Abstract
Victims of Criminal Homicide in Sweden: a Matched Case-Control Study of Health and Social Risk Factors Among all 1739 Cases During 1978-1994
Allgulander C
This study was undertaken to determine health & social factors contributing to the risk of being murdered in the Swedish, predominantly Caucasian population. Suicide is included among the examined risk factors. The authors conclude that traumatic brain injury, physical abuse, alcohol dependence, & criminal recidivism conferred risk of being murdered. (25 refs)