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Addressing Filicide in Ghana: Linking Cultural Understanding With the Law Against Filicide. Does the Law Work?

INTRODUCTION: Consistent with international promulgation on the criminalization of filicide, Ghana’s Children’s Act 1998 (560) and the Criminal Justice Act criminalizes any form of torture against children. Yet, perpetrators of filicide in Ghana may go unpunished due to the beliefs in cultural norms...

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Autores principales: Abdullah, Alhassan, Frederico, Margarita, Mensah, Felix, Bentum, Hajara, Wang, Yihang, Asare, Jennifer Litela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9336680/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35911014
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.928963