Shooting through clothing in firearm suicides
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00179906:_____/10:10078988
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Shooting through clothing in firearm suicides
Original language description
There is a longstanding empirical rule that people who commit suicide rarely shoot through their clothing, but rather put it aside to expose the nude skin. Signs of shots through clothing have always been considered suspicious, raising presumptions of the presence of an abettor. Our report, based on a retrospective study of fatal suicidal firearm injuries from the years 1980 to 2007, points out that suicide victims only rarely remove clothing from the site of the future entry wound. The report covered 43 cases with fatal gunshot wounds in the area of the thorax, with only four persons (9%) removing the clothing present in the area of the subsequent self-inflicted wound. Defects present on the clothing of a victim cannot, therefore, be understood as anabsolute criterion for disproving the possibility of suicide, and nor do they necessarily indicate an unfortunate accident or homicide.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EA - Morphology and cytology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2010
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Forensic Sciences
ISSN
0022-1198
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
55
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
3
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000276792700012
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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