BACKGROUND The Western Cape Province had the highest homicide rates in South Africa during the early 2000s. South African Police Service (SAPS) data suggested a significant decline in homicide rates in the Western Cape since 2007. It ranked second highest to the Eastern Cape Province until 2013 and ranked highest again at 52.1/100 000 in 2015. A recent national injury mortality survey offers an...

A MULTI-METHOD EXAMINIATION OF HOMICIDE INVESTIONATIONS ON CASE OUTCOMES By SHILA RENÉ HAWK December 1, 2015 Committee Chair: Dr. Dean Dabney Major Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology Approximately a third of homicide cases go unsolved each year. Research focused on understanding what affects homicide clearance rates is often methodologically underdeveloped and has produced mixed findi...

HOMICIDE IS A SERIOUS PUBLIC health problem in the United States, with 17 638 victims in 2002. Programs to prevent homicide can be distinguished by whether they are addressed to the general public or are targeted toward individuals who are considered high risk because of their previous criminal involvement. For example, federal gun laws incorporate both approaches; there are general provisions,...

(e.g., economic conditions) and situational factors (e.g., drug use) and increases and decreases in homicide rates. The study also examined whether changes in the responses of the criminal justice system appeared to be related to changes in the homicide rates in these cities. The eight cities were selected because their homicide rates were the strongest examples of selected trends. Therefore, t...

BACKGROUND The media attention received by homicides committed by patients with mental illness is thought to increase stigma. However, people with mental illness can also be victims of violence. We aimed to assess how often victims of homicide are current mental health patients and their relationship to the perpetrators. METHODS In a national consecutive case-series study, we obtained data fo...

BACKGROUND It has been stated that rates of homicide due to mental disorder are constant over time. AIMS To examine whether there were changes in the rates of homicide due to mental disorder over time, and whether changes in these rates were associated with changes in the rates of other homicides in England and Wales. METHOD Examination of four sets of official homicide statistics from Engl...

In England and Wales, a lifetime history of mental disorder is recorded in almost a third of homicides but mental illness as a defence in homicide cases has recently come under review. In this study, we aimed to compare the social, criminological and clinical characteristics of women and men convicted of homicide and secondly, to understand how pathways through the judicial system differ by gen...

Investigating the seasonal asymmetry of violent behaviour has a long history. Despite this, there still remains considerable debate about the nature and aetiology of this phenomenon. Reports on homicide, for example, are mixed: some have found homicide seasonality but most have not. In contrast, all published studies on assault report that this behaviour is seasonal. Moreover, only two studies,...

Abstract Homicide–suicide is an event in which individual murders one or more persons and then takes his/her own life. The present study aimed to assess the incidence of homicide-suicide Italy over a 10-year period (between 2009 2018) compare its findings with national international data. Furthermore, time series analysis was carried out employing autoregressive integrated moving average model....