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Black Homicide Victimization in the United States: An Analysis of 2011 Homicide Data [PDF]
, 2014 The devastation homicide inflicts on black teens and adults is a national crisis, yet it is all too often ignored outside of affected communities. This study examines the problem of black homicide victimization at the state level by analyzing unpublished
Josh Sugarmann, Marty Langley
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Drug Testing and Analysis, EarlyView.The study presents a validated UPLC‐MS/MS method applied for the detection of fentanyl, NPFs, xylazine, nitazenes in hair samples from 250 post‐mortem cases collected at the Jefferson County Coroner/Medical Examiner's Office (Birmingham, AL, USA). In 52% of the analyzed hair samples, fentanyl, its main metabolites, and related analogs were detected ...
Marco Ballotari +6 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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Association between homicide injury severity and benzodiazepine influence
Forensic Sciences Research, 2021 There are case reports of offenders inflicting excessive injuries on their victims when under the influence of benzodiazepines. However, the potential association between benzodiazepine influence on the offender and victim injury severity in a general ...
Fredrik Tamsen +2 more
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Violence in Guatemala pushes adults and children to seek work in Mexico [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 This article estimates the impact of violence on emigration crossings from Guatemala to Mexico as final destination during 2009-2017. To identify causal effects, we use as instruments the variation in deforestation in Guatemala, and the seizing of cocaine in Colombia. We argue that criminal organizations deforest land in Guatemala, fueling violence and
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Fatal child maltreatment in England, 2005-9 [PDF]
, 2011 Objective: This paper presents comprehensive and up-to-date data covering four years of Serious Case Reviews into fatal child maltreatment in England. Methods: Information on all notified cases of fatal maltreatment between April 2005 and March 2009 was
Belsky +34 more
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Premature Mortality in Patients With Anorexia Nervosa: A Matched Cohort Study of Cause of Death
International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To determine the extent to which anorexia nervosa is associated with premature mortality. Method We carried out a matched cohort study of 7332 male and female patients with anorexia nervosa and 73,215 patient controls who were admitted between 1989 and 2023 in hospital centers of Quebec, Canada. We tracked the patients longitudinally
Nathalie Auger +7 more
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Abandonment and Reconciliation: Addressing Political and Common Law Objections to Fetal Homicide Laws [PDF]
, 2009 Fetal homicide laws criminalize killing a fetus largely to the same extent as killing any other human being. Historically, the common law did not generally recognize feticide as a crime, but this was because of the evidentiary born-alive rule, not ...
Curran, Douglas S.
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Homicide clearance in Western Europe
European Journal of Criminology, 2018 This study provides an overview of homicide clearance in four West European countries: Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. Using data from the European Homicide Monitor, employing similar definitions and uniform coding schemes, this study ...
M. Liem +6 more
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