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For the purpose of this research, neonaticide was operationally defined as the killing of one’s biological newborn infant less than 24 h after birth. Infanticide was operationally defined as the killing of one’s biological child over 24 h old, but less than one year of age.
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Shelton, J.L.E., Hoffer, T.A., Muirhead, Y. (2015). Method. In: Behavioral Analysis of Maternal Filicide. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08150-2_12
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