Re: Child Abuse in Sweden- international infant homicide data

[MichaelD55@xxxxxxx]

Good point. Crowding may increase conflict. Dense housing may also correlate 
with poverty and other sources of stress. But, the one open rural area in LA 
County seems to have the highest rate of fatal child abuse. They also have a 
higher rate of methamphetamine abuse rather then the urban cocaine.

Infant Homicide does not seem to be the same as homicide of people 15-24. The 
trends over the years for homicide in general seem more responsive to 
something (the economy?) than trends in people killing their own kids. Even 
international data shows our terrible US homicide rate more even with other 
countries. 

It all deserves study but infants and toddlers are lost in age groupings like 
0-14. The incidence of homicide by age makes a bar chart a bit like a 
parabola with a peak at infancy that is not reached again until the teens.

Where is a web location to find international data on infant homicide?

Michael Durfee

<< In a message dated 3/17/2000 8:32:01 AM Central Standard Time, 
MichaelD55@aol.com writes:

> Most states, including California have a lower rate of infant homicide than 
>  Los Angeles County. Perhaps that is a matter of coding and perhaps cases 
are  
>  generally well managed nationally and internationally. I think most places 
>  miss infant homicide. 

Another hypothesis worth analysis is that high density urban areas really do 
have higher homicide rates, including higher infant homicide rates, compared 
to lower density.  Population density does appear, at least from antidotal 
observation, to be a stressor.