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... modus operandi of homicides followed or not by suicide reveals significant differences, especially when they are committed within a couple. Indeed, in these cases, both the method used and the number of victims per incident are significantly related to the suicide of the perpetrator (Table 5). ...Citations
... Homicide-suicide or dyadic death is a special form of fatal violence in which the perpetrator kills his/her sacrifice without permission and generally within a short time or immediately after (within 24 h) the perpetrator enacts suicide but sometimes it takes several days or months. Still, the latest has a rare occurrence [3][4][5]. This is not equal to the pact suicide where two or more individuals conversely agree together about the implementation of the suicide [6]. ...
... Men made up most of the murderers and the victims were mostly women. The most common crime scenes were the killers' or the victims' homes typically in single murders [5,11,12]. ...
... The intimate partner homicide-suicides have the greatest incidence, it is followed by the filicide-suicide when a parent kills his child, and matricide or parricide-suicide when a child takes his mother or father's life. To be involved in this act a wider family relationship is not as frequent nor outside the family sphere [5]. "Adversary" homicide-suicides means when an ex-partner kills the new partner of his/her ex [14]. ...
... The leading causes of homicides were conflicts, divorces, and separations, with men from Russia more likely to have mental disorders. This finding goes in line with the findings of previous studies (Barraclough & Harris, 2002;Larchet et al., 2023;Leung & Joosse, 2023;Moskowitz et al., 2006;Saleva et al., 2007;Schwab-Reese & Peek-Asa, 2019). Also, the high proportion of murders with the help of piercing objects in the Russian Federation coincide in this aspect with studies in which firearms are not found at all (China) (Chan et al., 2003) or are not used so often (England, Wales) (Flynn et al., 2015). ...
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.
