Offenses named for the killing of a relative, a newborn, a child or an unborn child, including the Latin terms for killing a mother, father, brother, sister, spouse or whole family, and the killing of infants. An offense belongs here when the victim is defined by kinship or by age at birth. It excludes killings of adults who are not relatives and the culturally specific killings in the honor and gender-motivated group.
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Preliminary Examination of So-Called Honour Killings in Canada (Department of Justice Canada)
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Honour killing, in Islamic definitions, refers specifically to extra-legal punishment by the family against a woman
Foeticide (Wikipedia)
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Foeticide (or feticide) is the act of killing a human fetus.
Filicide (Wikipedia)
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Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child.
Neonaticide (Wikipedia)
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Neonaticide is the deliberate act of a parent murdering their own child during the first 24 hours of life.
Parricide (Wikipedia)
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Parricide is the deliberate killing of one's own parent.
Wikipedia, Familicide
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A familicide is a type of murder or murder-suicide in which an individual kills multiple of their own close family members (children, spouses, siblings, or parents) in quick succession.
Patricide (Wikipedia)
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Patricide (or paternal homicide) is the act of killing one's own father.
Fratricide (Wikipedia)
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Fratricide (from Latin fratricidium; from frater 'brother' and -cīdium 'killing', the assimilated root of caedere 'to kill, cut down') is the act of killing one's own brother.
Sororicide (Wikipedia)
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Sororicide (from Latin sororicidium; from soror 'sister' and -cīdium 'killing') is the act of murdering one's own sister.
Mariticide (Wikipedia)
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Mariticide (from Latin maritus "husband" + -cide, from caedere "to cut, to kill") means the killing of one's own husband.
Female infanticide (Wikipedia)
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Female infanticide is the deliberate killing of newborn female children.
Infanticide (Wikipedia)
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Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants or offspring.
The Law Dictionary: Matricide (Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd edition)
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The murder of a mother; or one who has slain his mother.
The Law Dictionary: Uxoricide (Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd edition)
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The killing of a wife by her husband; one who murders his wife.
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