Abstract：
:The current study describes the incidence and epidemiological characteristics of eldercide (homicides among victims aged 60 years and older) in Johannesburg for the period 2001 to 2010. A retrospective population-based study was conducted on cases drawn from the National Injury Mortality Surveillance System. A total of 557 eldercides were recorded by NIMSS for the study period with an average annual rate of 23.1 per 100 000. The average annual rate for males was 42.4 per 100 000 and 8.9 per 100 000 for females. There was little variation in the rates by race. Eldercide victims were predominantly male (77.4%), black (48.3%) or white (43.2%), and were mainly killed by firearms (44.8%) or the use of blunt force (27.8%), in a private residence (66.0%), on a week day (53.8%) and during the day (56.1%). The study also found that the characteristics of eldercide varied across males and females, and across black and white race groups. The high incidence of eldercides points to the need for interventions that give special attention to the risk configurations and circumstances associated with these violent deaths.
journal_name
J Forensic Leg Medjournal_title
Journal of forensic and legal medicineauthors
Buthelezi S,Swart LA,Seedat Mdoi
10.1016/j.jflm.2017.08.018subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-11-01 00:00:00pages
82-88eissn
1752-928Xissn
1878-7487pii
S1752-928X(17)30132-4journal_volume
52pub_type
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