Too far for comfort? Situational access to emergency medical care and violent assault lethality

IF 3.1 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Crime Science Pub Date : 2020-08-17 DOI:10.1186/s40163-020-00124-7

Lucia Summers, Tiffany Gentry Rogers

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Abstract

This research demonstrates the relationship between situational access to emergency medical care and assault lethality, by comparing attempted and completed murders in Greater London, England, over a five-year period (N = 1512 victims). Access to emergency care was operationalised using the time taken to contact emergency services, the distance from the nearest ambulance station, and the distance to the nearest emergency department. Notification lags in excess of 1 h were associated with significantly higher lethality, after controlling for offence and victim characteristics. The distance predictors were non-significant, which could be due to observed distances in our urban setting being overwhelmingly short (< 5 miles) and homogeneous.

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太远而不舒适？紧急情况下获得紧急医疗救助与暴力袭击的致命性

本研究通过比较英国大伦敦地区五年内未遂和已遂谋杀案（N = 1512 名受害者）的情况，展示了获得紧急医疗护理的情况与袭击致死率之间的关系。获得紧急医疗服务的可操作性包括联系急救服务所需的时间、距离最近的救护站的距离以及距离最近的急诊室的距离。在控制了犯罪和受害者特征之后，通知滞后超过1小时与更高的致死率明显相关。距离预测因子不显著，这可能是由于在我们的城市环境中观察到的距离绝大多数都很短（< 5 英里），而且很均匀。

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来源期刊

Crime Science Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

CiteScore

11.90

自引率

8.20%

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审稿时长

13 weeks

期刊介绍： Crime Science is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal with an applied focus. The journal''s main focus is on research articles and systematic reviews that reflect the growing cooperation among a variety of fields, including environmental criminology, economics, engineering, geography, public health, psychology, statistics and urban planning, on improving the detection, prevention and understanding of crime and disorder. Crime Science will publish theoretical articles that are relevant to the field, for example, approaches that integrate theories from different disciplines. The goal of the journal is to broaden the scientific base for the understanding, analysis and control of crime and disorder. It is aimed at researchers, practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in crime reduction. It will also publish short contributions on timely topics including crime patterns, technological advances for detection and prevention, and analytical techniques, and on the crime reduction applications of research from a wide range of fields. Crime Science publishes research articles, systematic reviews, short contributions and theoretical articles. While Crime Science uses the APA reference style, the journal welcomes submissions using alternative reference styles on a case-by-case basis.