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Mass homicide by firearm in Canada: Effects of legislation
PLoS ONE, 2023 Canada implemented a series of laws regulating firearms including background checks and licensing, references, psychological questionnaires, prohibition of paramilitary style rifles, and magazine capacity restrictions in order to decrease the incidences ...
Caillin Langmann
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Domestic homicide in Maputo Province, Mozambique
Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2020 Background: Domestic Homicide is the most extreme form of domestic violence reported worldwide. Although in Mozambique there are public reports of domestic homicide, no research has been published that describes its pattern.
Casimiro Minerva Macucha +1 more
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Cogent Psychology, 2022 To determine the factors associated with the homicide profile of the prison population in Peru. A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted on the data of inmates surveyed in the First National Prison Population Census of 2016.
Nadia Castillo-Caciano +2 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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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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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
Ames, M. +66 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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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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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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Exploring the Drugs-Homicide Connection [PDF]
, 2004 Although research generally assumes a close relationship between drugs and violence, very little is known about the many different roles drugs can play in criminal events.
Bynum, Timothy S. +3 more
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