Offence, offender, and victim characteristics in South Korean filicides, 1948–1962: A descriptive study

IF 0.8 4区 心理学 Q4 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY
Leah C. J. Shon, Phillip C. Shon
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Abstract

Filicide is defined as the killing of children from birth to age 18 by a natural or step-parent. The legal definition of filicide in Korea does not impose such age limits. Although families in contemporary Korea are nuclear in structure, they were multigenerational prior to the industrialisation that occurred during the second half of the twentieth century. While psychiatric and evolutionary theories have been predominantly used in the filicide literature, prior works have neglected to examine how culture shapes violence against one’s offspring. This paper explores the offence, offender, and victim characteristics in South Korean filicides (1948–1962) through a content analysis of a major newspaper (Chosun Ilbo). Results indicate that filicides occur in one-on-one contexts, primarily carried out by biological parents against their offspring while adoptive children appeared as victims due to the genealogical customs practiced in Korean society. Results indicate that more than 12% of filicide victims are adults. The implications of our findings are discussed.

1948-1962年韩国杀人案件中的犯罪、罪犯和受害者特征:一项描述性研究
弑子罪被定义为由亲生父母或继父母杀害从出生到18岁的儿童。在韩国,杀害子女的法律定义并没有这样的年龄限制。虽然当代韩国的家庭结构是核心家庭,但在20世纪下半叶发生的工业化之前,他们是多代同堂的。虽然精神病学和进化理论在杀子文学中占主导地位,但之前的作品忽视了文化如何塑造对后代的暴力行为。本文通过对韩国主要报纸《朝鲜日报》的内容分析,探讨了1948年至1962年韩国杀人案件的犯罪、罪犯和受害者特征。结果表明,由于韩国社会的宗谱习俗,杀子行为主要发生在一对一的情况下,主要由亲生父母对其子女实施,而养子则成为受害者。结果表明,超过12%的杀女受害者是成年人。讨论了我们的研究结果的含义。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling (JIP-OP) is an international journal of behavioural science contributions to criminal and civil investigations, for researchers and practitioners, also exploring the legal and jurisprudential implications of psychological and related aspects of all forms of investigation. Investigative Psychology is rapidly developing worldwide. It is a newly established, interdisciplinary area of research and application, concerned with the systematic, scientific examination of all those aspects of psychology and the related behavioural and social sciences that may be relevant to criminal.
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