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    J Homosex. 1994;26(4):149-74.

    Chicken kills hawk: gay murders during the eighties in Amsterdam.

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    Erasmus University Rotterdam, Section Penal Law and Criminology, The Netherlands.

    Abstract

    A relatively large number of murders in Amsterdam are of older homosexual men. Police records and personality reports by social workers for the decade of the 1980s were investigated and interviews of "potential victims" were conducted in order to study why the crimes were committed. It was found that the murderers were mostly young male prostitutes. The evidence suggests that the motive for such crimes is usually complex and is influenced by the marginal social situation of the two groups involved, in which the lack of emotional and financial support plays a large role.

    PMID:
    8006418
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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