TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Homicide-suicide in the United States, 1968-1975
JO  - Forensic science international
A1  - Bridges, F. Stephen
A1  - Lester, David
SP  - 185
EP  - 189
VL  - 206
IS  - 1-3
N2  - This paper describes for the first time the epidemiology of homicide-suicide events in the whole of the United States using archival data. From 1968 to 1975, there were 2215 homicide-suicide events out of 123,467 homicides. The mean rate of homicide-suicide events was 0.134 per 100,000 per year. The murderers in these events differ from the typical murderer and the typical suicide in socio-demographic characteristics. Details of the characteristics of this population may be valuable for understanding the circumstances of homicide-suicide events and planning preventive measures.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0379-0738
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.08.003
ID  - ref1
ER  -