employee from 01.01.2002 until now
Federal State Budgetary Military Educational Institution of Higher Education "Kirov Military Medical Academy" of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Department of Forensic Medicine and Medical Law, Professor)
employee from 01.01.2002 to 01.01.2026
Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
The article presents the results of the study of suicide risk factors in comparison with murder. The material of the study was the protocols of the examination of the corpse at the scene, the conclusions of the forensic medical expert on the examination of the corpse, medical death certificates. Methods of data grouping, statistical description, calculation of diagnostic coefficients were used. 30 statistically significant (p < 0,05) and at the same time informative differential diagnostic signs were found (the frequency ratio in comparison groups ≥ 2.0). Of these, 22 increase the likelihood of suicide, 8 increase the likelihood of murder. The most significant factors making a diagnostic decision very likely (p ≥ 99,0 %) are hanging (in favor of suicide), strangulation and blunt trauma with hand-held hard objects (in favor of murder). The most characteristic factors making a diagnostic decision highly probable (p = 90-95 %) are death from hypothermia and acute trauma (in favor of murder): poisoning, falling from a great height and the presence of traces of a previously attempted suicide (in favor of suicide). Information is presented on negative signs for different methods of deprivation of life (types of fatal injury), which make it possible to suspect a staged suicide.
VIOLENT DEATH, TYPE OF DEATH, SUICIDE, FORENSIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION, SUICIDE ATTEMPT, RISK FACTORS
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