Homicide pattern among adolescents: A national epidemiological study of child homicide in South Africa

• Shanaaz Mathews ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: shanaaz.mathews@uct.ac.za

  Affiliation Children’s Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4743-3829

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• Naeemah Abrahams ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naeemah Abrahams, Lorna J. Martin, Carl Lombard, Rachel Jewkes

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Gender & Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, The Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences: School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Lorna J. Martin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naeemah Abrahams, Lorna J. Martin, Carl Lombard, Rachel Jewkes

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Forensic Pathology Services, Western Cape and Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Carl Lombard ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naeemah Abrahams, Lorna J. Martin, Carl Lombard, Rachel Jewkes

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biostatics Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Rachel Jewkes

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naeemah Abrahams, Lorna J. Martin, Carl Lombard, Rachel Jewkes

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gender & Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

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