Archiv für Kriminologie
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Archiv für Kriminologie · Sep 1998
[Death in the milieu of homeless persons. A comparative retrospective analysis of an autopsy sample of different regional population structures (Middle Hessia/Hamburg)].
For an evaluation concerning different regional population and community characteristics, 23 fatalities of homeless individuals were selected from the current autopsy series of the Institutes of Legal Medicine of Giessen/Germany and Hamburg/Germany from 1990 to 1996. The outcome of this retrospective analysis enables to overcome the deficiency of knowledge of causes, manners and circumstances of death among homeless individuals.