Resource Tag: HOMICIDE AND SUICIDE

The aim of this study is to investigate potential differences between homicide-suicide cases in which the perpetrator does or does not write a suicide note. As homicide-suicides are complex types of lethal violence for which the aggressor cannot be held accountable, suicide notes may be a valuable source of information about the background of these […]

Aims: Familicide is a multiple-victim homicide incident in which the killer’s spouse and one or more children are slain. A systematic review was conducted to reveal the background factors of western homicide perpetrators. Methods: The systematic search was performed in the Arto, Medic, Cinahl, Medline, EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier and Social Services abstracts databases. The keywords were familicide, […]

Murder-suicide is “a dramatic, violent event” in which a person, almost always a man, commits one murder or multiple murders, and then shortly after commits suicide.1 What makes these acts particularly disturbing is that they involve more than one person and often involve a family. They almost always are committed with a firearm. Yet the […]

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There is a lack of robust empirical research examining mental disorder and homicideÐsuicide. Primary care medical records are seldom used in homicideÐsuicide research. The aims of this study were to describe the characteristics of offenders and victims; determine the prevalence of mental disorder and contact with mental health services and examine adverse events prior to […]

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Little is known about the cause-specific deaths among young suicide attempters from the general population, and the time window for intervention to reduce the elevated rate of death was unclear. We analyzed a nationally representative sample of young adults (17Ð39 years old) who participated in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III, […]

Highlights NVDRS is the only data differentiating HFBS from other suicides. African American and Hispanic men were more likely to die in HFBS event than Whites. Prevention efforts should recognize the importance of racial and ethnic differences. HFBS events need to be identified, monitored, and better understood to be prevented.

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The distinction between self-inflicted blade wounds and blade wounds inflicted by another can be difficult in situations where there is little available history or context. We reviewed homicides and suicides in the past 10 years at the Vermont Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to define the characteristics of homicidal and suicidal blade wounds. All […]

This paper reviews the literature on the psychological consequences of sudden and violent losses, including disaster and military losses. It also reviews risk and resilience factors for grief and mental health and describes the effects and possible benefit of psychosocial interventions. Contact us for a copy of this article, or view online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221684209_Bereavement_and_Mental_Health_after_Sudden_and_Violent_Losses_A_Review

Of the approximately 38,500 deaths by suicide in the U.S. annually, about two percent – between 750 and 800 – are murder-suicides. The horror of murder-suicides looms large in the public consciousness – they are reported in the media with more frequency and far more sensationalism than most suicides, and yet we have little understanding […]

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Linden (2003) has posited that a salient, negative life event can lead to the development of posttraumatic embitterment disorder (PTED), conceptualized as an adjustment disorder marked by the prolonged experience of strong emotions marked by bitterness and related feelings in an individual who had otherwise been functioning normally and prior had minimal or no diagnosable […]

Persons with mental illness are still over-portrayed as perpetrators of violent crimes, especially homicides.

Male possessiveness is a key motivating factor in the majority of cases of dyadic death. While domestic abuse is found in some cases, there are others with no such history. ÔSuicidal abrogationÕ frees perpetrators to commit homicide before they die.

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Suicide and homicide are among the leading causes of death for young African-American men; however, little is known about how family members cope with these types of deaths. This exploratory phenomenological study examines the traumatic loss and coping experiences of a purposive convenience sample of 12 immediate African-American surviving family members with a combined experience […]

There is an intuitive appeal to the notion that the more lethal the weaponry the more lethal the violence. We explore one aspect of lethal weaponry, firearm accessibility. Using nation-level (N = 168) data from the Small Arms Survey and the World Health Organization’s measures of mortality we examine whether rates of small arm ownership […]

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We examined the relationship between levels of household firearm ownership, as measured directly and by a proxy-the percentage of suicides committed with a firearm-and age-adjusted firearm homicide rates at the state level. Contact us for a copy of this article, or view online at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828709/

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