Homicide-Suicide in Russia and Pakistan

Observations From Press Media Reports

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ID13629281
AutoresRameez Ali Mahesar (0000-0003-0921-0701, Iqra University, autor correspondente), А В Голенков (0000-0002-3799-0736, Chuvash State University), Andrei V Golenkov (Chuvash State University), Amna Fazail (0000-0002-1311-4037, Department of Mass Communication, The Women University, Multan, Pakistan), Ahmed Raza Ul Mustafa (0000-0002-7398-2549, Department of Economics, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University (SBBU), Shaheed Benazirabad, Pakistan), П Б Зотов (0000-0002-1826-486X, Tyumen State Medical University), Pavel B Zotov (Tyumen State Medical University), Sheikh Shoib (0000-0002-3739-706X, Independent Researcher, India)
Ano2024
Páginas302228241287850-302228241287850
Data de publicação2024-09-27
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00302228241287850
PMID39332822
OpenAlexW4402907656
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas24

This study compares the features of homicide-suicide in Russia and Pakistan. To understand this, we conducted a content analysis of news reports about homicide-suicide published in Pakistani and Russian newspapers between March 2020 and May 2023. We identified 35 and 104 homicide-suicide cases in Pakistani and Russian media, respectively. Men were three to five times more likely to commit homicide-suicides than women (3.16: 1 in Russia; 4.83: 1 in Pakistan). Accounting for over 65.73% of all homicide-suicides, spousal homicide-suicides and filicide-suicide were the most common homicide-suicides in both regions. Filicide-suicides were more often done by Russian women and extra-family homicide-suicides by Pakistani women. Reasons for homicide-suicides in Pakistani women were divorce or separation and in Russian women - mental disorders. With the difference of homicide in the victims, Pakistani victims were aged 15-30 years, while Russian were 31-45 years and 46 years and older. There were more similarities in homicide-suicides than differences

Criminology · Homicide · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Newspaper · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Demography · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies