Quantitative analysis of victim demographics and injury characteristics at a metropolitan Medico-Legal Center.
For the timeframe 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.
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University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Institute of Legal Medicine, Butenfeld 34, 22529 Hamburg, Germany. d.seifert@uke.uni-hamburg.de
Lambe
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Anders
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Pueschel
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Heinemann
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011902:Rape / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000453:epidemiology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*