Open AccessParricide: Psychiatric morbidity
Author(s) -
Bojana Dunjic,
Nadja P. Maric,
Miroslava Jašović-Gašić,
D Dunjić
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.135
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2406-0895
pISSN - 0370-8179
DOI - 10.2298/sarh0812635d
Subject(s) - medicine , psychiatry
Parricide is defined as a murder of parents by their children; the patricide is murder of father, while matricide is murder of mother. This entity is classified as homicide, but it differs in the fact that victims are parents and the killers are their children. Mostly, it is associated with psychiatric morbidity.