The Link Between Drugs and Homicide
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Connections between drugs and homicide are widely acknowledged. Belief in those links has helped to understand the nature of homicide, to direct homicide investigations and to develop approaches to homicide prevention. These connections, however, have rarely been specifically delineated. Thus no common vocabulary for describing the connections between drugs and murder has developed and no common set of variables to consider has been recognized.
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