Data collection in Netherlands primarily rests on a national homicide database directed by Paul Niewbeerta. The national homicide database includes information on all homicide incidents occurred in the Netherlands since 1992 (Nieuwbeerta and Leistra 2007). Data sources for this database include both official police and court registrations and files as well as media (news agency and newspaper) reports. Based on these sources, 106 HS events involving 140 deaths took place in the period 1992-2006. All cases involved one perpetrator. In this period, homicide-suicide occurred on average 7 times per year, equivalent to approximately 4% of all homicides per year and 0,5% of all suicides per year. First results from the Dutch part of EHSS – using both national homicide data as well as data obtained from the media – have recently been published (Liem et al., 2007; Liem & Koenraadt 2007).
References
Liem, Marieke C. A. & Koenraadt, Frans (2007). Homicide-suicide in the Netherlands: A study of newspaper reports, 1992 - 2005. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 4, 18(4), 482 - 493
Liem, Marieke, Postulart, Marieke and Nieuwbeerta, Paul (2007) Moord-zelfdoding in Nederland: Een Epidemiologisch Overzicht. Tijdschrift voor Veiligheid, 6, 2, 16-36.
Nieuwbeerta, P.; Leistra, G.
(2007). Dodelijk Geweld. Moord en Doodslag in Nederland. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Balans.
Smit, P.R. & Nieuwbeerta, P. (2007). Moord en doodslag in Nederland 1998 en 2002-2004
(cahier 2007-15) Den Haag: WODC.
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