Familicide-Suicide and Care Justice : Focusing on the Gendering of Filicide-Suicide

Key Points

• The research aims to interpret familicide-suicide from a social justice perspective, highlighting gendered biases and structural inequalities.
• Analyzed literature on child murder and suicide in South Korea to uncover epistemological injustices.
• Explored narratives of child murder-suicide incidents reported in media from 1990 to 2025.
• Investigated the multilayered dimensions of care injustice involved in these incidents.
• Identified systemic gender roles influencing the dynamics of familicide-suicide cases.
• Revealed that these incidents reflect complex social facts, highlighting class and familial structures.
• Proposed policy solutions for a just transition of caregiving responsibilities.

Abstract