Comparing Homicide-Suicides in the United States and Sweden.
Research on homicides followed by suicides has largely relied on very localized samples and relatively short time spans of data. As a result, little is known about the extent to which patterns within cases of homicide-suicides are geographically specific. The current study seeks to help fill this gap by comparing twenty years of homicide-suicide data for Sweden and a large U.S. county. Although some of the underlying patterns in the two countries are similar (e.g., decreasing rates), a number of important differences emerge, particularly with respect to incidence, weapons used, perpetrator age, and relationship of the perpetrator to the victim.
['Regoeczi|Wendy C|WC|', 'Granath|Sven|S|', 'Issa|Rania|R|', 'Gilson|Thomas|T|', 'Sturup|Joakim|J|']
D004777:Environment D006708:Homicide D006801:Humans D013405:Suicide D013548:Sweden D014481:United States D054041:Weapons
homicide suicide cross-national forensic science murder toxicology