The contribution of age structure to the international homicide decline.
PLoS ONE, 2019 BackgroundSince 1990, the world's homicide rate has declined by nearly 20%. While prior research has documented parallel homicide declines across many individual countries, the causes of a shared international homicide decline remain unknown.
Mateus Rennó Santos +3 more
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Children bereaved by fatal intimate partner violence: A population-based study into demographics, family characteristics and homicide exposure. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 In the context of violence against women, intimate partner homicide increasingly receives research and policy attention. Although the impact of losing a parent due to intimate partner homicide is intuitively obvious, little is known about the children ...
Eva Alisic +4 more
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Evaluating the Impact of Florida's "Stand Your Ground" Self-defense Law on Homicide and Suicide by Firearm: An Interrupted Time Series Study. [PDF]
JAMA Internal Medicine, 2016 Importance: In 2005, Florida amended its self-defense laws to provide legal immunity to individuals using lethal force in self-defense. The enactment of "stand your ground" laws in the United States has been controversial and their effect on rates of ...
Gasparrini, Antonio +2 more
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A Sociological Analysis of the Effect of Economic Indicators on Homicide in Iran during 1995-2018 [PDF]
جامعه شناسی کاربردی, 2022 IntroductionMore than 464,000 people are killed each year worldwide. Homicide as a violent crime occurs in all countries, regardless of political, religious, or economic background. It is considered as a major public health issue. In explaining homicide,
Siroos Ahmadi
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Comparative evaluation of toxicology and sociodemographic characteristics in homicide and suicide victims [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2023 Background/Aim. Suicide and homicide are crucial social problems, especially frequent among the population younger than 40 years. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of different sociodemographic factors and relevant psychoactive substances
Bogdanović Milenko +6 more
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Vital Signs: Changes in Firearm Homicide and Suicide Rates — United States, 2019–2020
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2022 Introduction The majority of homicides (79%) and suicides (53%) in the United States involved a firearm in 2020. High firearm homicide and suicide rates and corresponding inequities by race and ethnicity and poverty level represent important public ...
S. Kegler +10 more
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Pregnancy-Associated Deaths Due to Drugs, Suicide, and Homicide in the United States, 2010–2019
Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2022 Drug-related deaths, suicide, and homicide accounted for 22% of pregnancy-associated deaths in the United States from 2010 through 2019, with drug-related deaths increasing almost twofold over that period.
C. Margerison +3 more
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BJPsych Open, 2022 Background The extent to which rates of homicide by people with or without schizophrenia vary over time has theoretical and practical implications in understanding homicide by people with mental illness.
Andrei Golenkov +3 more
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Homicide During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period in the United States, 2018–2019
Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2021 Homicide is a leading cause of death during pregnancy and the postpartum period in the United States. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the national pregnancy-associated homicide mortality ratio, characterize pregnancy-associated homicide victims, and compare the ...
M. Wallace +4 more
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European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction The majority of homicides in society are not associated with mental illness, however there is an established association between homicide and schizophrenia.
N. Basrak, H. Kennedy, M. Davoren
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