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Domestic homicide in Maputo Province, Mozambique

open access: yesForensic 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
doaj   +1 more source

Children bereaved by fatal intimate partner violence: A population-based study into demographics, family characteristics and homicide exposure. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +1 more source

Factors associated with the homicide profile of a prison population: Analysis of the Peruvian national census, 2016

open access: yesCogent 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Influence of Government Effectiveness and Corruption on the High Levels of Homicide in Latin America

open access: yesSocial 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
doaj   +1 more source

Abnormal brain structure in youth who commit homicide

open access: yesNeuroImage: 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
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial-temporal patterns of homicide in socioeconomically deprived settings: violence in Alagoas, Brazil, 2006‒2015

open access: yesGlobal 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
doaj   +1 more source

The contribution of age structure to the international homicide decline.

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Relationship between Homicide and Suicide: A narrative and conceptual review of violent death

open access: yesInternational Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2017
In this paper, we provide a narrative review of the theoretical discourse and empiric research on the relationship between homicide and suicide.Understanding of homicide and suicide has evolved from religious condemnation during the Middle Ages, to ...
Corey B Bills
doaj   +3 more sources

Absolute versus relative socioeconomic disadvantage and homicide: a spatial ecological case–control study of US zip codes

open access: yesInjury Epidemiology, 2022
Background Homicide is a major cause of death and contributes to health disparities in the United States. This burden overwhelmingly affects people from racial and ethnic minority populations as homicide occurs more often in neighborhoods with high ...
Ariana N. Gobaud   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Specificity of homicide in tunisian women

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2023
Introduction Homicide is the most serious, radical and irreversible criminal act. It arouses a multitude of questions and fears. Committed by women, the homicide seems more unusual and weird.
R. Ouali   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

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