National Homicide
Rate Up Among
U.S. Young Men
The homicide rate among young
men in the United States it four to 73
times higher than in other in
dusWalized nations, federal resear
chers have reported.
They said firearms had been used
to Ulrefrfourths of the kiUings in the
United States and in only one-fourth
of thoee overseas.
Researchers at the National Center
for Health Statistics said 4,223
A»«rtcan men from ages IS to 24 had
been killed in 1987, a rate of 21.9 per
100,000.
They said the rate for black men in
that age group was 85.6 per 100,000,
an increase of 40 percent since 1904.
In contrast, the rates in 21 other
countries for men in the samfe age
group ranged from a high of five per
100,000 in Scotland to a low of 0.3 per
100,000 in Austria.
“I knew intuitively that our rates
ware high, but I never dreamed that
they would be so staggering com
pand to other countries or that such
a large percentage would be firearm
related,” said Lois A. Fingerhut, co
author of the study, published last
week in the Journal of the American
Medical Association.
Ms. Fingerhut and her co-author,
Joel C. Kleinman, focused on young
mon because one-fifth of all murders
are in this group and because
homicide is the leading cause of death
among young black men.
The researchers also studied
homicide rates for whites and blacks
in M larger states and found con
siderable variation.
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