Strangulation and Suffocation
Strangulation and Suffocation
Strangulation and Suffocation
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<strong>Strangulation</strong> is a Lethality Indicator<br />
• <strong>Strangulation</strong> is more commonly a cause of death<br />
for women than men across the life span<br />
– Age 65 <strong>and</strong> older<br />
• Men 7.0%<br />
• Women 33%<br />
• Studies of women who were victims of intimate<br />
partner strangulation homicide <strong>and</strong> attempted<br />
homicide range from 24% to 62%<br />
– See Glass, Laughon, Campbell, Block, Hanson, Sharps<br />
& Taliaferro (2008)<br />
(c) Dean Hawley <strong>and</strong> C<strong>and</strong>ace Heisler, 2012 26
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