Citation

Seifert D, Lambe A, Anders S, Pueschel K, Heinemann A. Forensic Sci. Int. 2009; 188(1-3): 46-51.

Affiliation

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Institute of Legal Medicine, Butenfeld 34, 22529 Hamburg, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.forsciint.2009.03.011

PMID

19394771

Abstract

For the time-frame of February 1st, 2003 until December 31st, 2005, all forensic medical experts at the Medico-Legal Center of the Institute of Legal Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, completed a standardized questionnaire for every consenting surviving violence victim (n=2733) age 14 and older. Central to the quantitative analysis of the data collected was the extraction of specific injury characteristics from the sample population. A correlation was demonstrated between injury typologies and four possible perpetrator-victim constellations, each of which was subcategorized into sexual and non-sexual assaults.

Language: en