HOMICIDE DURING ROBBERY: A CASE CONTROL STUDY

工作场所的暴力被广泛认为是一个重大的公共卫生问题。在整个1990年代，职业杀人率持续上升，尽管所有主要非故意原因造成的职业死亡率都在下降。大多数职业杀人案是工作场所抢劫或未遂抢劫的结果。这项病例对照研究将重点放在工作场所和工作场所抢劫杀人事件阶段的危险因素上。这项研究将比较导致杀人(案件)的工作场所抢劫和不导致杀人(控制)的抢劫。案件将被定义为北卡罗来纳州1994-99年间因抢劫或企图抢劫而发生的所有职业杀人案，并将通过州法医制度进行鉴定。对于每个案件，将从调查此案的同一执法机构进行的工作场所抢劫调查中选择两个控制措施，而不是导致他杀。将使用北卡罗来纳州调查局维持的统一犯罪报告系统确定控制措施。大约90个病例和180个对照将被纳入这项为期两年半的研究。这项研究将利用和扩展与最近的职业伤害和凶杀研究有关的成功的方法、合作和数据库。这项研究将对我们了解如何最好地减少职业抢劫杀人案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.