| Abstract [eng] |
This study is based on a comprehensive study by taking into account the historical development of this crime, its prevalence, dynamics, murder motives, murder locations, methods, social characteristics and medical diagnoses of mothers who murdered their newborns at the time of delivery or shortly thereafter, possibilities of applying preventive and rehabilitative measures, legal issues while qualifying the crime, regulation of different neonaticide definitions as specified in legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania, etc. The dissertation aims to determine the peculiarities of neonaticide from medical, social and legal viewpoints. The study deployed historical exploratory, logical, linguistic, comparative, epidemiological surveillance descriptive and widely handled statistical approaches. This study carried out a comprehensive analysis of neonaticide in terms of a holistic generalisation of the issue, i.e. the infanticide situation in Lithuania has been investigated in depth, practical recommendations have been provided to introduce new concepts to the scientific doctrine, to adjust the existing legal acts on neonaticide and to develop new legal acts, prepare statistical reports as well as introduce preventive and rehabilitative measures. Results have show, that women who murdered their first-day newborn at the time of delivery or shortly thereafter, were relatively young, single, with children, with low education, without any profession or occupation at the time of crime. The women concealed their pregnancy and delivery. The most common crime location - village location, inside the residential place of a woman. The motive for committing this crime, provided by women is fear and (or) shame. Women who murdered their newborn at the time of delivery or shortly thereafter, were not diagnosed with any mental and (or) behaviour disorders at the time of crime. |
