Murder and Medicine: The Lethality of Criminal Assault 1960-1999

Harris, Anthony R.; Thomas, Stephen; Fisher, Gene A.; Hirsch, David J.

doi:10.1177/1088767902006002003

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“…Technological improvements in medical responses are used as explanations for non-fatal victim injury outcomes (see Giacopassi, Sparger, & Stein, 1992;Harris, Thomas, Fisher, & Hirsch, 2002), but measures of medical response characteristics used in this research were mixed and largely unrelated to victim injury severity.…”

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“…In their place, Allen advocated the use of medical trauma-scoring scales. Despite the fact that more recent scholarship has also advocated the use of such scales in criminological analysis (Harris, Thomas, Fisher, & Hirsch, 2002;Safarik & Jarvis, 2005), the majority of studies in this area continue to use injury indicators that Allen (1986) had criticized.…”

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Elaborating the Correlates of Firearm Injury Severity: Combining Criminological and Public Health Concerns

Grommon

Rydberg

2014

Victims & Offenders

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This research addresses recent calls to incorporate multidisciplinary approaches in the study of firearm violence by utilizing an elaborated criminal events perspective to explore the correlates of firearm injury severity. A unique dataset of non-fatal firearm injury data are derived from official police reports, allowing the use of a medically-validated measure of injury trauma in place of more typical injury indicators. The relative and collaborative contributions of criminological and public health indicators for explaining variation in levels of injury severity are assessed. Multinomial logit models suggest that critical injuries are more likely among older victims, victims who knew their assailants, and victims who refused to cooperate with police. Additionally, the likelihood of critical victim injuries decreased as the time to report an incident to the police increased. The strongest correlates were measures of incident circumstances and the number of gunshot wounds a victim received. In all, these results reveal that a combination of measures from both fields is needed to provide a deeper understanding of injury severity outcomes.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Elaborating the Correlates of Firearm Injury Severity: Combining Criminological and Public Health Concerns

Grommon

Rydberg

2014

Victims & Offenders

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“…As Chon puts it, not only do poor countries have higher levels of serious violent crime, there is also on average a higher risk that violent acts in those countries result in the death of the victim in comparison to the same acts committed in Western European countries. In an analysis of homicide trends in the United States between the years 1960 and1999, Harris et al (2002) found indications that development in emergency health care had held back increases in homicide rates in the 1970s and the 1980s. Harris et al argued that if the risk of serious violent crimes resulting in death had not been reduced thanks to better emergency health care, the homicide rate in the United States would have risen in accordance with the sharp increase of registered incidents of aggravated assault during 1960-1999.…”

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Homicide in Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden

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Due to differences in definitions, data sources and criminal justice procedures, comparing homicides between countries is not without problems. To overcome these limitations, we have constructed a joint European Homicide Monitor (EHM). So far, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden constitute the basis of the database. In this contribution, we give an overview of this new data set. In doing so, we elaborate on methodological issues that arose when constructing this data set and discuss the feasibility of constructing an international and comparable homicide data set. Preliminary results show that the EHM as a joint database provides unique opportunities to closely monitor homicide across Europe.

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“…For example, studies have shown that the decline in the murder rate since the 1960s has been partially due to better and more widespread emergency care in the United States. Improvements in emergency services from 1960 to 1999 helped lower the murder rate by 70 percent (Harris et al 2002). By the early 1990s, the decline in the homicide rate as a result of improved EMS provision had been noted in Memphis and other communities (Giacopassi, Sparger, and Stein 1992).…”

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confidence: 99%