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Associação Brasileira de Psicologia Social
2006
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- HOMICIDE AS A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM IN THE CITY OF CAMPO GRANDE, MATO GROSSO DO SUL, BRAZIL Maria Cristina Abraão Nachif Psicología Violence mortality public health This is a case study of homicides carried out within the Second Section of the Justice Court, in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. It has been observed that: most homicides are carried out by males (95,7%),AfroBrazilians (62,9%), between 15 and 25 years (45,7%), illiterate or with incomplete schooling (74,3%), and unemployed (18,6%). It was also observed that the victims’ profiles are very similar. Most homicides take place on public streets (41,4%), in the city suburbs, between 20 and 24 o’clock, (51,4%). In 50,0% of the cases, the victim did not receive help from any public health service. In the cases where any family member helped (37,41%), the victims were taken to the Santa Casa de Misericórdia Hospital. Firearms were the prevailing weapons (70,0%) and motives for all crimes were futile, or banal; in most cases (57,0%), alcohol was involved. 2006 artículo científico 0102-7182 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=309326327013 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3093 Psicologia & Sociedade application/pdf Associação Brasileira de Psicologia Social Psicologia & Sociedade (Brasil) Num.2 Vol.18