Forensic and criminologic aspects of murder in North-West (Epirus) Greece

Homicide in southern India—A five-year retrospective study

“…It was observed that in 61.86% cases, the act was committed outside the house of the victims. Study conducted on this in Greece [25], and other parts of India [6,12] also found outdoor to be the common place of occurrence similar to our study while studies in Canada [26], USA [27], and Ireland [23] pointed out an indoor occurrence.…”

“…In this era of rising trends of organised crimes being executed in a professional manner, we may expect the occurrence of such criminal activities to follow a pecu-liar pattern in relation to victims, accused, purpose and execution of the crime. Although quite a good number of authoritative works in relation to homicide have already been done in different parts of India [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] and in other countries [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28], only few works have been done from the victims' perspective in this region. The present study has been taken up with an aim to explore different aspects of crime in relation to victims, all possible epidemiologic profile with specific emphasis on the common methods used and causes behind the crime which might pre-empt to initiate preventive measures.…”

Socio-demographic and Mechanical Profiles of Malaysian Male Murderers: a Descriptive Study

“…As for the time settings of murder, the majority of murder occurred between late evening and night time. This similar pattern of time settings was noted in India in which most of the murders occurred during late evening and at night [25][26][27] . However, this observation was in contrast with a Sri Lanka study, where the majority of murders took place during daytime 28 .…”

Elder homicide in the north of Portugal

“…Other studies on elder homicide and homicide in all ages have shown a slight dominance of gunshot wounds as the cause of death. 4,5,11,20,21 Documentation of the instrument used in the assault was not possible due to the absence of data in individual case files. When considering homicide by blunt force, researches have found that most of the victims were males, which were killed by an acquaintance, motivated by conflicts 22 ; in our study, no significant difference was found, related to victim's gender.…”