Citation

Bridges FS, Lester D. Forensic Sci. Int. 2011; 206(1-3): 185-189.

Affiliation

Department of Health, Leisure, and Exercise Science, The University of West Florida, 11,000 University Parkway, Pensacola, FL 32514-5750, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.08.003

PMID

20813473

Abstract

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.

Language: en