Characteristics of Intimate Partner Homicide in China: Compared With Previous Studies in Other Countries

Zhao, Shuang

doi:10.1177/0306624x19856522

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“…In the 1990s, the Chinese Supreme Court began to publicize criminal sentences. In 2014, to promote judicial justice and enhance judicial credibility, the Supreme Court required all criminal sentences to be available online [15], with the exception of cases involving national secrets, juvenile delinquency, and personal privacy. As of January 1, 2023, China Judgments Online has published 12,210,701 criminal sentences.…”

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“…We manually screened court sentence les to identify HS offenders. The les included crime investigation reports; medical examiner reports (injury or autopsy); toxicology reports (of offenders and victims); psychiatric illness and criminal responsibility evaluation reports (when requested by the attorney or defendant); offenders' prior conviction reports; testimonies of witnesses, offenders, and victims (if they survived); and sentence results [15]. We de ned offenders who had attempted suicide as HS offenders, regardless of the time interval between their homicidal and suicidal acts; offenders who only had suicide ideation were excluded.…”

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“…The present study has several limitations. First, it is not clear how many HSs have been disclosed to the public because there was no compulsory requirement for the disclosure of court les before 2014 [15]. This meant that we were unable to calculate the occurrence rate of HSs in China over the past decade.…”

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How Should the Time Interval be Defined in Homicide-Suicide Cases?

Li¹,

Chen²

2023

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Purpose Homicide−suicide behavior ordinarily refers to people who attempt to kill other people then themselves within a week. However, some offenders may have suicide behaviors before or almost simultaneously with homicide acts. The present study aimed to examine the time interval involved in homicide−suicide behavior. Methods Murderers who have attempted suicide or individuals who have attempted murder and suicide are regarded as homicide−suicide offenders. We searched Chinese court documents to identify these individuals. We classified them into five groups: those who attempted suicide more than 24 hours before (T1); within 24 hours before (T2); almost simultaneously (T3); within 24 hours after (T4, reference group); and more than 24 hours after (T5) homicide acts. We used multinomial logistic regressions to compare demographics, methods of homicide and suicide, and risk factors among the five groups. Results A total of 987 offenders were included (T1, 62; T2, 111; T3, 103; T4, 688; T5, 23). T1 (OR, 2.94; p < 0.01), T2 (OR, 1.89; p < 0.05), and T3 (OR, 3.73; p < 0.01) were more likely to be female than T4; T1 (33.9% vs 19.4%) and T5 (65.2% vs 30.4%) were more likely to attack extra-family members than intimate partners; and T1 were more likely to have psychiatric illnesses than T4 (OR, 9.33; p < 0.001). Conclusions If the tendency of attacking intimate partners was set to be the primary inclusion standard of HS, only cases that involved less than one-day intervals between homicidal and suicidal acts could be regarded as homicide−suicide.

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confidence: 99%