Sentences with phrase «victim of homicide»

The vigil will be in memory of victims of homicides, organized as part of the

«Since empirical data suggest that most victims of homicide know their assailants, the higher risk for women strongly indicates domestic violence.»

Every year, Bronx resident Milagros Guzman decorates a Christmas tree she calls the «Tree of Angels,» to remember victims of homicide, including her own daughter, Jessica, who was murdered in 1990.

The new study looked at the relationship between alcohol policies in place and the likelihood of alcohol involvement (either up to the legal limit of 0.08 or above that limit) among the 27,000 victims of homicide from 17 U.S. states between 2003 and 2012.

A teenage boy found dead in a Queens park early this week was a victim of a homicide, cops said Friday — and his distraught relatives believe his death was...

MAYVILLE - Sheriff Joseph A. Gerace announced today the name of the victim of a homicide on Wednesday, October 20, 2014 in the Town of Westfield as 61 - year - old Mary E. Whitaker of 8448 Titus Road in that town and also of New York City.

The authors recommend additional research on linkages between state - level alcohol policies and alcohol - involvement by both perpetrators and victims of homicide.

When firearms were accessible, men were nearly four times more likely to commit suicide than when firearms were not accessible, while women were almost three times more likely to be victims of homicide.

«Our analysis shows that having access to firearms is a significant risk factor for men committing suicide and for women being victims of homicide,» said Andrew Anglemyer, PhD, MPH, an expert in study design and data analytics in Clinical Pharmacy and Global Health Sciences at UCSF, who is also a U.S. Army veteran.

Someone with access to firearms is three times more likely to commit suicide and nearly twice as likely to be the victim of a homicide as someone who does not have access, according to a comprehensive review of the scientific literature conducted by researchers at UC San Francisco.

The researchers found that during the 3 - year study period, 1496 people were victims of homicide, and 6 % (90) of them had been under the care of mental health services in the year before their death.

«Mental health patients more than twice as likely to be victims of homicide than the general public.»

«However, our findings show that specialist mental health providers in England and Wales can expect one of their patients to be the victim of homicide roughly every 2 years.»

Homicides committed by patients with mental illness have received much media attention, but patients» risk of being victims of homicide and their relationship to the perpetrators has rarely been examined.

Patients with mental illness are two and a half times more likely to be victims of homicide than people in the general population, according to a national study examining the characteristics of homicide victims across England and Wales, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal.

This definition includes spouses and children of all victims, mentally or physically incapacitated victims, or victims of homicide.

Homicide is currently the fourth leading cause of fatal occupational injuries across the U.S. Approximately 500 workers a year are the victims of homicide in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are five times more likely to be victims of homicide than other Australian women.

On Aug. 14, my mother, Joan Weigelhofer, was a victim of a homicide.