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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1973) 123: 295-298. doi: 10.1192/bjp.123.3.295
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Abnormal Homicide in Hong Kong

M. WONG M.B., D.P.M.1 and K. SINGER M.D., F.R.C.P.E., F.R.C.Psych.2

1 Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
2 Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong

This paper reports on a complete sample of 41 abnormal murders that were known to have occurred in Hong Kong from 1961 to 1971. All the known suicide-murders (29) and normal murders (551) during this period were also considered.

The pattern of normal and abnormal homicide resembled that in England and Wales and in Philadelphia in a large number of characteristics. The main difference was quantitative—the high prevalence of normal homicide in Hong Kong. Others included sex differences in homicidal offenders and victims and the mode of inflicting death. The apparently low incidence of depressive homicide is discusssed.

Submitted on August 14, 1972






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