Research

Children

Alhusen J.L., Ho G.W.K., Smith K.F., Campbell J.C. (2014) Addressing Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment: Challenges and Opportunities. In: Korbin J., Krugman R. (eds) Handbook of Child Maltreatment. Child Maltreatment (Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy), vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht

Alisic, E., Groot A, Snetselaar H, Stroeken T, van de Putte E (2014) Care for Children after Intimate Partner Homicide. Research and Documentation Centre (WODC). Psychotrauma Centre Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Centre Utrecht

Alisic, E., Krishna, R.N., Groot, A.D., & Frederick, J.W. (2015). Children’s Mental Health and Well-Being After Parental Intimate Partner Homicide: A Systematic Review. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 18, 328-345.

Alisic, E., Groot A, Snetselaar H, Stroeken T, van de Putte E (2017) Children bereaved by fatal intimate partner violence: A population-based study into demographics, family characteristics and homicide exposure. PLoS ONE 12(10): e0183466.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183466

Alisic, E., Groot A, Snetselaar H, Stroeken T, Hehenkamp, L. and van de Putte E (2017) Children’s perspectives on life and well-being after parental intimate partner homicide. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 8:sup6, 1463796, DOI: 10.1080/20008198.2018.1463796

Black, D. and Kaplan, T. (1988) Father Kills Mother, Issues and Problems Encountered by a Child Psychiatric Team. British Journal of Psychiatry 153, 624-630.

Black, D. and Newman, M. (1996) Children and Domestic Violence: A Review. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Vol 1(1): 79-88

Black, D., Harris-Hendriks, J. and Kaplan, T. (1993) Father Kills Mother: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Children, Bereavement Care, 12:1, 9-11

Black, D. (1998) Working with the effects of traumatic bereavement by Uxoricide (spouse killing) on young children’s attachment behaviour. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 2, 245-249

Daly, M., Wiseman, K.A. and Wilson, M.I. (1997) Women with Children Sired by Previous Partners Incur Excess Risk of Uxoricide. Homicide Studies, Vol 1 No. 1, 61-71

Ferrara P, Caporale O, Cutrona C, Sbordone A, Amato M, Spina G, Ianniello F, Fabrizio GC, Guadagno C, Basile MC, Miconi F, Perrone G, Riccardi R, Verrotti A, Pettoello-Mantovani M, Villani A, Corsello G, Scambia G. (2015). Femicide and murdered women's children: which future for these children orphans of a living parent? Italian journal of Pediatrics, 41, 68.

Harris-Hendriks J, Black D, Kaplan T (2000) When Father Kills Mother: Guiding Children Through Trauma and Grief, 2nd ed. London: Routledge.

Juodis, M, Starzomski, A, Porter, S & Woodworth, M 2014, A comparison of domestic and non-domestic homicides: further evidence for distinct dynamics and heterogeneity of domestic homicide perpetrators, Journal of Family Violence, 29, pp. 299–313.

Kapardis, A., Baldry, A.C. and Konstantinou, M. (2017) A Qualitative Study of Intimate Partner Femicide and Orphans in Cyprus. Qualitative Sociology Review. 13. 80-99.

Lennings, C.J. (2009) Uxoricide: When dad kills mum, what to do with the child? The Children’s Court of New South Wales. Children’s Law News. April 2009.  

Parker, B., Steeves, R., Anderson, S., & Moran, M. (2004) Uxoricide: A phenomenological study of adult survivors. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 25, 133-145.

Steeves, R.H. and Parker, B. (2007) Adult Perspectives on Growing Up Following Uxoricide. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 22 (10): 1270-1284 

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Beyond Signs of Safety; Reimagining the Organisation and Practice of Social Work with Children and Families  - Trevor Spratt, John Devaney, John Frederick

Relationships Australia (2015) Examination of children affected by family and domestic violence, Submission to the Human Rights Commission. Available at: https://www.relationships.org.au/national/submissions-and-policy-statements/submission-to-the-human-rights-commissions-examination-of-children-affected-by-family-and-domestic-violence/view 

Kaplan, T., Black, D., Hyman, P., & Knox, J. (2001) Outcome of children seen after one parent killed the other. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 6, 9-22.

Alisic, E., Groot, A., Snetselaar, H., & Stroeken, T. (2025). Raising a child bereaved by domestic homicide: caregivers’ experiences. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2025.2463277

Reports

Study on Familicide & Domestic and Family Violence Death Reviews (Ireland)

Review into the Needs of Families Bereaved by Homicide (UK)

You were Told: A voice for killed women (UK)

Orfani Speciali (Italian)

Podcast

Assume Nothing

Personal Accounts

Kathryn Joy was raised by the man who killed their mother. Now they want answers

Jade's Law

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqvvl7w2607o.amp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-baMuGNYRYM  

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a45423944/jades-law-explained/