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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Homicide-suicide"”.
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Examining the scope of homicide-suicide perpetrated by law enforcement: A population-based retrospective study using multiple frames, 2003 - 2017
… measures, producing unreliable estimates. Homicide-suicide events, as a subset of domestic violence offenses, present a unique opportunity for study given the data collection practices of existing public health surveillance infrastructure. The present study contributes to the literature by …
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The impact of the death of a peer on adolescents
Increasing rates of adolescent homicide, suicide, and AIDS have forced researchers to relinquish comforting beliefs about youth and vitality, and to accept the reality of adolescent death. Previous studies of bereavement have given precedence to parental and fraternal relations, and peers of …
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The epidemiology, pathology and toxicology of suicide
Complete suicides and parasuicides are a major cause of death and disability in South Africa and the rest of the world. The epidemiology, pathology and toxicology of complete suicides were investigated in this study. All the complete suicide cases, which were presented to Salt River Medicolegal …
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Estimating injury mortality in South Africa and identifying urban-rural differences
… gain insight into the explanatory variables for homicide in metropolitan- and non-metropolitan (metro- and non-metro) areas. The literature review describes the global and national estimates of injury mortality and reports higher rural than urban injury mortality rates for high-income countries. …
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A study of forensically important Necrophgous Diptera in Kuwait.
… nationalities. The cause of death was either homicide, suicide, drug abuse, toxicity or abortion. The necrophagous fly composition and their succession patterns obtained from real forensic cases showed a number of basic similarities to those observed on rabbit carcasses as experimental …
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A Tale of Two States: Texas v. California Firearm Mortality, Legislation, and Policies to Reduce Firearm-Related Violence in the United States
Ninety Americans die every day due to gun violence. This violence is a public health burden resulting in thousands of injuries and deaths every year. The age-adjusted firearm mortality rate per 100,000 from 2000-2015 ranges from 10.14-11.01 and is trending up. States address gun violence …
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Gun Violence in Black and White: State Gun Laws and Race-Specific Mortality Rates
… and violent misdemeanor prohibitions—and firearm homicide and suicide rates among Blacks and Whites in the United States. Using eighteen years of publicly available data, the study examined relationships employing a generalized difference-in-difference linear regression model with fixed effects …