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Intimate Partner Homicide: Comparison Between Homicide and Homicide-Suicide in Portugal
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2023 Intimate partner homicide (IPH) is a tragic event. Studies involving the comparison between IPH and intimate partner homicide-suicide (IPH-S) are scarce, with few studies in Portugal about this issue. The current study aims to compare IPH and IPH-S perpetrators, the victim–perpetrator relationships dynamics, and homicide circumstances.
Mariana Gonçalves +2 more
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Child homicide: generating victim and suspect risk profiles [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose– In England and Wales, on average one child every week is a victim of homicide. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether different victim-risk profiles and suspect variables can be differentiated for specific victim ages.Design/methodology/
Bryant, R. +3 more
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SSM: Population Health, 2023 Background: Suicide and homicide have long been viewed in Western culture as moral, ethical and legal equivalents. This view has underpinned many theoretical and empirical explorations into their relationship over the centuries.
Zixu Li, Ziyi Cai, Paul S.F. Yip
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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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Social Sciences, 2021 Most research that has examined the international variation in homicide levels has focused on structural variables, with the suggestion that socio-economic development operates as a cure for violence.
Spencer P. Chainey +2 more
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Abnormal brain structure in youth who commit homicide
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2014 Background: Violence that leads to homicide results in an extreme financial and emotional burden on society. Juveniles who commit homicide are often tried in adult court and typically spend the majority of their lives in prison.
L.M. Cope +8 more
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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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Global Health Action, 2021 Background Homicide presents a significant health burden globally, but geographical differences in homicide rates necessitate focussed analyses of spatial and temporal patterns, particularly in affected areas.
Kevan Guilherme Nóbrega Barbosa +5 more
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Making Sense of Homicide: A Student Textbook
, 2021 The first dedicated textbook for Criminology students studying homicide. As the authors explain, criminal homicide is but one form of lethal violence victims may suffer, leading them to describe a much broader range of scenarios.
Winch, Ronald +3 more
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A tale of two capitalisms: preliminary spatial and historical comparisons of homicide rates in Western Europe and the USA [PDF]
, 2009 This article examines comparative homicide rates in the United States and Western Europe in an era of increasingly globalized neoliberal economics. The main finding of this preliminary analysis is that historical and spatial correlations between distinct
Steve Hall +3 more
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