News tagged with homicides
Better NHS services reduce suicide rates
Researchers at The University of Manchester have for the first time shown a positive link between improvements in mental health services and a reduction in suicide rates.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Higher minimum legal drinking ages linked to lower rates of suicides and homicides later in life
Prior to the 1984 passage of a uniform drinking-age limit of 21 years in the U.S., many states permitted the legal purchase of alcohol at age 18. These lower drinking ages have been associated with several adverse outcomes ...
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Psychiatric nurses need training to reduce gun-related suicides, homicides
(Medical Xpress) -- Psychiatric nurses could play a role in preventing firearm suicides and homicides among the mentally ill, but few receive training on this issue, says a new study from Ball State University.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Homicide, suicide outpace traditional causes of death in pregnant, postpartum women
Violent deaths are outpacing traditional causes of maternal mortality, such as hemorrhage and preeclampsia, and conflicts with intimate partner are often a factor, researchers report.
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Suspects of child abuse homicide are convicted at rates similar to suspects of adult homicides
Child abuse homicide offenders appear to be convicted at a rate similar to that of adult homicide offenders in Utah and receive similar levels in severity of sentencing, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of ...
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Liquor store density linked to youth homicides
Violent crime could be reduced significantly if policymakers at the local level limit the number of neighborhood liquor stores and ban the sale of single-serve containers of alcoholic beverages, according to separate studies ...
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Alcohol blamed for high suicide rates in Northern Ireland
Alcohol and drugs are fuelling homicide and suicide rates in Northern Ireland, a new independent report by University of Manchester researchers has found, with alcohol appearing to be a key factor for the country's higher ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Ned Kelly tattoos linked to higher violent deaths and suicides
(Medical Xpress) -- In a paper soon to be published in the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Professor Roger Byard from Adelaide University showed that sporting a tattoo of Ned Kelly or in reference to him ...
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Demographics cloud optimism on black violent crime decrease
Optimism about studies that show a drop in the black percentage of crime may be dampened by demographic trends and statistical aberrations, according to a group of criminologists.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Killing Kings
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by a Cambridge University criminologist reveals just how dangerous it was to be a monarch in Europe before the modern era.
Jan 28, 2011 |
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Iowa State team calculates societal costs of five major crimes; finds murder at $17.25 million
Murder takes an obvious toll on society in terms of the loss of human life, but what does it actually cost each time there's a murder? It's about $17.25 million according a recent Iowa State University study.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Improving crisis prediction, disaster control and damage reduction
Some disasters and crises are related to each other by more than just the common negative social value we assign to them. For example, earthquakes, homicide surges, magnetic storms, and the U.S. economic recession are all ...
Sep 14, 2010 |
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Study of Death Penalty in North Carolina Shows That 'Race Matters'
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study examining death sentences in North Carolina over a 28-year period ending in 2007 shows that among similar homicides, the odds of a death sentence for those who are suspected of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 22, 2010 |
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Homicide and suicide rates among mentally ill on the decline
People with mental health problems are committing fewer homicides while the number of suicides by mental health patients has also fallen, latest figures for England and Wales reveal; a previous rise in homicides by mentally ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Seasonality of child abuse a myth: study
A new study of homicides of 797 children younger than age five has found that these deaths occur uniformly throughout the year, dispelling the widely held anecdotal notion that the winter months, and especially winter holidays, ...
Jun 21, 2010 |
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Homicide
Homicide (Latin: homicidium, Latin: homo human being + Latin: caedere to cut, kill) refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English. Homicide is not always a punishable act under the criminal law, and is different than a murder from such formal legal point of view.
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