A foundational implementation of the WHO/CDC Injury Surveillance Guidelines was conducted in Dar es Salaam region of the United Republic of Tanzania in 2005. The Guidelines were adapted to gather qualitative as well as quantitative data about intentional injury mortality which were collected concurrently at the Muhimbili National Hospital Mortuary. An interview schedule of 12 quantitative varia...

OBJECTIVES Strong evidence based on case record reviews indicates that the incidence of child homicide reported from death certificates is under ascertained. The characteristics of infant injury fatalities with undetermined, but suspicious, intent were compared for the probability that they should be considered homicides. METHODS Using linked birth and death certificates for all birth cohorts...

Research has reported that a strong risk factor for traumatic injury is having a previous injury (i.e., recidivism). To date, the only study examining the relationship between recidivism and homicide reported strong associations, but was limited by possible selection bias. The current matched case-control study utilized coroner's data from 2004 to 2008. Subjects were linked to trauma registry d...

Changes in US Immigration laws that occurred during the mid 1980s to the late 1990s led to a sharp increase in criminal deportations. Using panel data for a sample of 38 developed and developing countries, I provide evidence for a statistically significantly positive causal relationship between increases in the numbers of criminal deportees and increases in intentional homicide rates. The magni...

The purpose of this research was to assess the effect of major social changes in Germany since 1989 on mortality due to intentional injury. Mechanisms and types of fatal intentional injury in East and West Germany between 1970 and 1995 were determined from death certificates and compared with judicial data on violent crime convictions and recent public survey data on citizen fear of crime. The ...

Spousal homicide has become one of China's most common forms femicide. Therefore, the investigation systematic gender bias and in-group in imprisonment decisions is conducted this study to explore fairness impartiality Chinese judicial system. Fifty random intentional spousal cases China are analysed using context analysis method. The found a large similarity between decision made by female mal...

The purpose of the article is to characterize features prevention intentional homicide in terms its implementation by criminal police units. Subject research: subject research Methodology: epistemological and legal method, methods generalization analysis, method grouping, statistical, documentary social survey methods, logical are used course research. results considers main problems determinin...

The purpose of the article is to determine model operational search prediction intentional homicide by criminal police Ukraine. Subject research: subject research a homicides Methodology: methodological basis for general and special methods techniques scientific knowledge, in particular: normative dogmatic method, epistemological monographic comparative legal modeling method grouping, logical g...