Citation

Thomsen JL, Albrektsen SB, Aalund O, Breiting VB, Danielsen L, Helweg-Larsen K, Jacobsen J, Kjaerulff H, Staugaard H. Forensic Sci. Int. 1989; 40(3): 291-297.

Affiliation

Copenhagen Study Group for comparison of the pattern of deliberate violence in Europe and South America, Denmark.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2731846

Abstract

As part of a transcultural investigation of injuries due to deliberate violence in Denmark and South America, homicides in the Copenhagen area were studied for a 1-year period. Forty-five cases corresponding to a rate of approximately 2/10(5) per year were recorded. The rate seems to be increasing and the pattern changing with a higher frequency of stabbing and with an increasing frequency of high blood-alcohol concentrations in the victims. The highest number were killed at home. In the majority of cases the aggressor and the victim knew each other. A reduction in alcohol consumption is indicated as a possible preventive measure.

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