@article{ref1,
title="Two decades of adolescent suicides assessed at Milan University's medicolegal unit: Epidemiology, forensic pathology and psychopathology",
journal="Journal of forensic and legal medicine",
year="2015",
author="Clerici, Carlo Alfredo and Gentile, Guendalina and Marchesi, Matteo and Muccino, Enrico and Veneroni, Laura and Zoja, Riccardo",
volume="37",
number="",
pages="15-21",
abstract="AIM: to analyze the cases of suicide committed by adolescents in and around the city of Milan over a 20-year period (1993-2012). <br><br>MATERIALS AND METHODS: cases of suicide involving individuals between 10 and 19 years of age were drawn from 20,757 autopsies performed by the Medico-legal Unit at Milan University. Seventy-eight cases were considered (20 females and 58 males, with the ratio of 1:2.9), and their clinical and circumstantial histories, epidemiology, forensic pathology and psychopathological issues were analyzed. <br><br>RESULT: Adolescents were involved in 2.23% of all suicides committed in Milan during the period examined. The &quot;mean&quot; victim is a male without psychiatric disease, aged between 16 and 19, that commits suicide outdoors. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: In the majority of cases, there were no premonitory signs, nor any particular contingent or remote reason that might explain these violent deaths, which therefore remain &quot;impulsive&quot;.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1752-928X",
doi="10.1016/j.jflm.2015.09.016",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2015.09.016"
}