ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 4

Homicide Among Youth and Young Adults, 15 Through 29 Years of Age. A Report of 138 Cases from Paris and Its Suburbs, 1991–1993
Lecomte, D
Director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Paris, 2, place Mazas, 75012 Paris, and professor of forensic sciences, University of Paris V,

Druilhe, L
Assistant in forensic medicine, Institute of Forensic Medicine of Paris,

Fornes, P
Assistant professor of pathology and forensic sciences, and pharmacologist, Faculté de Médecine Cochin Port-Royal, University of Paris V,

(Received 3 May 1995; accepted 5 February 1996)

Abstract

Recent surveys of some metropolitan areas in the United States have shown an increasing death rate as a result of violence among adolescents and young adults. In France, there has been no systematic research into the characteristics of homicide among youth and young adults. We have attempted from autopsy and police records to determine the incidence and the circumstances of homicides in the 15 to 29 age group, in Paris and its suburbs, during the past 3 years.

The main results are as follows:

Keywords:
forensic science, criminalistics, homicide, forensic pathology, epidemiology, Paris, France

Paper ID: JFS14006J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS14006J
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