Homicide - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Characteristics of perpetrators in homicide-followed-by-suicide incidents: National Violent Death Reporting System--17 US States, 2003-2005.

13 Sep 2008 Homicide-followed-by-suicide (referred to as "homicide-suicide") incidents are rare events but can have a profound impact on families and communities. A better understanding of perpetrator characteristics and how they compare with those of other ... Read more...

A comparison of intimate partner homicide to intimate partner homicide-suicide: one hundred and twenty-four New Mexico cases.

30 Aug 2008 The authors compare cases of female intimate partner homicide-suicide to female intimate partner homicide alone to describe risk factors and suggest prevention strategies, including strategies in the medical setting. Differences are found between ... Read more...

Monitoring change in health disparity.

30 Aug 2008 Agencies and programs tasked to reduce and eliminate disparity need the best available methods to assess the success of their efforts. When monitoring disparity it is vital to be aware of how absolute and relative measures of disparity, and when ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Homicide'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Hurricane Katrina. 29 Sep 2008
• Israeli government wants better monitoring of children's welfare, after three murders. 13 Sep 2008
• Characteristics of perpetrators in homicide-followed-by-suicide incidents: National Violent Death Reporting System--17 US States, 2003-2005. 13 Sep 2008
• Commentary. Genocide: can we predict, prevent, and protect? 30 Aug 2008
• A comparison of intimate partner homicide to intimate partner homicide-suicide: one hundred and twenty-four New Mexico cases. 30 Aug 2008
• Monitoring change in health disparity. 30 Aug 2008
• Detection of clenbuterol in heroin users in twelve postmortem cases at the Philadelphia medical examiner's office. 30 Aug 2008
• Rifle wounds: a review of range and location as pertaining to manner of death. 30 Aug 2008
• Nonnatural deaths of adolescents and teenagers: Fulton County, Georgia, 1985-2004. 30 Aug 2008
• Homicides committed by youth assailants: a retrospective study. 30 Aug 2008
• Endorsement of a genocidal HIV conspiracy as a barrier to HIV testing in South Africa. 30 Aug 2008
• Position and role of forensic psychiatry in integrative psychiatry. 30 Aug 2008
• Spousal violence in Bangladesh: a call for a public-health response. 30 Aug 2008
• Increased HIV infection rate among violent deaths: a mortuary study in the Republic of Congo. 18 Aug 2008
• Women who kill: a comparison of the psychosocial background of female and male perpetrators. Aug 2008
• The ethics of killing and letting die: active and passive euthanasia. 30 Jul 2008
• Homicide due to mental disorder in England and Wales over 50 years. 30 Jul 2008
• A positive response to a terrible tragedy. 30 Jul 2008
• Neighborhood racial/ethnic concentration, social disadvantage, and homicide risk: an ecological analysis of 10 U.S. cities. 24 Jul 2008
• Poverty, murder, and respect: unlikely to be linked in UK. 20 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Homicide'

Definition: The killing of one person by another.

Descriptor UI: D006708

Alternative terms: Homicide; Homicides; Wrongful Death; Death, Wrongful; Deaths, Wrongful; Wrongful Deaths; Murder; Murders; Genocide; Genocides; Killing; Killings;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; ethnology; history; legislation & jurisprudence; prevention & control; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.198.240.470; I01.880.735.344;