HOMICIDE:TRENDS, CAUSES AND PREVENTION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PROFILING HOMICIDE OFFENDERS:TOWARDS A NEW OFFENDER PROFILING MODEL -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Profiling Homicide Offenders: Assumptions, Theories And UnderlyingConcepts -- Criticisms on the Current Offender Profiling Approach -- A New Offender Profiling Model -- METHOD -- Participants -- Procedure -- PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF HOMICIDE OFFENDERS' NARRATIVES -- Time Phases, Situational Characteristics and Behaviors in HomicideOffending -- Determination of Time Phases -- Situational Themes Not Restricted to a Specific Time Block -- The Context of the Violent Act, Including the Far Preamble -- The Preamble of the Violent Act -- The Situation That Preceded the Trigger of the Offense -- The Trigger of the Offense -- The Interaction between the Victim and the Offender -- After the Crime -- Cognitions and Affects in Homicide Offending -- Cognitions in Homicide Offending -- Affects in Homicide Offending -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- HOMICIDAL AND SUICIDAL SHARP FORCEFATALITIES: A STUDY OVER 20 YEARS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS -- 2.1. Generality -- 2.2. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria -- 2.2.1. Inclusion Criteria -- 2.2.2. Exclusion Criteria -- 2.3. Studied Parameters -- 2.3.1. Demographic Parameters -- 2.3.2. Number of Wounds -- 2.3.3. Type of Wounds -- 2.3.4. Anatomical Site of Wounds -- 2.3.5. Bone and Cartilage Wounds -- 2.3.6. Longitudinal Axis of Stab Wounds Located at the Anterior Part of the Trunk -- 2.3.7. Type of Objects Used -- 2.3.7.1. "Non-weapon type objects" -- 2.3.7.2."Weapon type objects" -- 2.3.8. Injury Severity Score (ISS) -- 2.3.8.1. AIS [39] -- 2.3.8.2. ISS [39] -- 2.3.9. Associated Lesions -- 2.3.9.1. Associated Violence Wounds -- 2.3.9.2. Associated Defence Wounds -- 2.3.9.3. Associated Fall Lesions -- 2.3.9.4.Associated Hesitation Wounds.

2.4. Statistical Analysis -- 2.4.1. Uni-Variate Analysis -- 2.4.2. Multi-Variate Analysis -- 3. RESULTS -- 3.1. Population -- 3.2. Uni-Variate Analysis -- 3.2.1. Demographic Parameters -- 3.2.3. Type of Wounds -- 3.2.4. Anatomical Site Of Wounds -- 3.2.5. Bone And Cartilage Wounds -- 3.2.6. Longitudinal Axis of Stab Wounds Located at the Anterior Part of the Trunk -- 3.2.7. Type of Objects Used -- 3.2.8. Injury Severity Score -- 3.2.9. Associated Traumatic Lesions -- 3.3. Multi-Variate Analysis -- 3.3.1. First Multi-Variate Model -- 3.3.2. Second Multi-Variate Model -- 3.3.3. Third Multi-Variate Model -- 3.3.4. Conclusions of the Multi-Variate Analysis -- 4. DISCUSSION -- 4.1. Collection of Data and Bias -- 4.2. Not Studied Parameters -- 4.3. Results -- 4.3.1. Demographic Parameters -- 4.3.2. Number of Wounds -- 4.3.3. Type of Wounds -- 4.3.4. Anatomical Site of Wounds -- 4.3.5. Bone and Cartilage Wounds -- 4.3.6. Longitudinal Axis of Stab Wounds Located at the Anterior Part of the Trunk -- 4.3.7. Type of Objects Used -- 4.3.8. Injury Severity Score -- 4.3.9. Associated Traumatic Lesions -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- HOMICIDE BY MENTALLY DISORDERED OFFENDERSIN ENGLAND AND WALES -- DEFINITION -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- LEGAL CLASSIFICATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES -- Lawful Homicide -- Unlawful Homicide -- Clinical Categories of Homicide -- Murder -- Manslaughter -- Voluntary Manslaughter -- Involuntary Manslaughter -- Infanticide -- AMNESIA -- DRUGS AND ALCOHOL -- CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (INSANITY ANDUNFITNESS TO PLEAD) ACT 1991 -- Homicide Followed by Suicide -- PSYCHODYNAMIC ASPECTS -- TRENDS IN HOMICIDE RATES DUE TO MENTAL DISORDER INENGLAND AND WALES -- HOMICIDE, VIOLENCE AND MENTAL ILLNESS -- Avoidable Deaths - The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide andHomicide by People with Mental Illness, University of Manchester, England.

INQUIRIES INTO HOMICIDES BY PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE IMPACT OF GUN CONTROL ON MURDER ANDSUICIDE IN CANADA -- CANADA VERSUS THE UNITED STATES -- GUN AVAILABILITY IN CANADA -- PROXY MEASURES OF GUN AVAILABILITY -- Suicide -- Homicide -- Armed Robbery -- Accidental Deaths -- BILL C-51 -- Methodologically Sound Research -- Males -- Females -- Suicide -- Provincial Suicide Rates -- Homicide -- Accidental Deaths -- Armed Robbery -- THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GUN CONTROL LAWS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- MASS MURDERER, UNWILLINGEXECUTIONER, OR SOMETHING ELSE: A CASESTUDY OF A SERBIAN SOLDIER -- ABSTRACT -- METHODS -- Data Sources -- Data Analysis -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- HOMICIDE TRENDS IN DELHI, INDIA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MATERIAL AND METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- HOMICIDE AS A SOURCE OF MATERNAL MORTALITYIN THE UNITED STATES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- RECENT DATA, ASCERTAINMENT, AND LIMITATIONS -- ASSOCIATIONS -- Race -- Age -- Pregnancy -- Means -- INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE -- Scope and Associations -- Limitations -- Temporal Aspects -- Means of Evaluation -- PREVENTION OF PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED HOMICIDE -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- THE EFFECT OF MARITAL STATUS ON MALEHOMICIDE VICTIMIZATION:A RACE SPECIFIC ANALYSIS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PREVIOUS RESEARCH -- Ecological Level Research -- Individual Level Research -- Routine Activities and Homicide Victimization -- RACE, MARITAL STATUS, AND HOMICIDE -- METHODOLOGY -- ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- HOMICIDAL CASES BY SHARP FORCE INJURIES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MATERIAL AND METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- Sharp Injuries -- Survival Period -- Weapon -- Post Mortem Imaging Techniques -- Differentiation between Homicide and Suicide -- Domestic Violence.

Post Mortem Sharp Injuries -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- CULPABLE HOMICIDE NOT AMOUNTING TOMURDER AS A CAUSE OF MORTALITY IN THEDISTRICT OF SOUTH CANARA- A SCENARIO FROMSOUTH INDIA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CRIMINAL STATUTES ON HOMICIDE IN INDIA -- AUTHORS' PRESENT STUDY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.