The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has established an objective for the nation calling for a substantial reduction in the homicide victimization rate for young black males: by 1990, the death rate from homicide among black males 15 -24 years of age should be reduced to below 6 0 /1 0 0 ,0 0 0 (compared with 7 2 .5 /1 0 0 ,0 0 0 in 1978) ( / ) . To monitor and promote progress towa...

Importance Firearm laws in one state may be associated with increased firearm death rates from homicide and suicide in neighboring states are uncertain. Objective To determine whether counties located closer to states with lenient firearm policies have higher firearm death rates. Design, Setting, and Participants This cross-sectional study of firearm death rates by county for January 2010 t...

BACKGROUND Research concerning suicide and homicide in North Carolina is needed so that medical providers and others who develop and implement preventive and therapeutic interventions related to violence have an empirical base from which to work. METHODS North Carolina Violent Death Reporting System data composed of death certificates, medical examiner reports, and law enforcement reports wer...

OBJECTIVE To assess a new impunity index and variables that have been found to predict variation in homicide rates in other geographical levels as predictive of state-level homicide rates in Brazil. METHODS This was a cross-sectional ecological study. Data from the mortality information system relating to the 27 Brazilian states for the years 1996 to 2005 were analyzed. The outcome variables ...

Homicide disproportionately affects persons aged 10-24 years in the United States and consistently ranks in the top three leading causes of death in this age group, resulting in approximately 4,800 deaths and an estimated $9 billion in lost productivity and medical costs in 2010. To investigate trends in homicide among persons aged 10-24 years for the period 1981-2010, CDC analyzed National Vit...

OBJECTIVE To describe age- and sex-specific rates of child homicide in South Africa. METHODS A cross-sectional mortuary-based study was conducted in a national sample of 38 medicolegal laboratories operating in 2009. These were sampled in inverse proportion to the number that were operational in each of three strata defined by autopsy volume: < 500, 500-1499 or > 1499 annual autopsies. Child ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between levels of patriarchy and male health by comparing female homicide rates with male mortality within countries. HYPOTHESIS High levels of patriarchy in a society are associated with increased mortality among men. DESIGN Cross sectional ecological study design. SETTING 51 countries from four continents were represented in the data-America, Europe, Au...

Forensic patients with schizophrenia who had carried out a homicide scored higher on a measure of moral cognition (MFQ-30) than other violent patients. Neurocognitive impairment was associated with homicide by mediation via higher scores for in-group loyalty.

This study links police records, vital statistics, census data, and an original survey of 8,872 Chicago residents to assess an integrated theoretical perspective on neighborhood-level variations in homicide. We highlight two neglected dimensions of neighborhood context – social processes and spatial interdependence. Structural characteristics in 1990 and survey measures from 1995 are used to mo...

BACKGROUND Homicides by people with mental illness have been studied using either clinical or legal categorization of the homicide as abnormal. No previous study has employed both definitions in the same population. METHOD A retrospective study of all homicides in New Zealand between 1988 and 2000 considered mentally abnormal homicide using a legal definition (when the courts deemed a contrib...