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Universidad Simón Bolívar
2017
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- Descriptive study of autopsies in the Atlantic and Magdalena departments Moises Roberto Mebarak Chams Alberto de Castro Jean David Polo Vargas Mabel Morales Lopez Diego Villabona Juan Carlos Rodriguez Vargas Juan Camilo Tovar Castro Psicología Victim Murder Homicide Colombia Atlántico The present study is aimed to determine some epidemiological aspects related to homicides committed by hired killers with firearms. We conducted a data collection survey of historical records from the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences. The sample (n = 310) is composed of homicide victims in 2007 in the departments of Atlántico and Magdalena. We found that 93.5 % of the victims were male. Most of the victims (38.7 %) were found in the age range between 21 and 30 years old. A high percentage (32.9 %) of the victims were unmarried. The most common racial trait was the “mestizo” (94.2 %). A percentage of 48.4 % of the victims had a height between 161 and 170 cms. The days with higher incidence of killings were Mondays (19 %) and Fridays (18.4 %). The places where most of the murders happened were “in public” places with a percentage of 33.2 %. The most common number of bullet impacts was “2” with a 21.3 %. The most common body region impacted was on the head. Finally the paper presents the findings of the study 2017 artículo científico 0124-0137 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=497555990002 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/4975/497555990002/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/4975/497555990002/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/4975/497555990002/497555990002.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/4975/497555990002/movil en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=4975 Psicogente application/pdf Universidad Simón Bolívar Psicogente (Colombia) Num.37 Vol.20