Factores demográficos, situacionales, conductuales y psicosociales en muertes intencionales asociadas a estupefacientes en Bogotá

The study evaluated a relationship between situational demographic factors, psychosocial factors and behavior; in cases of intentional death for external cause associated to drug abuse in Bogotá. Four groups of variables that were related to each one of the study factors (demographic factor, situational factor, psychological-social-behavior factor, and the fac¬tor of drug presence) were selected to work with. It used a nonanalytic descriptive design, cases series. The sample of 200 murder cases that had related drug abuse was selected at random, from the Medicine Legal Colombian Institute of Pathology Science. The results were analyzed by descriptive statistics and variables associated through Crosstab (Contin¬gency tables) and it found that victim’s average age is 27 years old, mainly male from the lowest socioecomic position. Also, the most frequent situation was the street, the use of a firearm and the hipovolentic shock as a diagnostic of death.

• Autores: Jaimes-Osma, Jesús Enrique
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2001
• Institución: Universidad Católica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RIUCaC - Repositorio U. Católica
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.ucatolica.edu.co:10983/22710
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/10983/22710
• Palabra clave: Muerte por causa externa; Violencia; Homicidio; Abuso de drogas; Psicología legal; Death for external cause; Violence; Homicide; Drug abuse; Legal psychology
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Derechos Reservados - Universidad Católica de Colombia, 2001