• „ Originality
• „ Importance and relevance of content (papers/posters)

Successful applicants will be advised by email as to the day, date, time and duration of their presentation in the conference proceedings.
Presenters will need to register to attend the conference, and pay the appropriate registration fee.
Emerging themes at this stage are as follows:

• „Cross National research on filicide and differences in filicide between nations and cultures
• „Other Research on filicide
• „The impact of social policies, social welfare and health policies on filicide events and incidence
• „Death Review Committees, especially moving reports to reforms
• „Mental Health, Domestic Violence, Substance Abuse, Parental
• Separation, Criminal Histories and filicide
• „Relationship Between these Factors
• „Roles of Mothers, Fathers and Step-Parents
• „Role and Resources of Child Protection, Health Services, including GPs, maternal and child health nurses, psychiatric services, and Parental Separation Services, especially in family or private law services
• „Inter-relationship between media, events, community attitudes and prevention
• „Working with victims’ families
• „Working with perpetrators in Criminal Justice Services and Mental Health Services