Paulson J A, Rushforth N B
Pediatrics. 1986 Dec;78(6):1013-20.
Death rates from homicide in children younger than 15 years of age in the United States have increased during the last 30 years. Previous studies have suggested a typology consisting of fatal child abuse in young children and community violence in older children. We reviewed the data from the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, coroner's office pertaining to homicides in children less than 15 years of age between 1958 and 1982 and obtained similar findings. The homicide rates for city children increased from 1.1 to 6.7/100,000 in the first 20 years and then stabilized. Nonwhite boys had the highest death rates except in one period. Assailants were usually adolescent and young adult men of the same race; however, 43% of children less than 5 years of age were killed by women. The older the child, the more likely the homicide was to have been committed by a nonrelative, outside of the home, and with a firearm. Overall, firearms are the leading cause of homicide (36.2%). The temporal characteristics of child homicides are also described.
在过去30年中，美国15岁以下儿童的杀人死亡率有所上升。先前的研究提出了一种类型划分，包括幼儿期的致命虐待儿童和大龄儿童的社区暴力。我们回顾了俄亥俄州凯霍加县验尸官办公室提供的1958年至1982年间15岁以下儿童杀人案件的数据，并得到了类似的结果。城市儿童的杀人率在前20年从1.1/10万上升到6.7/10万，然后趋于稳定。除了一个时期外，非白人男孩的死亡率最高。行凶者通常是同种族的青少年和年轻成年男性；然而，5岁以下儿童中有43%是被女性杀害的。儿童年龄越大，杀人行为越有可能由非亲属在家庭外使用枪支实施。总体而言，枪支是杀人的主要原因（36.2%）。本文还描述了儿童杀人案件的时间特征。
