Table 2 Places of and motive for injury stratified by the type of instrument used to inflict injury.
From: Forensic characteristics of 4866 violent injury cases in Sichuan Province, China
Blunt | Sharp | Total | P-values | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Places | N = 2830 (percentage of total) | N = 1136 (percentage of total) | 3966 | < 0.001 |
Public area | 2136 (74.1) | 745 (25.9) | 2881 | |
Entertainment area | 250 (58.1) | 180 (41.9) | 430 | |
Personal residence | 275 (65.6) | 144 (34.4) | 419 | |
Other | 154 (72.6) | 58 (27.4) | 212 | |
Wild area | 15 (62.5) | 9 (37.5) | 24 | |
Motive | N = 1791 (percentage of total) | N = 590 (percentage of total) | 2381 | < 0.001 |
Passion | 1544 (77.0) | 460 (23.0) | 2004 | |
Money | 150 (73.9) | 53 (26.1) | 203 | |
Emotion | 24 (45.3) | 29 (54.7) | 53 | |
Revenge | 23 (48.9) | 24 (51.1) | 47 | |
Other | 50 (67.6) | 24 (32.4) | 74 |
