title: [Medico-legal and victimology aspects of homicides in the material of Bialystok Institute of Forensic Medicine in the years 1982-2003].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Z Zakładu Medycyny Sadowej Akademii Medycznej w Białymstoku.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Niemcunowicz-Janica
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Janica
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rydzewska-Dudek
authors.forename: Janusz
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Załuski
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dopierała
authors.forename: Zofia
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wardaszka
authors.forename: Iwona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ptaszyńska-Sarosiek
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okłota
mesh_terms: 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