[Medico-legal and victimology aspects of homicides in the material of Bialystok Institute of Forensic Medicine in the years 1982-2003].
The authors presented an analysis of homicides based on autopsy material collected at Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bialystok in the years 1982-2003. Of 8,780 postmortem examinations, this type of death accounted for 7,4 % of cases, including 31,2 % women and 68,8 % men. Married individuals predominated among females, whereas the majority of male victims were single. Fifty-seven percent of victims died on the crime scene, 5,3 % within 48 hours. In conflicts of long-standing, immediate conflicts and fights, the perpetrators most commonly employed hard, blunt or blunt-edged crime weapons. In cases of murder with robbery and sexual homicides, strangulation was the most frequently used method. No seasonal character in homicide prevalence was observed.
Niemcunowicz-Janica
Anna
A
Z Zakładu Medycyny Sadowej Akademii Medycznej w Białymstoku.
Janica
Jerzy
J
Rydzewska-Dudek
Maria
M
Załuski
Janusz
J
Dopierała
Tomasz
T
Wardaszka
Zofia
Z
Ptaszyńska-Sarosiek
Iwona
I
Okłota
Magdalena
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D049429:Forensic Pathology / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006708:Homicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000401:mortality