"Gray murder": Characteristics of elderly compared with nonelderly homicide victims in New York City

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1666-1670

  Abrams, Robert C ^a   Leon, Andrew C ^b   Tardiff, Kenneth ^b   Marzuk, Peter M ^b   Sutherland, Kari ^b  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ILLICIT DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; ETHNICITY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; VICTIM; ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ASPHYXIA; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONER; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX RATIO; STAB WOUND; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ASPHYXIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS; CRIME VICTIMS; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 34548498865     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.079806     Document Type: Article

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