| Abstrakt: |
According to a public health/harm reduction perspective, homicide can be construed as one of three types of violent deaths, the other two being suicide and accident. Epidemiological research on the topic thus focuses not on the use of police-type data, but rather on mortality statistics. In keeping with such an approach, but in order to provide additional analytical depth to the understanding of homicide as part of a larger violence cluster, the proposed research aims at delineating the differences between all three types of violent deaths using medico-legal narratives. Data for this research were collected in a medical examiner's office in an urban area of the Northeast and encompass a sample 288 investigated deaths between 2002 and 2005. Reports narratives will be analyzed in order to achieve an event-structure typology of violent deaths. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
