HOMICIDE DURING ROBBERY: A CASE CONTROL STUDY

人们普遍认为，工作场所暴力是一个重大的公共卫生问题。职业凶杀率在整个1990年代持续上升，尽管所有主要非故意原因造成的职业死亡率有所下降。大多数职业杀人是在工作场所抢劫或抢劫未遂的结果。本个案对照研究将集中在工作场所和事件阶段的危险因素的工作场所抢劫-杀人。该研究将比较导致杀人的工作场所抢劫（案件）和不导致杀人的抢劫（对照）。案件将被定义为1994- 1999年期间在北卡罗莱纳州发生的所有因抢劫或抢劫未遂而造成的职业杀人案件，并将通过州法医制度加以查明。对于每个案件，将从调查案件的同一执法机构进行的未导致杀人的工作场所抢劫调查中选择两个对照。控制措施将使用由北卡罗来纳州调查局维护的统一犯罪报告系统来确定。在这项为期2.5年的研究中，将纳入约90例病例和180例对照。本研究将利用和扩展成功的方法、合作和数据库，这些方法、合作和数据库与最近的职业伤害和杀人研究有关。这项研究将对我们了解如何最好地减少职业抢劫杀人的发生率做出重大贡献。

Violence in the workplace is widely recognized as a major public health issue. Occupational homicide rates have continued to rise throughout the 1990s, despite declining rates of occupational death from all major unintentional causes. The majority of occupational homicides are the result of robbery, or attempted robbery, of the workplace. This case-control study will focus on workplace and event-phase risk factors for workplace robbery- homicide. The study will compare workplace robberies which result in homicide (cases) to robberies which do not result in homicide (controls). Cases will be defined as all occupational homicides, as a result of robbery or attempted robbery, in the state of North Carolina for the period 1994-99 and will be identified through the state medical examiner system. For every case, two controls will be selected from investigations of workplace robberies, not resulting in homicide, conducted by the same law enforcement agency that investigated the case. Controls will be identified using the Uniform Crime Reporting System maintained by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Approximately 90 cases and 180 controls will be enrolled in this 2.5 year study. This study will utilize and extend the successful methodologies, collaborations, and databases developed in connection with recent studies of occupational injury and homicide. The study will make a significant contribution to our knowledge about how best to reduce the incidence of occupational robbery-homicide.