Kitchen knives and homicide: A systematic study of people charged with murder in the Lothian and Borders region of Scotland

SH Kidd; NS Hughes; JHM Crichton

doi:10.1177/0025802413496409

Kitchen knives and homicide: A systematic study of people charged with murder in the Lothian and Borders region of Scotland

SH Kidd, NS Hughes, JHM Crichton

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A recent English study demonstrated high rates of kitchen knife use in homicides by mentally disordered offenders subject to independent inquiries. Everyone accused of homicide in Scotland undergoes psychiatric examination; all such evaluations in a Scottish region between 2006 and 2011 were systematically analysed to identify homicide characteristics. It was hypothesised that kitchen knives would be the commonest sharp instruments used, and would be associated with unplanned domestic homicide against known victims, with no independent association with mental disorder. Kitchen knives were used in 32 of 55 homicides: 94% of 34 sharp object homicides (p?

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	167-173
Number of pages	7
Journal	Medicine, Science and the Law
Volume	54
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0025802413496409
Publication status	Published - 3 Sept 2013

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homicide
kitchen knives
mentally disordered offenders
weapons
Scotland

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