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Article: Massachusetts researchers cite medical care advances in decline in murder rate
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- AP Worldstream
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- August 12, 2002
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Dateline: SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts
Improvements in emergency care over the past 40 years have helped
to dramatically lower the death rate among assault victims by nearly
70 percent and, in the process, decrease the murder rate in the United
States, according to a new study.
"People who would have ended up in morgues 20 years ago, are now simply
treated and released by a hospital, often in a matter of a few days,
" said Anthony R. Harris, a sociology professor at the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst, who headed the statistical study with
Harvard Medical School that looked at crime data from 1960 to 1999.
The study was published in Homicide Studies, an ...