Comparing Homicide-Suicides in the United States and Sweden
| Autor: | Sven Granath, Wendy C. Regoeczi, Joakim Sturup, Rania Issa, Thomas Gilson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Sweden
Incidence (epidemiology) 05 social sciences Human factors and ergonomics Poison control Environment Suicide prevention United States Occupational safety and health Pathology and Forensic Medicine Suicide 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Homicide Injury prevention 050501 criminology Genetics Humans 030216 legal & forensic medicine Weapons 0505 law Cross national Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Forensic Sciences. 61:1524-1530 |
| ISSN: | 0022-1198 |
| Popis: | Research on homicides followed by suicides has largely relied on very localized samples and relatively short time spans of data. As a result, little is known about the extent to which patterns within cases of homicide-suicides are geographically specific. The current study seeks to help fill this gap by comparing twenty years of homicide-suicide data for Sweden and a large U.S. county. Although some of the underlying patterns in the two countries are similar (e.g., decreasing rates), a number of important differences emerge, particularly with respect to incidence, weapons used, perpetrator age, and relationship of the perpetrator to the victim. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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